Archives for September 2014

Powder your nose and grab your buttons and bows, September is all about Bushwig. The Bushwick-based drag carnival and arts festival is returning for a 3rd year, and is extending the festival to run all weekend, and by all weekend, they mean ALL WEEKEND, honey!

Saturday kicks of at 1pm at Secret Project Robot, and sashays through 8 am at queer nightlife party and performance palace The Spectrum. Performers include Horrorchata, Elle Emenope, Rachel Ratchet, Sasha Velour, and many, many more superstars of drag, including a surprise guest from Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 6.

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Every artist in the burg, point, ridge, and wick will be out tonight to join Pierogi in celebrating their 20 year anniversary with a sprawling group show that features over 120 artists. Among those artists are Mike Ballou, David Kramer, Mark Lombardi, Ken Butler, Luisa Caldwell, Ward Shelley, and The Freds – Tomaselli and Valentine.

Pierogi opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on North 9th Street in September 1994, where it remains today. Williamsburg doesn’t look the same as it did twenty or thirty years ago, but it was around that time that visual artists flooded in to Brooklyn and created multiple communities. Pierogi’s reputation for a unique, unconventional approach is grounded in this context. Over time Williamsburg’s example fostered numerous artist communities throughout Brooklyn and Queens which continue to expand to this day.

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Jen and Paul’s One Stop Shopping and Souvenir City opens TONIGHT! 6pm on W. 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues.

ArtFagCity says “Has Chelsea become such a spectacle of the rich that a bus tour and souvenir shop is needed? Abso-fucking-lutely. Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw are offering insider access to this mysterious world.”

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