WILLIAMSBURG — The artist known as Bigfoot, who has called the Williamsburg-Greenpoint area home for about a year, was recruited by The North Face apparel company to design a nature-inspired line of clothing, in part to benefit Partnerships for Parks.
The limited edition apparel, designed in Bigfoot’s signature greens and browns, was sold in the company’s SoHo store during the end of last week. Proceeds from the $30 Bigfoot water bottles will benefit Partnerships for Parks, a joint
EASTERN PARKWAY — It’s time to rock out, Brooklyn! On Oct. 30, the Brooklyn Museum will be opening the new exhibit, “Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present” — the first major museum exhibition to acknowledge photographers for their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock and roll.
The exhibition features approximately 175 works by 105 photographers, with many rare and never-before-exhibited photographs.
CLINTON HILL — Pratt Institute’s Brooklyn campus is hosting British artist Stephen Wiltshire this entire week. Wiltshire is drawing — from memory alone — a stunningly detailed 18-foot-long panorama of
New York City.
Comedy-Drama Takes Up Back
To Brighton Beach in the 1930s
By Michael Kuchwara
Associated Press
BROOKLYN — Eugene Morris Jerome is quite the quipster.
Even at age 15, the lad can rattle off one-liners with machine-gun precision and get a laugh. He's also a keen observer of his family's turbulent domestic life in 1930s Brooklyn, the setting for Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon's lightly fictionalized tale of his own adolescence.
Eugene is a young Simon, of course, and the play is a skillful and, dare we
Richard Schall, above right, is one of dozens of Brooklyn filmmakers who were challenged to create an original short film in just 24 hours last Saturday as part of the Brooklyn Film Race 2009. The completed films premiered Thursday evening at the Brooklyn Heights Cinema at 70 Henry St. Filmmakers were assigned the theme of jealousy and were told to include aluminum foil as a prop. Schall, whose film is entitled “Road Test: The Musical” (staring his girlfriend Julie Ann {read more...}
A crowd of nearly 300 people filled St. Francis College’s Founders Hall for the world premiere of Terry Quinn’s A Distant Love: Songs of John and Abigail Adams, as the latest presentation of the Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series on Monday, Oct. 19. The musical play deals with the long-distance love of John and Abigail Adams during the 11 years that John spent overseas before he became president. James Grant, Brooklyn resident, economist and author of John Adams: Party of One gave an introductory lecture. Seen here is Elizabeth Dabney as Abigail Adams.
Last week, “Dance Brooklyn” reflected on Brooklyn-based choreographer Miguel Gutierrez’s new work, “Last Meadow,” presented at Dance Theater Workshop in mid-September. Based on impressions of James Dean, the work was compelling even as it irritated, and it left a viewer puzzled. What follows is a portion of an interview with the choreographer the following week.
PART 2 — Miguel Explains
• Why James Dean?
When I saw East of Eden, the DVD only had the special parts. James Dean became
We have at our disposal here, in this great borough of Brooklyn, some of the finest theater in the city. The Strivelli Players out of Christ Church in Bay Ridge just completed their run of “Showstoppers & Standards,” a musical {read more...}
`Angel of Music’ Mysteriously
Vanished From Composer’s Grave
BROOKLYN — The Green-Wood Historic Fund announced Tuesday that five prominent Americans from the fields of art, academia, music and film have been named to a special selection committee that will choose a new “Angel of Music” sculpture to grace the gravesite of 19th century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Green-Wood Cemetery.
The panelists are:
* Arnold Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum
* Danny Simmons, Brooklyn abstract-expressionist painter, gallery owner, leader
BROOKLYN — This Friday, Oct. 23, the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society will host an evening performance where they hold all their monthly performances — in the chapel at First Unitarian Church.
According to both artistic director Carmit Zori and board member Judy Hazen, the chapel is the perfect space. It is able to seat 100-plus people, the acoustics are remarkable, and the minister of the church is a former musician who was thrilled to invite
GREENPOINT — Brooklyn artist Jeffrey Gibson is one of five Native American contemporary artists to receive $25,000 for an exhibit at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis.
The Eiteljorg Fellowship program has awarded nearly $725,000 to indigenous contemporary artists since its inception, as it works to expose the public and mainstream art world to their work.
A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw, and half-Cherokee, Gibson, 37, lives in Greenpoint, in
Photo Exhibit Focuses on
Industrial Past, Toxic Present
PARK SLOPE — The legacy of Brooklyn’s industrial past and the spectrum of pollution in which we live are captured in Robin Michals’ photography exhibition, “Toxi City: Brooklyn’s Brownfields,” at the Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Ave., Park Slope, from Sunday, Oct. 25 through Sunday, Nov. 8.
The exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. The public is invited free of charge. An artist’s reception will be held Sunday, Oct. 25, 3 to
Brooklyn Designer Featured
In Show at Texas University
By Jamie Stengle
Associated Press
DALLAS — From glittering beaded flapper dresses to silky pantsuits meant for entertaining at home, a new exhibit celebrates a time when young women bobbed their hair, ventured out to speakeasies and dared to shorten their hemlines.
“Painting the Town: 1920s High Style” highlights the independent spirit of many women of the day, especially Brooklyn-based designer Regina Kobler, whose work is prominently featured in the small show at the University of North
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County of Kings Showing
At Famed Public Theater
By Peter Santilli
Associated Press
BROOKLYN — In the opening scene of Lemon Andersen’s enthralling solo memoir, County of Kings, the hip-hop poet re-enacts the elation he felt upon reaching the pinnacle of his young career.
In this triumphant moment, Andersen basked onstage at the Tony Awards ceremony, reveling in his own long-awaited arrival.
Privately, his thoughts traced back to the troubled path that led him to the big time, a journey he calls “the beautiful struggle.” This
