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Interview by Elvire Camus & Arnaud Aubry
Sue Jeiven, tattoist at East River Tattoo, using a coil tattoo machine, the main tool of the trade. Photo by Sofia Faga
Mary Kosut has a PhD in Sociology and teaches at SUNY Purchase College. In WG’s search for a more studied view of the “tattoo phenomenon” in Williamsburg, we tapped Dr. Kosut for her knowledge of the sociology of the body—tattoos especially.
A New York tri-system developed for the founder of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde restaurants.
Greenpoint-based City Aquarium is a twelve-year-old company that imagines, builds, designs, and maintains unique custom-made aquariums. Many of their clients are billionaires, hotels, showrooms, and municipal aquariums. To name a few examples, a 1,200 gallon, two-sided viewing tank sitting in one of Honda’s showrooms in New York City was developed and is serviced by City Aquarium each week.
The 30-foot-tall cylindrical aquarium of Dream Hotel, also in the city, was built by the company. “Several of my clients have asked me not to reveal their identities,” founder Justin Muir confides. As for the ones he is allowed to mention, some include the royal family of Kuwait, artist Tony Ourseler, entrepreneur Alan Wilzig, and Yankees baseball player C. C. Sabathia.
Illustration by Carri Skoczek
By Benjamin Lozovsky
Going out in Williamsburg is like ordering an unfamiliar cocktail or draft, based on an existing favorite. The ingredients are generally expected, but with bold twists on flavor presented to a discerning palette, it’s all about the mix. When done right, it’s an exercise in spontaneity and audacity, blanketed in a warming sense of comfort. On a typical Friday night, start off at a brewery; when that closes go beer-garden hopping, later take in a weekly dance party, finally head to your local pub. Choosing a trajectory is practically a philosophical debate, with so many options on and off the main strip. You’ve just got to do what feels right. The choices are all good, with attractive women in fanciful outfits and guys wearing cool hats and vests drinking local beers on tap. At the end of the night, one sighs contentedly, picks up some freshly baked bread, and stumbles home down cobblestone streets. That’s a common scene from Williamsburg’s history.
Richard Timperio “Untitled Watercolor” (2010). Photo courtesy Art 101
“What Art Can Do”
Art 101, 101 Grand St., through 10/17
The six artists in “What Art Can Do” have at least one thing in common (and it isn’t their artistic styles): they all run galleries in Williamsburg. Richard Timperio, who heads the Sideshow gallery, contributes lively watercolors of colorful rings and rectangles. His taste for audacious abstraction becomes evident in his own paintings as well as in the work of artists he exhibits at his gallery. Daniel Aycock (Front Room Gallery) offers an animation called “Diagram of a Perpetual Motion Machine Powered by Art World Personalities” — basically a Ferris-wheel contraption with attached nodules, spinning in an endless loop. Aycock and the others in this show are “art world personalities.” Are they part of the machine?
Photo by Eric Wolman.
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Knitting Factory Bklyn Presents ALL IN THE TIMING Series Beginning 11/1 [BroadwayWorld]