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Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) |
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Wide Open
First Annual National Juried Art Show opens Saturday, March 13, 2010, through March 28th, weekends, 1-6PM
The prestigious independent jurors, including Anne Strauss, Associate Curator of 19th Century and Contemporary Art at the Met, selected the pieces out of close to 1600 submissions.
$1750 in prizes will be awarded at the ceremony on March 13, including the $1,000 Best in Show to Leah Yerpe (of Brooklyn!), for her astonishing drawing Revelation. The $500 Curator’s Choice will be announced at the ceremony along with the $250 People’s Choice - so gallery visitors are invited to come and put in their two cents
BWAC is a truly unique gallery – a massive Civil War-era warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront. Its enormous space affords us the opportunity to exhibit some really huge work. BWAC will be using 8,000 square feet to exhibit 147 pieces, some monumental in size, from artists around the country
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Muriel Guépin Gallery |
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Current Group Show Featuring the Artwork of: Arpie Gennetian Najarian, Michiyo Ihara, Joan Lurie & Paula Overbay
New Group Show - Opening Reception March 5, 2010 from 6 - 9 pm.: celebrate the opening of a new group show featuring artworks by Elizabeth Duffy, Inger Grytting, and Anne Mourier Attal.
Obsession, repetition, transcendence and a reliance on materials often taken for granted feature prominently in these artists' work. Elizabeth Duffy creates installations and collages with often overlooked materials: notebook reinforcement labels, security envelopes, and paper maps. In graphite on paper, Inger Grytting draws layers of fine lines, which form densely constructed patterns. She describes her work as visual diary entries of psychological states. Anne Mourier Attal, a photographer and mixed media artist, is exhibiting a series of photographic diptychs called "The Little Signs," which look like paintings made with light.
Muriel Guépin Gallery is located at 47 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201; 1.718.858.4535 |
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Brooklyn Heights Association |
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Celebrates 100th Anniversary With Year-Long Event Series
The Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA) turns 100 this year and, to celebrate a successful century of service to the Brooklyn Heights community, it will be hosting a series of events all year long. The anniversary will be commemorated with film festivals, concerts, stoop sales, community picnics, walking tours, exhibitions, and readings - all highlighting the people, sites, and culture that make Brooklyn Heights so remarkable.
'CELEBRATING A CENTURY' EVENT! Brooklyn in Prints: A Special Gathering
Reception & Gallery Talk Friday, Feb. 26, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Admission: $15; BHA and BHS Members: $10.
Exhibition continues through March 14 at The Brooklyn Historical Society, located at 128 Pierrepont Street at Clinton Street
Phone: 718-222-4111 Fax: 718-222-3794
In celebration of the Brooklyn Heights Association's centennial, the Old Print Shop has curated a unique exhibition of rare and unusual images of Brooklyn from farmland days to the 21st Century.
Prints will be available for sale, with proceeds to benefit the BHS and the BHA. |
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Dumbo Arts Center |
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BATTLEFIELDS: A solo exhibition by NEBOJSA SERIC-SHOBA
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 6, 2010, 6-9 PM
Exhibition Dates: March 6 - April 25, 2010; Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12-6 PM
Taken over a 10 year period (from 1999 to 2009), the featured works, documentations of actual battlefields, call into question the autonomy of “place”: the disparity that exists between historical events and the geographic locations in which they occur. Apart from the occasional historic marker or didactic memorial plaque, little visual evidence remains to distinguish one site from another, a disconnect that evokes the transient nature of history, the arbitrary lines of the battlefield and the universality of the theaters of war.
Conscripted to fight in defense of his hometown of Sarajevo during the Bosnian civil war, (1992 – 1995), Nebojša Šerić-Shoba served the majority of his military mandate digging trenches amidst the bodies that littered the battlefield. It is from these wartime experiences that the artist developed a profound sense of distrust for a political machine that saw neighbors taking aim at neighbors, firing across seemingly arbitrary lines of demarcation. Eventually this experience led him to the sober realization that the “history of the human race… can be seen as a history of conflicts,” the majority of which “are destined to be forgotten, buried beneath the surface of history.”
The artist’s subsequent travels found him photographing numerous battlefields, including those at Waterloo, Gallipoli, Troy, Verdun, Normandy, Istanbul, Gettysburg and Kursk. The majority of these sites now see few visitors, and those that do serve primarily as tourist attractions for the morbidly-inclined, visiting only briefly in an attempt to capture the remnants of a history that has long since departed.
The exhibition, Battlefields, features The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776 (2009). Also known as The Battle of Long Island, It was the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War. Tellingly, the current riverside park lying opposite the DAC building marks the actual point of retreat of George Washington and his newly-conscripted Army, a fitting link between past and present at this historic Brooklyn location. The immediate aftermath of this pivotal battle, after which the British held New York City for the remainder of the war, was the burning of nearly a quarter of the city's buildings.
