No Love for Manhattan from Bushwick Artists
Manhattan, says Iris Lasson, a sculptor. The strange place across the water. I don’t like going there unless I have to pick up a check, says Doyle. Arielle Bier stirs a pot of soup. I go to Manhattan, and money falls out of my pockets, she says. — New York Magazine
Manhattan, says Iris Lasson, a sculptor. The strange place across the water.
I don’t like going there unless I have to pick up a check, says Doyle.
Arielle Bier stirs a pot of soup. I go to Manhattan, and money falls out of my pockets, she says.
When did it become de rigeur for artists to have pretentious made up names?
“there are good artists and bad, but don’t pretend that there are not good. some are extremely good.”
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Someday this war is gonna end…
Thinking you’re cool for not having money is just as uncool as thinking you’re cool for having money.
Get over yourselves.
there’s an opening on friday in bushwick that is all about sexting!!! (sex text messaging)! freeeeee alcohol
*rob*
i did attend the open studios this last weekend in bushwick. place was packed. also, the renegade arts fair in McCarren was packed, so northern brooklyn is popular brownstoners! anyway,i didn’t have a chance to see a lot of studios, but the work in the Bushwick gallery Ad Hoc (which is actually pretty well known), was terrific.
there are good artists and bad, but don’t pretend that there are not good. some are extremely good.
also, for anyone interested, the 3rd Ward has events all the time, and is a seriously very cool space. they had a great Christmas arts and crafts fair. They also have an open drinking and drawing night where they supply the model every other week.
I dont understand why people get worked up about this kind of stuff. People like this with this attitude have been living in new york for 150 years.
Eh, I went to college with these people. Well, okay, not these exact same ones, but ones just exactly like these exact same ones. If you’re living life like it’s some kind of dystopian steampunk fantasy, you might as well be in your mom’s basement playing WoW. There is remarkably little difference.
It’s possible I am a wee bit bitter though.
i thought this article was pretty cool, and the lifestyles of the artists, though not for me, sounds intriguing and adventurous. not sure why there’s so much hate and “go-back-to-the-midwest” over broke-artists being broke-artists. if you readers get so upset about other people doing their own thing, i think it’s YOU who has the problem, not the people in question.
@ENY – there are many vegetarian varieties of soup, it can be eaten straight from the can, and it’s usually cheap. that would be my guess as to why it’s a preferred meal of the vagrant artist.
I agree the article was interesting but the pretentious attitude displayed by author and artists is extremely maddening. First of all, the caption on the opening photo says this merry band of artists are “from the deepest Bushwick” and the article gives one the feeling that these “artists” are some self-righteous pioneers civilizing the hostile natives. And I don’t care how poor you claim to be, but if you and your buddies are zipping off to Slovenia and Italy for two weeks, and you had the resources to “motorcycle across India” for a period of time, you ain’t that poor.
But probably the part that aggravated me the most was when they were scavenging for “trash” in Slovenia. Turns out, first they tried to STEAL materials from an abandoned warehouse, barely eluding the police, and then they tried to STEAL materials from people who were using the materials as some sort of dog park. That’s NOT trash! It’s owned by other people and is not available for your stupid paddle boats.