Brokelyn » galleries http://www.brokelyn.com Food, restaurants, shopping and cheap fun on a budget in Brooklyn NYC Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:52:12 +0000 en hourly 1 Starving artists: Feed your own for the holidayshttp://www.brokelyn.com/starving-artists-feed-your-own-for-the-holidays/ http://www.brokelyn.com/starving-artists-feed-your-own-for-the-holidays/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:33:41 +0000 Jonathan Berk http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=32326 Will blog for drinks. There’s no shortage of worthy ways to be charitable this time of year, but you’d be hard-pressed to find another that says “Made for BK” quite like this. Open Source, a Park Slope gallery/creative space, is looking for a few good cooks to staff its

Will blog for drinks.

There’s no shortage of worthy ways to be charitable this time of year, but you’d be hard-pressed to find another that says “Made for BK” quite like this. Open Source, a Park Slope gallery/creative space, is looking for a few good cooks to staff its Open Source Food Kitchen every night in December. For a fourth year, the gallery’s running its month-long free kitchen where a volunteer comes in each night, whips up a meal, and 15-20 starving artists dig in. The site says fellow artists usually don the chef hat, but really, anybody’s welcome to come in and cook.

Requirements for the one-night gig are pretty few: Meals are served between 7 and 9pm and you should plan on something easy to serve, like a “one-pot meal — either a soup or stew which can be served in bowls with bread on the side.” Open Source provides the cookware and utensils and will help with logistics. All you do, they say, is “supply the love” (and, um, the food, lest you want an overly expressive uprising on your hands).

If you’re at all culinarily-inclined, this seems like a cool way to give a little back this holiday season. Also, there seems occasionally to be wine and beer-laden late-night convos. Now, if you’re one of those who’s reading this salivating, rather than planning your menu, the meal is open anyone, but seating is limited to first-come, first-served.

Sign up soon, charitable chefs, because shifts are disappearing fast (the actual holidays at the end of the month are still free, though). And while you’re checking it out, you might as well look at all that art stuff Open Source does the rest of the year.

Open Source Gallery, 306 17th St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves., Park Slope.

]]> http://www.brokelyn.com/starving-artists-feed-your-own-for-the-holidays/feed/ 1 Art me up! A guide to upcoming free art fairshttp://www.brokelyn.com/art-me-up-a-guide-to-free-upcoming-free-art-fairs/ http://www.brokelyn.com/art-me-up-a-guide-to-free-upcoming-free-art-fairs/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 18:10:11 +0000 Karina Briski http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=26429 Bushwick Open Studios returns for its fifth year next month. Photo from 2009 by Flickr's Joann Kim Your warm-weather free music plans may have been paywalled or thrown on the rocks indefinitely, but luckily the chance to view loads of incredible art sans-prix is alive, well, and just building up steam for the [...]]]>

Bushwick Open Studios returns for its fifth year next month. Photo from 2009 by Flickr's Joann Kim

Your warm-weather free music plans may have been paywalled or thrown on the rocks indefinitely, but luckily the chance to view loads of incredible art sans-prix is alive, well, and just building up steam for the spring and summer seasons. Scan through our round-up of coming attractions, get that Dali ‘stache growing, and let your inner arts critic run wild (especially since most of these involve free booze). You can even kick off your warm weather season of arts appreciation tonight with DUMBO’s monthly free gallery walk. 

DUMBO & Culture411’s First Thursday Gallery Walk
First Thursday of each month (today!)
If your commitment to the arts took a wintry nosedive, now’s the time to get back out there. DUMBO’s First Thursday Gallery Walk returns for May with open studios, art from multiple disciplines and free booze from 5:30-8:30pm between Main and Jay Streets.

Atlantic Avenue Art Walk 2011
June 4-5
Atlantic Avenue holds its eighth annual artwalk featuring the work of more than 300 artists. Studios and venues are scattered throughout Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Gowanus and Downtown Brooklyn. Besides the avalanche of art, the weekend also includes live music, public art projects, films, performances and specials at neighborhood bars and restaurants. Curated tours are also offered free of charge. Find more details, lists of participating artists and businesses, and an events schedule and map here.

