The mural that a group of young people from Groundswell have been painting this summer at Fourth Avenue and Sackett Street is completed and the scaffolding has come down in the last day or so. The mural is about water conservation and the environment and is painted on the side of a building adjoining a [...]

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There’s a cool show called Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance opening tonight at the English Kills Gallery in Bushwick. It runs through September 17. The opening reception is from 5PM-9PM.. Here’s a bit from the gallery:
English Kills Art Gallery is pleased to present Maximum Perception : Contemporary Brooklyn Performance, the first exhibition to cover the [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Erinmelina/GL Flickr Pool]
This is some of the art on display as part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition show in Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo. The show alway provides great opportunities to juxtapose images of the city with art.

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Yesterday, the Times took note of the Crest Hardware Art Show, which has been much blogged about. It’s run has now been extended through July 24 and, yesterday, this video tour of the Burg’s most off beat art show was posted on the YouTube. Back in June, Jen Carlson ran a Q&A on Gothamist she [...]

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Here’s Olafur Eliasson’s waterfall on Governors Island (which we consider to be an honorary part of Brooklyn as it is closer to us than Manhattan) viewed up close and personal from the Island itself.

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Here are some vids of Olafur Eliason’s waterfalls, with an emphasis on the Brooklyn ones.

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Eliasson Waterfall at Brooklyn Bridge from rsguskind on Vimeo.

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Olafur Eliasson’s waterfalls were turned on early this morning. Here are some views of the one under the Brooklyn Bridge, which we checked out from Fulton Ferry Landing.

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Tomorrow is the big day, at least, for those waiting to catch more than a fleeting glimpse of Olafur Eliasson’s Waterfalls project. There’s a press event at 10AM to kick off the festivities and the falls are slated run every day from 7AM-10PM through October 13. Just every company with a boat will be running [...]

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“Park Slope artist Alex Grey is known for his love of LSD and the vivid, elaborate body of work that has often been inspired by it. His paintings have graced album covers for Nirvana, Tool, and String Cheese Incident—not to mention rave flyers and sheets of blotter acid. Juan Pablo Fernandez, who lives in Sunset [...]

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The Fifth Annual Atlantic Avenue Artwalk is coming up on Saturday & Sunday, June 7 and 8, from 1PM-6PM both days. Per an email:
ARTWALK08 is a tour of open studios, exhibits, public art projects, and special events on Atlantic Avenue featuring over 250 artists. A wide range of artists across media will open their private [...]

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We visited the Telectroscope in Fulton Ferry Landing a couple of times this weekend, but during prime daytime hours and at a quieter point during the night. It was so quiet, in fact, that no one was on the London end at about 4AM on a rainy night. The device, which has cameras and monitors [...]

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[Photo courtesy of 66 Square Feet]
This is a fountain on Dean Street in Boeurm Hill near Bond. We understand that it makes a lot of sound.

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We checked out the Telectroscope art installation at Fulton Ferry Landing yesterday and will put up a full photoset tomorrow. In the meantime, here’s some video of people looking at people in London and the general scene.

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Brooklyn Based’s Nicole Davis files this special post and photos from the London Side of the Telectroscope, the Brooklyn side of which is at Fulton Ferry Landing:

Compared to the fanfare over the Telectroscope in NYC (due in part to enthusiastic fans like myself), Londoners don’t seem nearly as excited about this tunnel-eye view across the [...]

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Today is the second day of the Park Slope Open Studio Tour, which one might want to check out on the way to or from the Fifth Avenue Fair. There’s a webpage for the tour here, but the link to the map just leads to a PDF of the image we’ve posted above. The map [...]

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The SONYA Studio Stroll (South of the Navy Yard) is today (5/17) and tomorrow (5/18) from 12 Noon to 6PM. The map of the studios is above, included to show the general area. The tour’s website has a PDF of the brochure and full info. Here’s a bit:
SONYA presents the 9th Annual SONYA Studio Stroll [...]

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One of the more amusing parts of the upcoming Brooklyn Bridge celebration is an art project called “The Telectroscope: A Window Through the World.” The NYC Visit website describes it like this: “Artist Paul St. George’s public media project is an amazing optical device that allows viewers in Brooklyn to see all the way to [...]

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Here’s a fun weekend event that combines several things: art, a local Brooklyn brew and a Gowanus artists work space. It’s “A Night of Brooklyn Art and Beer–Free Beer Tasting and Opening Reception for a Unique Installation by the Gowanus Studio Space at Kelso’s of Brooklyn’s 5000 Square Foot Brewing Space.” The event takes place [...]

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This is the tower that has gone up on the waterfront beneath Brooklyn Heights between Piers 4 and 5 as seen from street level. In July, the water will be turned on and it will run from 7AM-10PM every day as part of Olafur Eliasson’s “Waterfalls” project. This tower is 120 feet tall and it’s [...]

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The Big Eye is gone from the storefront on Seventh Avenue between Second and Third Streets where artist Mark Ravitz has been placing his work and it has been replaced by new work. The grate was already down yesterday evening, so we could only capture all three of them as they appear behind steel.

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A new exhibition of art on Bedford Avenue kicks off this Sunday (April 27) from 2PM-8PM. Per information sent along by Matthew Silver, known to many people as the Bedford Avenue Dancer:
Artwalking: Bedford Ave. An invitational exhibition featuring over thirty storefront installations between North 3rd and North 9th on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. A [...]

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We found artist Pasqualina Azzarello working on her mural at the development going up at the corner of Third and Bond in Gowanus. She has been expanding the huge mural and even extending around the construction trailer. Brownstoner has been running weekly posts about the development. The latest has some renderings of the design from [...]

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We initially stopped to take some pics on Bedford Avenue because we noticed that some space next to the Elliman real estate office had morphed into a gallery. Then, a woman inside motioned to us to come in and we focused on the stunning art. It’s the work of Stephen Bennett who has created larger [...]

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“The art world has masticated in contemplation over sculptor Tom Otterness just as the dog he assassinated in the name of artistic expression over 20 years ago might have chomped on a tasty bone. The chance to jump on the Otterness Hate Wagon has come (literally) to DUMBO where the artist’s piece Large Covered Wagon [...]

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