Choko Round Two is On Me Each week Bushwick Daily brings you a new Artist FlashCard introducing an amazing artist living/working/showing in Bushwick who you need to know. Featuring both new and old faces, our goal is to encourage the growth of art scene and to appreciate wonderful talent in our hood! If you know of an artist you would […]

Beat Nite 10 boasted an artful evening any art lover would envy

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Pop Art-Star Andy Warhol rejoiced the aesthetic value of commodities

Art today is so much about the process over the product

From winter wonderland to icy cold, to FML it’s fuhreezing, this week’s cold snap has been like that annoying houseguest that just won’t leave

Here we are two days into the ripe, unspoiled year of 2014 and we hope it is treating you well thus far! While we recover from the festivities that brought us into this shiny new year, we sing the auld lang syne in hopes of wonderful new beginnings

Seated by owner Giorgio Voglino at the bar, we took off our heavy coats welcoming the heat coming from an open oven in the back corner

I found out that a lot of Bushwick art people were going down to Miami last week, and I know this sounds crazy, but I felt like it was up to me to see that nothing bad happened to them

While stories from the comedic to scandalous are whizzing around the art world a week after the Miami Art Basel Spring Break of the art world (and artists and gallerists alike continue to nurse epic hangovers), one would think that this would send the New York art world into a full-on art coma

The first thing that caught my eye as I entered Twice Removed , the multimedia exhibition at the Active Space, was a group of people aiming their smartphones at sculptures and drawings along the gallery walls

This week the Bushwick art scene settles down slightly, giving us a little bit of a breather after the nonstop openings and art crawls of the fall

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall – HUH!  -Mos Def, “Hip Hop” (1999)

This past Monday night NURTUREart held their annual benefit, where a varied mix of painting, sculpture, collage and drawings covered the walls, and collectors and critics mixed with teenagers with art school ambitions

Brace yourselves, kids

Most of you are probably already aware that New York’s favorite disgruntled art critic, Jerry Saltz, spent last Sunday afternoon checking out the Bushwick gallery scene

This weekend, the September Equinox is upon us, shifting the seasons and bringing us into a new autumn season

It takes courage to make it through a busy Saturday night at the studio building 17-17 Troutman. A veritable maze of corridors where every door you open could take you down the next rabbit hole, the building houses several galleries as well as a number of artist studios, a print lab, and even a chocolatier’s […]

The air was literally buzzing with anticipation this past Friday and Saturday night, as a brand new fall art season kicked off with dozens of exhibition openings at the 56 Bogart building and other art venues all over Bushwick

Now is the winter of our discontent

Erin Gabriella began making wedding dresses for Barbie when she was five, and she has never stopped

BUSHWICK SAYS…is back but with fewer words

Although we do not encourage the use of illegal drugs, sometimes mistakes happen and things slip under your tongue

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While the entire art scene in Bushwick continues to explode, there are several artists that have gained a reputation in the neighborhood as well as beyond

This past March, Bushwick Art Crit Group had its inaugural meeting led by local artist and organizer Christopher Stout in the gallery of Brooklyn Fire Proof East

With Bushwick Open Studios a mere 10 days away, many galleries are preparing for openings set for that wild weekend

Alex Trema1 In the next few days, you might encounter a piece of paper taped to a wall with the inscription “Take me, free piece of art inside” somewhere around Bushwick. Well, you should take it. Inside is artwork by Alex Trema, a French street artist who is in town for a few days. When […]

Happy HAPPY Friday!!!  Here are the highlights of this weeks happenings from the Arts in Bushwick blog!

The art scene in Bushwick is as unique and diverse as its residents

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I weaved my way to the entrance, the lower level of a residential apartment building, trying not to step on the massive yellow lab standing sentinel at the front door

There is nothing wrong with spending half a day shamelessly indulging yourself with art, wandering and experiencing

You make an eye contact with the person passing by