Located at 30 Washington Street in DUMBO. For directions visit http://www.dumboartscenter.org |
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden |
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Cherry Blossoms Ahead!
Mark your calendars for Hanami: Celebrating the Cherry Blossom-Viewing Season at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, April 3–May 2, 2010, ending with the Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival on
Saturday, May 1–Sunday, May 2 from 10 a.m.–7 p.m. More news to come!
More than 100 years ago, Brooklyn Botanic Garden's founders envisioned the transformation of a barren city ash dump into a premier botanic garden in the heart of Brooklyn. Since it opened its gates to the public, the Garden has been an urban oasis for all who have entered: Visitors come to be surrounded by beauty, explore the world of plants, and simply experience a few moments of tranquility amid the city's bustle.
1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 • For directions to BBG, Click this link. |
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Kris Graves Projects |
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Greg Miller and Ruben Natal-San Miguel
GREG MILLER - NASHVILLE and RUBEN NATAL-SAN MIGUEL - NY, NY: Concrete Jungle
March 4 - April 10, 2010; OPENING: Thursday, March 4, 6 - 9:00pm
solo exhibition of photographer Greg Miller’s series Nashville. Curated by Kris Graves.
Greg Miller returned to Nashville, Tennessee in 2008 after receiving the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in order to re-examine his hometown. Nashville looks at spaces and locations relevant to Miller’s childhood, from his grandmother’s home to the different neighborhoods where he lived. Miller attempts to reconstruct his past, searching for the city he once knew, amidst that which has inevitably changed. Casting strangers as characters from faded memories allows him to rediscover his past while moving forward to new narratives.
the first exhibition, by photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel, curated by world renowned photographer Matthew Pillsbury.
The show, NY, NY: The Concrete Jungle is a culmination of a 5-year long survey project. Like an explorer trekking into unknown regions of the “Jungle” streets of New York City, photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel travels in the footsteps of visionary photographers such as the likes of Helen Levitt, Bruce Davidson, Louis Faurer, and Robert Frank.
111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 212-796-7558 Directions: http://krisgravesprojects.com/ |
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Brooklyn Museum presents |
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To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
February 12 through May 2, 2010
Through more than one hundred objects drawn from the Brooklyn Museum's world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art, including some of the greatest masterworks of the Egyptian artistic heritage, To Live Forever explores the Egyptians' beliefs about life and death and the afterlife, the process of mummification, the conduct of a funeral, and the different types of tombs-answering questions at the core of the public's fascination with ancient Egypt. The exhibition will be on view February 12 through May 2, 2010.
To Live Forever features objects that illustrate a range of strategies the ancient Egyptians developed to defeat death. It examines mummification and the rituals performed in the tomb to assist the deceased in defying death, and reveals what the Egyptians believed they would find in the next world. In addition, the exhibition contrasts how the rich and the poor prepared for the hereafter. The economics of the funeral are examined, including how the poor tried to imitate the costly appearance of the grave goods of the rich in order to ensure a better place in the afterlife.
Each section of the exhibition contains funeral equipment for the rich, the middle class, and the poor. The visitor will be able to compare finely painted wood and stone coffins made for the rich with the clay coffins the poor made for themselves, masterfully worked granite vessels with clay vessels painted to imitate granite, and gold jewelry created for the nobles with faience amulets fashioned from a man-made turquoise substitute. Objects on view include the Bird Lady--one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history and a signature Brooklyn Museum object; a painted limestone relief of Queen Neferu; a gilded, glass, and faience mummy cartonnage of a woman; the elaborately painted shroud of Neferhotep; a gilded mummy mask of a man, and a gold amulet representing the human soul.
Brooklyn Museum | 200 Eastern Parkway | Brooklyn | NY | 11238 For Directions and Hours, visit brooklynmuseum.org
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THE GALLERY PLAYERS |
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Arthur Millers’ classic The Crucible
After selling out NYC’s first revival of Caroline, or Change this winter, The Gallery Players is proud to open the spring with Arthur Millers’ classic The Crucible. Directed by The Gallery Players’ Artistic Director Heather Siobhan Curran, the 1953 Tony Award winner for Best Play opens Saturday, March 20 2010.
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has been called, "A powerful drama," By NY Times, "Strongly written," by NY Daily News, and comes to The Gallery Players’ stage for the first time in its 43-year history March 20-April 4th 2010. This exciting drama is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. The story focuses on John Proctor, a farmer, and Abigail Williams, the young servant-girl who maliciously accuses Proctor's wife Elizabeth of witchcraft. Proctor brings Abigail to court to admit the lie—and it is here that a monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted. Proctor, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror that Miller uses to reflect the anti-Communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States.
The Crucible opens Saturday, March 20, 2010 and runs Thursdays, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm & 8pm and Sundays at 3pm through April 4, 2010.
