Interview with the founders of CreatureBox, the great illustration team of Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin, who also work at Insomniac Games. http://area.autodesk.com/inhouse/bts/creaturebox_full_of_monsters_spacemen_and_storytelling
Red Hook Film Festival
The Red Hook Film Festival opens this weekend featuring movies from Brooklyn filmmakers. The screenings begin at 1pm on Saturday Oct. 3rd, with a special tribute film titled “Robert Guskind: 1958-2009” by Blue Barn Pictures, followed by a 10th anniversary screening of the seminal Brooklyn documentary “Lavendar Lake: Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal” directed by Alison Prete. […]
DUMBO Art Fest This Weekend
Looking forward to this weekend’s art festival in DUMBO, always a lot to see and do. More information is available at http://dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html. I’ll be putting together a special photo essay at www.ArtinBrooklyn.com next week. Be sure to stop in and see the work of Randall Stoltzfus who I profiled earlier this year. He’s located at […]
Museum: Behind The Scenes At The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Just finished reading the book Museum: Behind The Scenes At The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Danny Danziger. Danziger interviews museum employees, from maintenance staff to trustees, creating a uniquely intimate profile of the institution. Many people talk about favorite works and exhibits but they also reveal their personal stories and paths to working at […]
Dutch New York
PBS has a new show in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch settling New York. It’s by Barry Lewis, the same historian that does the walking tours of various NY neighborhoods. The concept is similar, he walks through various areas pointing places of historic significance. Although this show also travels outside of the […]
NYFA Artist Fellowships
Artists’ Fellowships are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. Grants are awarded in 16 artistic disciplines, with applications accepted in eight categories each year. Since the awards began in 1985, NYFA has awarded over $22 million to over 3,688 artists. In […]
Insight Magazine
My work is featured in the latest edition of Insight Magazine. Committed to uncensored artistic expression, INSIGHT provides a platform for emerging and established artists to share their perspective on art. They’re a publication of the F.O.K.U.S. organization which produces a great series of events in NYC and Michigan. More information is available at their […]
Food and Art
Food and art are both sensual pleasures, easily appreciated by all and capable of endless refinement. I remember first seeing the work of Wayne Thiebaud in a retrospective as a high school student in California. The vibrant colors and symmetrical rows of pies spoke of joyous pleasures and platonic order. Apollo and Dionysus meeting at […]
1st Year (+2 month) Anniversary!
Guess what? My site www.ArtinBrooklyn.com has made it past the one year mark! Somehow it slipped under my radar. The mission, as always, is to support local artists. So take a look, there’s a lot of great work!
Underground Together: The Art and Life of Harvey Dinnerstein
Just picked up this beautiful book at the used bookshop. Harvey has taught for years at the Art Student’s League and paints using traditional techniques. He’s got mad skills. There’s a nice overlap of subject matter with my own work. Many scenes of city streets, parks, and subways. Always nice to see a different artist’s […]