Red Hook Recommendations

Time Out New York's Recommendations on Van Brunt Street here.

Places like Saipua, a floral shop that makes its own soaps, are mentioned.

Make Textured String Bracelets

{i heart handmade & martha stewart}

(Re)Fashioning Fiber

{Art cloth text}

Environmental artist and textile writer, Abigail Doan, announces the upcoming exhibit,(Re)Fashioning Fiber opening at Tribeca’s Green Spaces NY on Thursday, May 20, 2010 from 6:30pm-8:30pm.

Doan curated this group exhibition as an opportunity to examine new ways of thinking about fiber in relation to the natural environment, our patterns of consumption, and contemporary definitions of fashioning self.

Fiber is one of the most ancient materials used in craftwork, garment production, and shelter fabrication. It serves as a resilient and easily sourced material for many of today’s sustainable design solutions as well as having an impressive history of use in personal adornment. The practice of (re)fashioning, recycling, or altering natural fiber is on the increase in art studios and fashion houses globally. This new wave of eco-crafting seems to highlight the positive ways that fiber is also (re)fashioning our connections to one another as well as our fragile environment.

(Re)Fashioning Fiber includes collaborative environmental fiber art from Iran; handcrafted vegetation jewelry from Bulgaria; sustainable, locally-minded fashion and drawings by Eko-Lab; no-waste textile fashion by Study NY; recycled ‘flotsam fiber’ from the streets of NYC; handmade books spinning tales about a global pilgrimage; crochet tower structures infused with sound; and one-of-a-kind fiber expressions from the domestic realm.

Invited artists and designers include: Abigail Doan, Atefeh Khas (Iran), Brece Honeycutt, Ceca Georgeiva (Bulgaria), Abigail McEnroe, Kaori Yamazaki, Mackenzie Frere (Canada), Matt Pass, Melissa Kirgan, Meiling Chen, Michelle Vitale Loughlin, Renata Mann, Sibyll Kalff (Germany), Tara St. James, Tara Goodarzy, Xing-Zhen Chung-Hilyard. Unless indicated, all other artists/designers are U.S. based.

(Re)Fashioning Fiber will be on view at Green Spaces NY, located at

394 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York from May 20 thru August 13, 2010.

See http://www.greenspaceshome.com/

Please contact curator Abigail Doan for further inquiries:

abigaildoan@mac.com

Updates on the exhibition will be viewable at the following links:http://eccoeco.blogspot.com and http://abigaildoan.blogspot.com

Adam Bartos

{ny photo festival & adam bartos}

{adam bartos}

and this one from los angeles in the 70's...makes me miss home:

{adam bartos}

Hester Street Fair

{hester street fair}

New Rooftop bar in Park Slope

The Rock Shop: Park Slope's new bar with rooftop area.  It also has a pool table and flat screen TVs.  But they don't want to call themselves a sports bar.

Pickle & Stick

{brooklyn flea & ny mag}

Black Swan

{bed-stuy blog & ny mag}

Black Swan, 1048 Bedford Ave., nr. Lafayette Ave.; Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; 718-783-4744

Bed-Stuy Fish Fry

{bed-stuy blog}

Bed-Stuy Fish Fry (801 Halsey Street, between Ralph and Howard Avenues)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi

{japan society}

{ny mag}

Friday, March 12 — Sunday, June 13

Utagawa Kuniyoshi's vivid scenes from history and legend, wildly popular 150 years ago, are a major influence on the work of today's manga and anime artists. This exhibition features over 130 dramatic depictions of giant spiders, skeletons and toads; Chinese ruffians; women warriors; haggard ghosts; and desperate samurai combat.

Admission:  $12

students & seniors $10; 

Japan Society members and children under 16 FREE. 

Admission is FREE to all on Friday nights , 6-9 PM.

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday through Thursday 11 AM - 6 PM

Friday 11 AM - 9 PM

Saturday & Sunday 11 AM - 5 PM

The gallery is closed on Mondays.