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An Island Glass blowing artist combines history and artistic talent to bend both storytelling and consciousness Ryan McGivern wears many hats. The artist, who is the only exhibiting glassblower on Staten Island, is also ...
Read More »After the Fox
PETER FOX’S VIBRANT WORK TRANSPORTS TO A PLACE OF COLOR AND ABANDON By Catherine Gigante-Brown In the middle of Bushwick, amid a sea of ancient warehouses, in the place where tortillas and tiles come ...
Read More »Eat, Drink & be Literary
A unique opportunity for reclusive word-o-philes to get a decent meal, a couple of drinks, and a chance to talk to some of the greatest writers of our generation Franz Kafka, displaying his ...
Read More »Ready for Our Close Up
Brooklyn College’s Graduate School of Cinema, scheduled to open in 2014, will focus on production When fictional gangster Nucky Thompson and his Boardwalk Empire crew invaded Greenpoint a few years ago, and HBO built ...
Read More »True Grit
Park Slope artist Robert Weiss talks turkey about his craft, gentrification, and the “sweet science” By Catherine Gigante-Brown The view from Robert Weiss’s studio is much like his urban landscapes: crooked Brooklyn rooftops, all ...
Read More »Formula 109
109 Gallery’s most recent exhibitions are roughly equal parts fine art, barter, and bands. Where do we sign? One of the most recent additions to Williamsburg’s art scene is 109 Gallery, which opened its ...
Read More »Tunes of Our Times
SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER HOSTS AN EXHIBIT CELEBRATING OUR ISLAND’S HISTORIC AND ICONIC SOUNDS The expansive musical history embedded in our roots on Staten Island is often forgotten. Popular music, with thumping base, seems ...
Read More »A WORLD WITHIN
A QUEST FOR SIMPLE, PERSONAL BEAUTY DRIVES ONE ISLAND ARTIST From his serene, colorful landscapes to traditional still-life paintings and surreal, psyche-inspired works, artist Geoff Rawling finds multitude avenues of self-expression. Orphaned at 9 ...
Read More »A ROOM OF ART’S OWN
Artists find opportunity to show their work at Art By The Ferry festival in June Staten Island may be known as a borough of parks, but to those who know our community well, it ...
Read More »EARLY RISER
How one island illustrator finds inspiration…at 5:00 in the morning! “I want to do something I love.” Words we hear all too often from people we know, or even from ourselves from time to ...
Read More »Jim Lambie’s ZOBOP! at MoMA
Here is an artist who apparently works in a frenzy of pure creativity, spewing out fun and beauty with energy, grace, and a strange, unfettered, totally unpretentious imagination. Without claiming any obvious social or ...
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