Bushwick Open Studios ’11
June 3-5
Bushwick’s premiere arts party returns for a fifth year with a promise of more than 500 participating artists taking over the ‘hood’s streets, parks, lofts, roofs, businesses and studios. Last year’s event sprawled across 3 miles of Bushwick and into Williamsburg, Bed-Stuy and Ridgewood and included special events like a Cabaret show, a 17-band music fest, and a panel and open forum on local housing and commercial policy. Updates to the 2011 schedule can be found here.

Brooklyn Museum’s Target’s First Saturday
First Saturday of each month
This month’s First Saturday lineup is nature-themed with live music and dance performances, a documentary screening, gallery talks, interactive art projects, a book reading and open mic session, and a dance party spinning straight-up Brooklyn soul. If you’re starving for a smorgasboard of arts and culture, this afternoon is your fully-loaded fix. See the full schedule and details for free tickets here.

Renegade Craft Fair, via Paul Kieper

Renegade Craft Fair
June 11-12
For an arts experience that turns up the down-home appeal without compromising its uptown vibes, there is the Renegade Craft Fair in Greenpoint’s McCarren Park. The weekend boasts a “best of” list when it comes to local and national DIY and craft artisans. Peruse the stands for inspiration and take a hands-on workshop to test your trad-ey tricks. Get the deets on what else you can expect here.

]]> http://www.brokelyn.com/art-me-up-a-guide-to-free-upcoming-free-art-fairs/feed/ 4 Make the most of this week’s free Verge art fairhttp://www.brokelyn.com/make-the-most-of-this-weeks-free-verge-art-fair/ http://www.brokelyn.com/make-the-most-of-this-weeks-free-verge-art-fair/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:46:20 +0000 Meghan Doherty http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=24890 CEPT, Courtesy Arch402 Gallery, featured in Verge Art Brooklyn Art lovers in the city are going balls-to-the-wall crazy right now for Armory Arts Week and the Armory Show, starting Thursday. The Upper West Side-based Armory Show boasts the finest in 20th and 21st century modern and contemporary art. It also boasts a big [...]]]>

CEPT, Courtesy Arch402 Gallery, featured in Verge Art Brooklyn

Art lovers in the city are going balls-to-the-wall crazy right now for Armory Arts Week and the Armory Show, starting Thursday. The Upper West Side-based Armory Show boasts the finest in 20th and 21st century modern and contemporary art. It also boasts a big price tag: $30. Lucky for you, you don’t have to travel to Manhattan to get your art on this year. To coincide with the Armory Show, Verge (of Art Basel and Miami satellite fair fame) started it’s own hubbub, made it free, and shifted focus to artists living today. Verge Art Brooklyn runs Thursday to Sunday, featuring nine locations in DUMBO, 70 gallery exhibitors, 40 art project spaces, and 50 finalists in the Tomorrow Stars open call exhibition. Did I mention that it’s all free? Event details and map, below to help you maximize the free artness.

The events are open to the public from noon until 10pm Thursday until Saturday, and noon until 6pm on Sunday.

Gallery exhibitors
81 Front St., and One Main St. (Ground Floors)
The gallery exhibitors spaces are the main attraction of Art Brooklyn. Galleries representing artists from New York, London, Tokyo, Chicago and Seoul, hand picked their best work for your viewing pleasure. Being that it is in such a large space, the works will be displayed like a gallery, unlike the Manhattan booth format.

Artist’s project spaces
55 Washington St., Fourth Floor
These are the spaces the artists rented for themselves. If you are actually looking to buy some art, you will most likely find the most affordable work here. Since the artist is renting the space and is selling their work directly to you, you will avoid any agent or gallery fees.

Artist’s open call exhibition: The best of Brooklyn
20 Jay St., Third Floor
This exhibit features finalists that were selected from the Tomorrow Stars open call by a panel of judges. Each finalist will show one piece from their submission to “represents the brightest and best Brooklyn has to offer.” Latch on to the one you like, make posters in support, and cry when they get kicked off.

Brooklyn Art Now: Survey Exhibition
111 Front Street, Second Floor
Curated by Loren J. Munk/James Kalm, this exhibit showcases 40 local artisits represented by Brooklyn galleries. Loren Munk/James Kalm is a painter/vlogger/art scene historian that bikes around New York City with his camera in hand, to document gallery openings. Local artists, vlogging and bike enthusiasm!

