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Over 500 Students Paint New South Williamsburg Mural

“Nature Celebration” mural by SARF, PS 257, and other community members. Courtesy of SARF.SOUTH WILLIAMSBURG – A mural painted by the Brooklyn community and PS 257 was completed at 46 Graham Avenue over an October weekend [/community-mural-williamsburg/], all curated by the non-profit Sacred Arts Research Foundation (SARF) [http://www.sacredartsresearch.

Arts & Culture

BPL Debuts 7 New Murals By Award-Winning Children’s Book Artists

PROSPECT HEIGHTS – On Monday, the Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) Central Branch celebrated a series of new murals in the youth wing created by seven renowned children’s book illustrators. L-R: Children’s book illustrators/authors Javaka Steptoe, Sophie Blackall, Christopher Myers, Yuyi Morales, Paul Zelinsky, Selina Alko, and Stephen

Arts & Culture

JR: Chronicles Opens at Brooklyn Museum

PROSPECT HEIGHTS – JR: Chronicles [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/jr_chronicles] opens at the Brooklyn Museum on Friday, October 4, presenting several of the artist’s international projects from the past 15 years as well as a new mural, The Chronicles of New York City. JR, 28 Millimètres, Portrait d’

Arts & Culture

BRIC Collaborates With DeKalb Market Hall In Showcasing Local Artists

As if the selection of food options wasn’t enough of a draw, DeKalb Market Hall [/dekalb-market-hall-finally-opens-photos/] partnered with BRIC to showcase murals created by local artists at the popular, new food hall. BRIC announced last week [https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/bric-helps-bring-mural-art-dekalb-market-hall] that it had collaborated with City Point

Arts & Culture

PS 124 Receives $9,615 Grant For Special Needs & ELL Mosaic Project

Courtesy PS 124 PTA [https://www.facebook.com/ps124pta/photos/a.639369299440690.1073741825.455615627816059/803639019680383/?type=3&theater] Thanks to a grant from the NYC Department of Education’s Arts for English Language Learners (ELL) and Students With Disabilities [http://schools.nyc.gov/offices/teachlearn/arts/Partnerships/ArtsELLs+SWD_RFP_

Arts & Culture

Big Respect For The Artists Who Created New Artwork In Tribute Of Clinton Hill Son Biggie Smalls

Photo courtesy of Christopher Wallace Way [https://www.instagram.com/christopherwallaceway/].Two new public works of art — one in paint on metal, one a mosaic of glass — have gone up on Fulton Street, between St. James Place and Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill, in tribute to one of the neighborhood’

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Photo Finish: Art Night Light

Seen on Lafayette Avenue. Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them #ftgfocus on Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and we’ll post them on the site. Also, like us on Facebook [https:

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Photo Finish: Art Is Everywhere

Art is everywhere. Share photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them #ftgfocus on Instagram, and we’ll post them on the site. Also, like us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/FortGreeneFocus], or follow us

Douglas Elliman

What Do You Think About The New Mural Outside Douglas Elliman?

A new mural recently went up on the Garfield Place side wall of the Douglas Elliman [http://www.elliman.com/] real estate office located at 154 7th Avenue, and apparently some neighbors aren’t too excited about it. Brownstoner posted photos [http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2014/08/park-slope-neighbors-complain-about-new-elliman-mural/] of

Mavi Jeans

Mavi To Unveil New Mural At A Party This Saturday

If you see folks at work this week outside of Mavi [http://us.mavi.com/], on the corner of Union Street at 5th Avenue, that’s a new mural going up where the old Who’s Your Uncle [/blog/photos/the-perennial-question] one lived. Their contest [/blog/art-music/design-a-new-mural-for-the-mavi-wall] to solicit

