There are enough more or less massive, regularly scheduled, neighborhood-centric and open-studios-based arts events in Brooklyn for you to fill up a fair amount of space in a 12-month calendar. But there’s a big annual one in Queens as well—The Long Island City Arts Open, to be precise, which will be spread all around the general area of LIC this year, from May 13th to the 17th. What started out not too long ago as a simple open-studios event has now exploded into a whole lot more, so we asked some of its organizers, curators and artists about the maturation of LICAO, and about what this year’s visitors can expect. (more…)