The Gallery Players is located at 199 14th St., between 4th and 5th Aves. in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Take the F Train to 4th Ave. or the R Train to 9th Street. By car: BQE to Hamilton Avenue to 14th Street. |
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BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM |
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WOMEN'S HISTORY, SCIENCE, DR. SEUSS' 106th Birthday and MORE!
Visiting exhibition: Tales from the Land of Gullah - January 30 – May 2, 2010
Step into the world of the Gullah people—West African slaves brought to plantations on isolated islands off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina in the 17th century—and discover the how they held on to their songs, stories, and customs. Find out about the common nursery rhymes children’s songs like “Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore” the Gullah gave to American culture, learn to tell Gullah time, go fish netting with a Gullah fisherman, cook a Gullah meal, and much more.
MetLife Early Learner Performance Series: Xoregos Performance Company
Saturday, March 20, 1:00-1:30pm -- In honor of Woman’s History, enjoy two short plays by female writers Grace Cavalieri and Zora Neale Hurston. This amazing cast of five also includes a very talented 10-year-old. Sit back, relax and enjoy! All Ages
Spend your “Spring Break” at Brooklyn Children’s Museum and participate in a Museum wide spring festival of special programs, family fun, and extended hours from 10am to 5pm each day from Saturday, March 27, through Tuesday, April 6. During these 11 days off from school, the Museum’s Spring Break will offer different programs highlighting the spring season; the animals and plants in the world around us; and our role in using, reusing, and conserving natural resources! With activities that explore art, architecture, culture and science, as part of our “green” theme, New York City’s first green Museum is definitely the place to be.
Top Secret: Mission Toy continues. Visitors will enter a secret research and experimentation facility, the “Toy Central” headquarters of a global toy conglomerate.
Their mission—should they choose to accept it—is to use their investigative skills to check out toys from around the world and put their imaginations to work in designing new playthings.
The lively, colorful environment is inspired by, and in part spoofs, the language and style of the popular genre of spy films, books, and television programs. Activities are designed to highlight the universality of play and toys in childhood around the world, as well as to highlight (perhaps more for the benefit of grown-ups) that toys help develop skills.
BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM is located next to beautiful Brower Park, just one mile from Grand Army Plaza, in the Heart of Brooklyn cultural hub. 145 Brooklyn Avenue (at St. Marks Avenue), Brooklyn, NY 11213 |
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Old Stone House of Brooklyn |
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The Old Stone House is a modern reconstruction of the Vechte-Cortelyou House, a 1699 Dutch stone farmhouse with important ties to American history. Today, the Old Stone House is operated as a historic interpretive center dedicated to its crucial role in the American Revolution and in the evolving histories of Brooklyn, New York and the United States.
3rd Street @ 5th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Site-specific two week run: THE CRUCIBLE, Arthur Miller
Directed by Claire Beckman
Thursday March 4 through Sunday March 14
Tickets: $18
Craft Saturdays @ OSH: Knitting
March 27, 4 pm – 6 pm: Textile artist Miranda Knutsen leads a hands-on workshop for ages 14 and up. Learn to knit a simple scarf using big needles. $25 per person. Reservations required by Monday, March 22. 718-768-3195.
Brooklyn Bike Jumble
Sunday, May 16, 10 am – 4 pm: Organized by NY Bike Jumble; Get ready for summer biking at this flea market packed with custom and used bikes, bike parts and cool accessories. Free. JJ Byrne Playground Area/4th Street Sidewalk. Go to www.nybikejumble.com for up to the minute info! or call 718-768-3195. |
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Brooklyn Historical Society |
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The newly refurbished Brooklyn Historical Society presents exhibitions at their National Historic Landmark building on Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights.
Counter/Culture – The Disappearing Face of Brooklyn’s Storefronts
Brooklyn’s neighborhood storefronts have the city’s history etched in their facades. Each store is as unique as the customers they serve and are run by owners who share a commitment to provide a special service. Many shops are lifelines for their communities, vital to the residents who depend on them for a multitude of needs. Yet such shops are disappearing on a daily basis as their neighborhoods rapidly change. Photographer-curators James and Karla Murray have scoured Brooklyn to observe “mom and pop” businesses from humble neighborhood stores tucked away on narrow side streets to well-known institutions on historic avenues.
In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans
Ongoing
With the use of oral histories, portraits, and personal artifacts this audio installation explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the lives of Brooklyn’s diverse residents, from the first person perspective. “Meeting” eight people who were touched by the Vietnam War, visitors are prompted to consider the on-going impact of the Vietnam War in the lives of Brooklynites, from their memories of the war to how it affects them today.
From portrait to portrait, from person to person, from personal narrative to personal narrative, a meta-narrative slowly emerges in which we empathize with the stories of the men and women who confront the chaos of an historical period, and share their, memories, and understanding of the history through which they lived.
We are pleased to host a twice-monthly Oral History Open House where interviewers will be ready to collect your memories of the Vietnam Era. All of the interviews will be archived in the BHS collection. Please Email us to schedule an interview.
To Learn More, visit www.brooklynhistory.org |
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