Brooklyn Recycle Project

Juan Carlos Pinto On Community Art & Living In Flatbush

Neighbor Matt MacLean directed us to this awesome video by Brooklyn Independent Television [http://bricartsmedia.org] about local artist and neighborhood beautifier Juan Carlos Pinto [http://jcarlospintocom.myshopify.com], who’s responsible (along with the Brooklyn Recycle Project [http://brooklynrecycleproject.tumblr.com]) for well-known area installations like the enormous pixelated

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Photo Of The Day: Faces Of Justice

A detail from the Justice Everywhere mural [http://www.groundswellmural.org/project/justice-everywhere] on the corner of 4th Avenue and Degraw Street. Take any photos in Park Slope lately? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/

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The Open Door

Chrisjohnbowman [http://instagram.com/p/gBUZw5wiAg/] spots a booby trap not very well covered in leaves. Snapped any good sidewalk scenes recently? Share photos with us at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag them #ditmaspark on Instagram, and

Loader

The Lone Loader

For a while now, we’d thought this painting of a loader on the wall next to Geo Gas on the corner of Coney Island Avenue and Lewis Place had been part of something larger that was hiding under a sign [http://www.flickr.com/photos/79759083@N00/1563210364/] that

Barrier

Fort Hamilton Barrier Needs An Update

While walking past the concrete barrier that runs along Fort Hamilton Parkway from Park Circle to about East 5th Street next to the bike lane, we noticed how, well, dingy it’s gotten since it was painted with a new design in October, 2011 [http://karmabrooklyn.blogspot.com/2011/10/

Brooklyn Recycle Project

Help Work on the Newkirk Plaza Mosaic

Artist and neighbor Carlos Pinto [http://www.jcarlospinto.com/] and the Brooklyn Recycle Project [https://www.facebook.com/pages/BRP-Brooklyn-Recycle-Project/157369357631364] will be working on the mosaic mural at the Newkirk Plaza passageway [/blog/art-music/embed-a-piece-of-yourself-in-the-newkirk-mosaic] on Saturday, March 9 from about 10am to 1pm, and he’s inviting anyone

East 16th Street

East 16th Street Mural Already Tagged

The new East 16th mural was tagged by this bit of graffiti recently, as shown by this picture from neighbor Edwina. The mural was painted earlier this month [/blog/art-music/who-painted-east-16th-streets-new-mural] in an effort to keep the wall untagged as urged by C-Town, said FDC’s [http://fdconline.org/] Robin

Damion Scott

East 16th Street Mural Gets $3,800 Matching Grant and Comic Book Teaching Artist

C-Town Supermarkets has pledged a matching grant of up to $3,800 in funds for getting the new mural up [/blog/art-music/a-new-mural-is-coming-to-e-16th-st] on East 16th Street and Newkirk Avenue (pictured above), says Robin Redmond, Executive Director at the Flatbush Development Corporation [fdconline.org]. If you’d like to donate,

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Lots of Helping Hands at Newkirk Plaza Mural Painting

Wave after wave of volunteers stopped by yesterday to help paint the mural in the Newkirk Plaza passageway. Lyna and Oksana from the Newkirk Cares Collaborative [https://www.facebook.com/NewkirkCollaborative] and artist Susan Jaramillo [http://www.thevoxcollective.com/work/] directed everyone who picked up a brush–from friends and

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VIDEO: Summer Mural In Bensonhurst!

The above video, uploaded by BKLYNmurals [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEfAP1WjjUQ&list=UUE42VvWbPknFZkoRCPrQW1A&index=2&feature=plcp] , celebrates and showcases how the same type of talent and civic interest that could lead one to put up some great Christmas lights in the winter can also result to some

Forgotten NY

Lost and Forgotten in New York

Thanks to Gowanus Lounge [http://www.gowanuslounge.com/2009/01/29/fogotten-ny-ghosts-of-sheepshead-bays-future/] , I’ll be on the lookout this week for the historian, otherwise known as, Master New York Factologist Kevin Walsh. Gowanus Lounge said that his trip is specifically to take another look at the familiar mural at the