by Whitney Kimball on May 31, 2012
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All this week we’ve been recommending artist’s studios, but gallery spaces are joining in on the Bushwick Open Studios weekend, too. We sifted through the listings to pick out a few of our favorites. Among them, we’ve got neighborhood institutions like NurtureArt, Momenta Art, and “Mayor of Bushwick” Jules de Balincourt’s studio, but also brand-new spaces, sculpture gardens, walking tours, and a community darkroom. All are worth checking out, and to make it a little easier, we made you a map, too.
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by Paddy Johnson on June 16, 2011
Tomorrow marks the dawn of a new era in mail art: Presents, Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ an opening that promises booze AND epic results! At least those are my predictions. As many readers will have already caught wind of around the web, Hyperallergic has been collecting mail art for three months. Come tomorrow, the days of tantalizing their readers with posts of their mail art gifts online will close: The mail art show opens!
Selected from over 100 submissions, the show includes artists such as Bo Bartlett, J.D. Hastings, Tim McCool, Austin Thomas, Audra Wolowiec, and many more (a full list of the participating artists can be found at the bottom of this post). Storefront’s Kate Wadkins and Hyperallergic‘s founding editor Hrag Vartanian are responsible for the curation of the show. Yesterday, I drilled Vartanian on the connections of this show with the blog Post Secret. That didn’t go very well, but I got an interview out of it regardless.
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