Category Archives: Red Hook
Street Art, (dis)course: Discuss
As a writer, I’ve long been dedicated to Fine Art (painting, sculpture, installation, video) and perhaps, always will be. But I also think that this art—what’s commonly known as Graffiti Art or Street Art—deserves to be talked of in the language of high art, indoor art. (Hey: do you think I’m the person to do [...]
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La Passegiata, Red Hook (solo) Part II: Art in the Dark at Kidd Yellin
Date: June 29, 2010, even later in the afternoon than before. a breeze near the waterfront.
Location: Conover Street, ‘Kidd Yellin’
Weather: See previous post. Hot. OK?
Narrative: I tell you, honestly: I’m NOT looking for “art.” I just want to take a walk.
Then this:
No, that isn’t a mezuzah taking a nap. It’s a doorbell. [...]
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“La Passegiata”: Red Hook. Private ‘art’ walk(s), in which I don’t look for art. June. part I.
Date: June 29, 2010, late afternoon (with some mention of the previous night, almost at dark).
Location: Van Brunt and environs
Hot-as-heck, high humidity. Oppressive sun. Criss-cross-the-sidewalk-to-find-shade weather.
La Passegiata, “private,” Part I.
Date: June 29, 2010, late afternoon, with some reference to June 28, evening.
Location: Van Brunt and environs
Weather: Hot-as-heck, high humidity. Oppressive sun. Criss-cross-the-sidewalk-to-find-shade weather.
Red Hook is [...]
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Union Street Outpost: WORK
Interrupting this studio-visit bonanza to say (once again) that Carroll Gardens, proper, has an outpost of art as serendipitously fun as that last studio—and accessible, ’cause it’s a gallery: WORK. At the end of Union Street.
Wandered into the open door this morning. And, in addition to these nifty stools and table altered with wooden ball/dowl-y [...]
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La Passegiata/Studio Visit 3: Designing Serendipity/Andrew Coates
La Passegiata: Red Hook
Vasca 2
June 08 [2nd trip], 2010. Past the Holland Tunnel entrance, and into Red Hook. Huge cumulous clouds; very much a perfect June day.
First leg of walk: Dwight Street to X Street, near Dafonte’s Sandwich Shop.
Location: Large industrial building, all studios/living spaces.
Narrative: “The foundation of art should be design,” says Andrew Coates. [...]
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Minting Coins in the basement; forging links upstairs: studio visit, Red Hook, part 2
OK, so Cherry and I had to hit Fairway for lunch, right? I bet you wondered what happened to us. Sandwiches. A chocolate-drizzled cruller. Mineral Water. Done.
Second Stop/Vasca 2: Studio of Beriah Wall. [X] Street
Location: First floor and basement level; same amazing sunlight, though less of a harbor feel. First floor is homey and sunlit. [...]
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Stuart Nicholson, Man of Our Time