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If you’re an artist with a studio in the Park Slope/Windsor Terrace area, you can get in touch now about being part of an open studio tour happening in November. The Park Slope/Windsor Terrace Artists is holding its annual open studio tour [http://parkslopewindsorterraceartists.wordpress.com/2014/
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Washington Cemetery, BensonhurstThere are few sights as comforting to the homesick Brooklyn native as the borough’s skyline whizzing by as you sit aboard an elevated subway, looking down on your domain. Yet, despite the sense of place it delivers, it’s not an often celebrated view, perhaps easily taken
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Are you an artist with a love of Gowanus? Then you’re in luck, because a couple of upcoming exhibitions are currently accepting submissions: Current: Gowanus [http://artsgowanus.org/current-gowanus] Show dates: May 14-18 Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, April 1 About the show: Arts Gowanus presents this art exhibition and
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Housewarming: Notions of Home from the End of the Universe [http://bricartsmedia.org/events/housewarming-notions-of-home-from-the-center-of-the-universe] , the inaugural show at BRIC House [http://bricartsmedia.org/about/bric-house] (647 Fulton Street, enter on Rockwell Place) which includes work by neighbors Njideka Akunyili [http://njidekaakunyili.com/] and Garry Nichols [http://garrynichols.com] as
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On Saturday, October 19 and Sunday, October 20 from 12-6pm, you can see pieces from more than 200 artists while exploring their workspaces during the annual Gowanus Open Studios [http://artsgowanus.org/], which includes spaces from Smith Street to 5th Avenue, and from Bergen Street to 13th Street. Overwhelmed by
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Photo Courtesy of Kathleen HigginsThe 23rd annual Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest kicks off this Saturday, pitting amateur artists in a contest to create the most imaginative sculptures possible. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/coney-island-sand-sculpting-contest-week-article-1.1420662] that the contest is drawing contestants from
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Roz Cohen with a portrait of her late husband, Norman.Coney Island Hospital (2601 Ocean Parkway) and the Brooklyn Streetcar Artists’ Group dedicated a new exhibit space in the hospital to the memory of Norman Cohen, the late husband of Councilman Domenic Recchia staffer Roz Cohen. Cohen, 83, passed away
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If you were wandering the neighborhood during the GO open studios [/blog/art-music/the-open-corner-reminder-go-open-studios-this-weekend] in September, you may have found yourself at a studio on Argyle Road belonging to the talented local artist Eric Pesso [http://www.flatbushartists.org/EricPesso.htm]. A mathematician and a computer programmer by trade, Eric
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Tae Won Yu, photo by Gail O’Hara of Chickfactor [http://chickfactor.com/] The man sitting to your left at Sycamore might be an an artist for Radiolab [http://www.radiolab.org/] and the woman to your right might draw covers for Marvel [marvel.com]. There goes the guitarist for
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwV9k27g1M] When I was walking around a mall in South Korea last year, there were a lot of digital camera salesmen. They didn’t speak any English, but seeing how my girlfriend and I were as white as can be, they knew we
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This fall, you can open your art studio for GO [/blog/art-music/open-your-studio-you-might-get-a-show-at-the-brooklyn-museum] and then possibly end up in a show at the Brooklyn Museum. But you’ve only got until Friday, June 28 to register your studio [http://www.gobrooklynart.org/participate/artists]! If you’ve had any questions
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The Brooklyn Streetcar Artists’ Group [/tag/brooklyn-streetcar-artists-group/] launched a free program this week for troubled youths who have been arrested due to minor offences and for students on probation, with the hopes of nurturing their creativity and helping rehabilitate them. The program builds on the group’s mission to “promote