If that’s not enough art for you, you can check out Armory Week’s Brooklyn Night all over Williamsburg. After that, you can go back to doodling stick figures and that middle school “S” in the margins of your notebook.

map via Verge art Brooklyn

 



]]> http://www.brokelyn.com/make-the-most-of-this-weeks-free-verge-art-fair/feed/ 1 Reserve now: five free art tours of Brooklyn this weekendhttp://www.brokelyn.com/reserve-now-five-free-art-tours-of-brooklyn-this-weekend/ http://www.brokelyn.com/reserve-now-five-free-art-tours-of-brooklyn-this-weekend/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:44:48 +0000 Trevor Dye http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=10705 The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. It’s only Monday, but we wanted to tell you about a Brooklyn-wide gallery hop that Marty Markowitz has put together for this weekend. Five free buses will be doing loops around our artiest neighborhoods (Bay Ridge? OK cool), every hour on the hour from 1 to 6, on [...]]]> On the tour: the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.

The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.

It’s only Monday, but we wanted to tell you about a Brooklyn-wide gallery hop that Marty Markowitz has put together for this weekend. Five free buses will be doing loops around our artiest neighborhoods (Bay Ridge? OK cool), every hour on the hour from 1 to 6, on Saturday or Sunday, depending upon which area you’re browsing. Bring your wallet, if there’s anything in it, because docents will be stationed at the galleries and along the bus rides dispensing art-buying advice. See below for pickup spots, and make your reservations now—they want people to RSVP to this thing in advance or you might have to hoof it. Register by phone at 718-802-3530 or email smart@visitbrooklyn.org. You have to give your name, phone number or email, and specify which hub and time you want. You can only make reservations for two people at a time. 

BLUE LOOP (Saturday) Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint. Hub: Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, 135 Broadway (at Bedford)

RED LOOP (Saturday) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene. Hub: MoCADA, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, 80 Hanson Pl. (at South Portland)

GOLD LOOP (Sunday) Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Red Hook. Hub: Brooklyn Borough Hall/Tourism Visitors Center, 209 Joralemon St. (Between Court and Adams)

GREEN LOOP (Sunday) Boerum Hill, Gowanus, Park Slope. Hub: Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Ave. (at President)

TOUR OF FOUR (Sunday) Not a loop, but a four-hour tour of Bay Ridge, Crown Heights, Sunset Park. Hub: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway (at Washington)

For the full list of participating galleries, click here to download the smART Gallery Tour PDF from VisitBrooklyn.

]]> http://www.brokelyn.com/reserve-now-five-free-art-tours-of-brooklyn-this-weekend/feed/ 3 Brokelyn-approved weekend events: art prowls, craft fair, r-word survivalhttp://www.brokelyn.com/brokelyn-approved-weekend-events-art-prowls-craft-fair-r-word-survival/ http://www.brokelyn.com/brokelyn-approved-weekend-events-art-prowls-craft-fair-r-word-survival/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:25:08 +0000 Gretchen Muller http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=1836 Hannah Mishin (That girl’s on a mission!) along with work presented by 249 other galleries and artists. Open [...]]]> picture-115If it’s spring in Brooklyn, there must be an open-studio event somewhere. This weekend there are two: an art crawl in Bushwick, where you’ll see the likes of this elegantly twisted painting from Hannah Mishin (That girl’s on a mission!) along with work presented by 249 other galleries and artists. Open studios are tomorrow and Sunday from noon to 7. Get more info and a downloadable map here. Then there’s the Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk, with loads of artists and deals at 35 area restaurants. From 1 to 6 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday.

We’re going to bring our hand-knit dog bonnets to commune with the Etsy-istas (seemingly everyone in Brooklyn these days) at the Renegade Craft Fair, tomorrow and Sunday from 11 to 7 at McCarren Park in Williamsburg.

Finally, there’s a Recession Survival Fair, where you can get all kinds of helpful information about surviving that pesky global financial meltdown we try not to dwell on too much around here. (If you like to dwell on it, however, may we recommend the fine site, Recessionwire.com.) The r-word fair is sponsored by Brooklyn for Barack along with the Stuyvesant Heights Parents Association, Saturday from 11 to 4 at the Brooklyn Brownstone School, 272 MacDonough St. at Lewis Ave. in  Bed-Stuy.

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