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Into the Wild: Weekend Art Shows Bred For the Inhabitants of Bushwick

Into the Wild: Weekend Art Shows Bred For the Inhabitants of Bushwick

Leave behind your domestic comforts and escape with a group of art shows that have been successfully bred to get along with the neighborhood inhabitants

Calling All Bushwick: Get Awesome BOS14 Exposure in Our Amazing Print Guide!

Calling All Bushwick: Get Awesome BOS14 Exposure in Our Amazing Print Guide!

Dear Bushwick artists, musicians, galleries, businesses & friends! In about two weeks we all will be going mad (with joy, of course) for Bushwick’s best annual event, Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), which is happening on May 30-June 1. Thousands of people will be strolling our beloved neighborhood, and we all know that BOS is Bushwick’s time to shine! Therefore, I am […]

Artist Flashcards: Artist/Scientist Jessica Johnson’s Work is Contagious (Literally)

Artist Flashcards: Artist/Scientist Jessica Johnson’s Work is Contagious (Literally)

Each week Bushwick Daily brings you a new Artist FlashCard introducing an amazing artist living/working/showing in Bushwick who you need to know

This Weekend’s Art Openings Get Straight A’s

This Weekend’s Art Openings Get Straight A’s

Do you miss your good old college days? Wish you could go back to that care free, inspiring lifestyle where your one goal was to soak up all information like an eager, doe-eyed sponge? Well lucky for you, it’s back to school this weekend when it comes to gallery openings in Bushwick. Enjoy a studious […]

Brave Bushwick Art Crit Group Says Hello to Spring with Politics, Poetry, Painting and Erotica

Brave Bushwick Art Crit Group Says Hello to Spring with Politics, Poetry, Painting and Erotica

The Bushwick Art Crit Group (BACG) celebrated its 1 year anniversary in March where we saw brave ranges in sculpture and politics, photography and poetry, painting and erotica, and more. One artist impressed us with a combination of seriousness and playfulness, while another bravely revealed just how much goes on underneath the (canvas) surface.  An inquisitive […]

Making Sense of the Unpredictability of Brian Belott and Matthew Thurber’s “Volatile Vortex of Action”

Making Sense of the Unpredictability of Brian Belott and Matthew Thurber’s “Volatile Vortex of Action”

Performance art is moody, finding its power in a volatile vortex of actions and references on the semiotic scale of art

THRIFT DISCO Brings a Little “Saturday Night Fever” to Bushwick (On a Friday)

THRIFT DISCO Brings a Little “Saturday Night Fever” to Bushwick (On a Friday)

It doesn’t matter if you have two left feet or if your white bellbottomed jumpsuit is stuck at the cleaners – you’ll still be able to get into the groove at the Thrift Disco

Tempting Art Picks for the Weekend

Tempting Art Picks for the Weekend

Might I encounter the rousing side of Bushwick in this weekend’s top art picks? As I share the sexy side of our artsy enclave on this week’s #BushwickDaily Insta-Takeover, I am tempted to untap the sultry, suprising or bravely sensual side of the neighborhood art scene. Whether blatant or subtle, upfront or shyly concealed, I’ll […]

Storytelling through Art: 4 Picks for the Weekend!

Storytelling through Art: 4 Picks for the Weekend!

I find myself on a double narration as I tell my Bushbabies about the story of art ahead of us. From works inspired by the famous musings of authors James Joyce and Dylan Thomas, to pieces that draw literary connections from personal histories and present happenings. You’ll drift off to your dreams as I read […]

And Bushwick Coffee House Became Morgan Town Bar

And Bushwick Coffee House Became Morgan Town Bar

Take a walk down the Morgantown Catwalk

Play and Prosecco at Polly Apfelbaum’s Studio with MasterDabblers

Play and Prosecco at Polly Apfelbaum’s Studio with MasterDabblers

Art today is so much about the process over the product

Bushwick Weekend Guide: February 7-9

Bushwick Weekend Guide: February 7-9

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Bacchae: A Staged Reading Unfolded at Catland

Bacchae: A Staged Reading Unfolded at Catland

Last weekend, a slew of talented young performers convened in the back room of Catland, an occult bookstore in Bushwick, to flex their tragic Greek muscles

Twentysomethings’ Angst at “Actress Fury” at The Bushwick Starr

Twentysomethings’ Angst at “Actress Fury” at The Bushwick Starr

Be twenty something

Conversation of Change: Transitions V.2 at Associated Gallery

Conversation of Change: Transitions V.2 at Associated Gallery

A cozy room houses eight artists of multiple mediums but of similar concerns

Noise, Avant Composition and Artistic Rock at New Ridgewoood Venue, Trans-Pecos

Noise, Avant Composition and Artistic Rock at New Ridgewoood Venue, Trans-Pecos

You may have heard the buzz about new venue, Trans-Pecos, to the neighborhood! The venue is in Ridgewood, located just off the Halsey L train at 915 Wyckoff Avenue, we welcome it with open arms (and ears!)

