Bushwick-based party collective BangON!, the creators of the most immersive party experiences in this part of the world, has officially outdid themselves with their epic New Year’s Eve party, Time + Space at a secret location in the industrial East Williamsburg

“Where are we going tonight?” is probably the most common question on every Bushwick resident’s mind as the weekend approaches

Last week, Brooklyn mourned the sad news about Williamsburg’s beloved venue, Glasslands closing down and putting on their last show on New Year’s Eve

Photos from MayDay’s Facebook Journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glen Greenwald, together with Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Pointras, spoke to a packed audience Thursday night on the top floor of Bushwick’s Mayday, a newly opened “bar and community space” on Starr street in northern part of the booming North Brooklyn neighborhood. Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty […]

The Hollows founders Piril Gunduz and Jessica Kingdon outside their gallery space. Photo by Alonzo Maciel. Finding The Hollows was not intentional. I was up late one night Craigslist surfing (hey, the “etc” jobs sometimes can be very entertaining to read) when I came across “Seeking Artists for a Permanent Ceiling Piece in Bushwick Art […]

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It seems clear that most artists working in New York City are in a bind

I know it’s summer and everybody likes to think about vacations rather than about work

This is just for you! We rounded up some of our must-see studio picks, including a selection of spaces that appear in this year’s No BS BOS curated guide to the coolest studios, performances, outdoor events and more for Bushwick Open Studios 2014. You can pick up a copy of your own at every good Bushwick business later today! […]

It’s been almost five months since denizens of the city’s creatively entrepreneurial set would trek several blocks east from the Morgan L stop to head to the 3rd Ward space at 195 Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg, to take classes ranging from stop-motion animation to jewelry design

This week’s Listening Party features the Santa Barbara boys Gardens & Villa and their upcoming show  next Tuesday at Music Hall of Williamsburg.  Listening Party is a curated weekly column promoting music discovery and encouraging concert-going. Featuring someone we’ve been jamming out to and we recommend to the masses, each Listening Party artist has an upcoming show at a […]

Six short weeks after Mama Joy’s gave up the ghost, Bunna Café has set up permanent shop at 1084 Flushing Ave

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The neighborhood cried when our favorite source of shrimp and grits, Mama Joy’s announced its closing last month

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

Last Friday, Grace Exhibition Space was overtaken with the infamous, dynamic and always entertaining Non Grata performance group

Art@Renaissance residency takes place in a labyrinth of rooms and corridors, which conjure their former function as a place of life and death

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

After their spectacular summer series of international performance artists, Grace Space has been pretty quiet the last few months

While some may be fearful of things that go bump in the night, we, the residents of Bushwick, know that oftentimes the best things happen after dark

Confrontational and jarring, the artists at once built up notions of the beauty of the body and tore them down on Friday during the third weekend in Grace Exhibition Space’s month-long “Climate Change” series, featuring performance artists from all over the world as part of the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival

This past Friday night, Grace Exhibition Space welcomed La Pocha Nostra to Bushwick, bringing their post-national, apocalyptic, trans-cultural performance with them

Bushwick Open Studios is happening again this year and it feels even more real with the directory of 569 registrants which just went live! You can browse this historically highest number of the registered shows (551 in 2012) as long as you want to, check out your listings, the listings of your friends, conspire, plan, and start getting really excited!!!

This weekend the New Museum celebrated its third year of IDEAS CITY, a collaborative initiative that seeks to use the arts to revitalize urban space as a forum for discussion and culture enrichment

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Interested in spicing up your Sunday night with something totally different that also benefits charity? Look no further than The Painting Takedown presented by Matt Timms

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The gallery of The Active Space is large and unusual

Imagine the unimaginable, the uncomfortable, the unexplainable

For some reason, December is the month for shows

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova