Monday, June 6, 2011
Art Favorites from Galleries and Studios We Visited During Bushwick Open Studios 2011
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:10 PM
There was so much happening at Bushwick Open Studios 2011 this weekend that I barely managed to visit a fraction of the buildings, studios and shows that I had planned to—1717 Troutman Street singlehandedly took up most of my Saturday afternoon. But here are some of the highlights from that building, a handful of others, and a few of the nabe's great galleries.
- And, embarrassingly, I didn't manage to photograph my favorite find of the weekend, these incredible resin columns by Jack Henry at 119 Ingraham Street, so this photo is from his website.
And can I mention the absolute worst thing I saw all weekend as well? Maybe I'll just link to his website.
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Mark my words kids- Bushwick is now the epicenter of hipsterdom. That place down the road- Williamsburg, it’s old hat.
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/06/th…
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@scallyway. It's not quite that simple. The notion that artists are "displaced" or "pushed" so to speak, from Williamsburg to Bushwick, so that Williamsburg becomes "hold hat" and Bushwick becomes "the new thing" etc. etc. etc. ... is an urban myth and a narrative without much support in the facts. During the Northside Open Studios, I went into perhaps half a dozen industrial buildings right in the heart of the Northside and right on the waterfront. There were more artists camped out in any one of these buildings than I can recall in the entire neighborhood when I lived here 20 odd years ago. And they were all in their 20s and 30s. These were no "grandfathered" middle-aged hipsters from back in the day. The truth is that artist colonization has lost no steam in ANY North Brooklyn neighborhood. It proceeds apace in the heart of the Northside as it does in Bushwick, and it functions in an economic relationship with gentrification, and as a necessary component of gentrification.
@ethanpettit
This is far too intelligent and thoughtful a comment for such an empty, moronic article (the one in the link posted by Scallywag). But thanks for it, nonetheless.