Prosecco and Cookies: Field Trip to Polly Apfelbaum’s Art Studio

Prosecco and Cookies: Field Trip to Polly Apfelbaum’s Art Studio

With all the gallery openings in Bushwick every week, leaving this art-filled neighborhood is never an easy decision

Vintage Fashion Lovers Have a New Place to Worship

Vintage Fashion Lovers Have a New Place to Worship

Six months ago Brooklyn lost its garage-punk band the K-Holes when their bassist and singer ran off to South Carolina to have a baby, leaving behind former bandmates Sara Villard and Vashti Windish bandless and itching to start on a new creative endeavor

Conscious Art Festival to Inspire Change Is Tonight

Conscious Art Festival to Inspire Change Is Tonight

On Friday from 6PM to 2AM Conscious Arts Festival, an arts festival with the purpose to inspire change, will take place at Brooklyn Fire Proof East

300 Dick Pics in a Gallery: Art or Exploitation?

300 Dick Pics in a Gallery: Art or Exploitation?

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Believe-Zers: Street Style from the Secret Jay Z Concert that Never Was

Believe-Zers: Street Style from the Secret Jay Z Concert that Never Was

By Scarlett North-Cavanaugh and Emilie Ruscoe

Art After the August Full Moon: Sex, Skin & Dance

Art After the August Full Moon: Sex, Skin & Dance

By Dimitrios Manousakis & Katarina Hybenova

Notes from the Scene at Bushwick Block Party 2013

Notes from the Scene at Bushwick Block Party 2013

This past Saturday and for the fourth year running, the Bushwick Block Party took over Morgantown’s Moore Street for a free afternoon and evening of music, skateboarding, dancing, food trucks, drinking and other sweaty fun

Not the Hamptons: Bushwick Art Shows This Weekend

Not the Hamptons: Bushwick Art Shows This Weekend

By Allison Galgiani & Katarina Hybenova

Bushwick Lookbook: Iggy Azalea Obsession

Bushwick Lookbook: Iggy Azalea Obsession

We love a good female MC, and are lucky enough to live in a city that is home to plenty of them

Let’s talk about Fashion and Art at Bushwick Open Studios

Let’s talk about Fashion and Art at Bushwick Open Studios

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#NoBSBOS Guide to the O.G.’s of Bushwick

#NoBSBOS Guide to the O.G.’s of Bushwick

Before Bushwick had New York Times write-ups and citywide acclaim for its art scene, it was a silent, sleeping hub of creative ingenuity

Photography: Embracing Your Identity Through Labels Others Gave You

Photography: Embracing Your Identity Through Labels Others Gave You

Asshole

47 Bushwick and Ridgewood Galleries Will Join the Frieze Craze this Saturday

47 Bushwick and Ridgewood Galleries Will Join the Frieze Craze this Saturday

This Saturday from 6-10PM you have another chance to achieve the impossible – to see (almost) all Bushwick and Ridgewood galleries in one night

Oh Boy! These 7 Art Shows Will Get You Stoked!

Oh Boy! These 7 Art Shows Will Get You Stoked!

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

Do You Like People? Wanna Help Out Silent Barn? Here is How!

Do You Like People? Wanna Help Out Silent Barn? Here is How!

Premier Bushwick DIY venue Silent Barn is looking for some goodwill-capable community-minded souls to assist with a couple of projects they have in the works, and if you like the local music scene and have experience being pleasant with strangers, that could mean YOU!

9 Art Events to Help You Discover Every Corner of Bushwick…and Then Some!

9 Art Events to Help You Discover Every Corner of Bushwick…and Then Some!

Is it just me or has Bushwick gotten bigger? This week Bushwick and its surrounding neighbors are hosting a great number of must-see events that will prove to expand our already well-defined artistic palate

Stepping in the Internet Shit is Inevitable

Stepping in the Internet Shit is Inevitable

Stepping on dog shit is inevitable

Bushwick Painting Takedown- Bob Ross Style!

Bushwick Painting Takedown- Bob Ross Style!

Sunday night 19 artists converged in The Active Space to compete against one another in a Bob Ross landscape painting takedown

Bushwick Gets a Much Needed Art Supply & Shipping Store

Bushwick Gets a Much Needed Art Supply & Shipping Store

Bushwick Art & Shipping Inc