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An Invisible Product Until You Need It—Matthew Mullen, Insurance Man for the New Millennium

June 25, 2013 By Kelley Shields Leave a Comment

Matthew Mullen at his Manhattan Avenue office in Greenpoint. Photo by Chris Bishop

Imagine you are looking for employment and you come across a listing on a job board that reads: “Sales associate wanted, to sell invisible products no one wants to use.’” Can you imagine wanting that job? Can you imagine the difficulty of trying to provide people with intangible, undesirable things? And if you did want it, can you further imagine becoming so good at it that you stand out among others attempting to do the same thing?

Matthew Mullen can. Exclusive agent/owner of the Mullen Agency, at 661 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, his is currently the largest Allstate franchise in the area.

Bookstores: 0 Before, 2 Now. Where? Bushwick

September 26, 2012 By Jason McGahan Leave a Comment

Matthew Winn opened Molasses Books in Bushwick, last month. Photo by Allen Ying

To the transplants who’ve lived in Bushwick the longest, the neighborhood’s grit is nothing short of a virtue, and its lack of creature comforts is a source of pride.

It must have something to do with the factories and cement yards, the scrawny trees and parks without pigeons or squirrels.

Trent’s Top Williamsburg Brooklyn Gallery Picks—October 2011

October 31, 2011 By Trent Morse Leave a Comment

Detail of “No Sleep ‘til Brooklyn,” 2011, an installation by the People’s Art Collective at the Bogart Salon. Photo by Matthew C. Lange

At the center of the Bogart Salon, toys and trash make up a sprawling model of two very different allegorical places, the “Art Scene” and “Hedge Fund City,” connected by choo-choo trains. The model was supposedly devised by a clandestine group of art collectors from the wealthy suburbs of Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County,Connecticut. They call themselves the People’s Art Collective.

In the “Art Scene” section of the model, we find many familiar characters from across Brooklyn’s artsy enclaves—toy figures of bearded men, a deejay, laptop users in a coffee shop, and giant rats along the Gowanus Canal. There’s a box wallpapered in the visage of an artists’ loft called Heartbreak Hotel. And a “Volcano of Youthful Passions” made of empty beer bottles, crushed cigarette packs, foam peanuts, and Mickey Mouse souvenirs, wrapped in tape and painted blue. Crowded and dirty, the “Art Scene” encapsulates an outsider’s perspective of our fair borough, a disdainful view that is more-or-less accurate.

MONOPOLART: The ULTiMAtE ArT ShOW-DoWn with Jen and Paul, 10/9

October 9, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

jen paul catron monoplart tribeca Join Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw for Jen and Paul’s One Stop Shopping Souvenir City and Chelsea Bus Tours to finally determine the ultimate winner of all of ART through the dog-eat-dog world of MONOPOLART.

Jen and Paul’s life-size MONOPOLART board offers you chances to buy and sell your fave Chelsea Artists and show the world how much you know about art, money and auctions. Buy Artists! Sell Artists! MAke$$$.

Roll some oversized dice in this game of chance and skill. Encounter REAL LIFE art scenarios with Chelsea Community Chest! Guests (you!) will SPIN the art wheel to see which of five mega-gallerists you are and begin your art world domination! Unsure if you should BUY or SELL a performance artist, blue chip artist or even a super confusing female artist?!! ConSULt our FAMOUS CRITIC’s corner with important critics (like Paddy Johnson)!! THIS IS NOT A JOKE THIS IS REAL! Winners receive Souvenirs and a free (hot) SHOT of Gilbert and George Gin!

Pasolini’s Outline of a Screenplay for a Film about Saint Paul at Light Industry, 8/02

August 2, 2014 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

pasolini film and discussion at light industry

Pasolini’s Outline of a Screenplay for a Film about Saint Paul (in the Form of Notes for a Production Director)

Light Industry hosts a reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s unrealized screenplay for a film about St. Paul, which is being published this summer in its first-ever English translation. Written relatively late in his career, between the time of his work on Teorema and Salò, it is less a traditional scenario than an evocative treatment, broken down into 112 brief, poetic descriptions of shots and sequences. As with Pasolini’s earlier Gospel According to St. Matthew, the piece reclaims a key episode of the New Testament and reveals the revolutionary political potential of its message.