Exhibitions
How Bushwick Open Studios Turns a Neighborhood Into a Gallery
Every September, hundreds of working studios across Bushwick throw their doors open for free — here's how the twenty-year-old, artist-run weekend actually works.
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Exhibition coverage that begins before the opening and continues past it: curatorial argument, sequencing, the hang, lighting decisions and what the checklist quietly says about the show. Includes museum surveys and one-room project spaces. For anyone who goes to exhibitions and wants a considered second reading.
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Art Handlers: The Labor Behind the Show
Crates, condition reports, and the people who carry the art: who art handlers are, what the work pays, and why so many are artists.
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What MFA Thesis Shows Do for Artists
Two years of studio work ends in one free public exhibition — a debut, a deadline, and a slower job market than the mythology claims.
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How NYC Pop-Up Shows Find Their Spaces
Vacant storefronts, short licenses, and a nonprofit matchmaker: where one-month exhibitions actually come from.
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How to Walk Lower East Side Galleries
From Houston to Canal, tenement storefronts and second-floor rooms: a block-by-block guide to the Lower East Side galleries.
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How to Attend a New York Art Fair
Tickets, timing, and tactics for The Armory Show, Frieze New York, and the satellites — no VIP pass required.
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How a Chelsea Opening Actually Works
Thursday nights between 19th and 29th Streets: the timing, the lists, and the rooms behind the rooms.
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How Open Studios Work Beyond Bushwick
Gowanus in October, Long Island City in spring, Harlem on scattered dates: how the city's other open studios weekends actually run.
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How Ridgewood Absorbed Bushwick's Art Overflow
Queens ended up with Brooklyn's spare studios: how artists crossed Wyckoff Avenue and what they built on the other side.
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A First-Friday Gallery Walk in Bushwick
Where to start, what a first Friday actually is, and how to walk Bushwick's gallery rooms in one evening.