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Bushwick

Cassette tapes make a comeback at the first-ever NYC Tape Fair in Bushwick on April 27

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Red Hook

Artists turn Brooklyn trash into treasure at Red Hook gallery show

By Susan De Vries

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Gowanus

In ‘Tower Show,’ artists turn an old Gowanus water tank into something beautiful

By Paul Frangipane & Kirstyn Brendlen

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Coney Island drag show, ‘RuPaul’ watch party, brings queer community together

By Lauren Rapp

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Park Slope

Threading the past: Brooklyn Lace Guild revives a timeless craft, honors the women who helped shape it

By Lauren Rapp

Chaos and creativity rule as 22nd annual Idiotarod shopping cart race rolls through Williamsburg

By Lauren Rapp

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Gowanus

‘The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal’ explores love, history and waste in floating production

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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42nd annual Coney Island Mermaid parade provides an ‘antidote to despair’ with color and glitter galore

By Kirstyn Brendlen & Erica Price

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Seas the day: Coney Island Library makes a splash with ‘Mermaids & More’ exhibit

By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil

The Washed Ashore exhibit is now at the New York Aquarium!

New immersive exhibit at New York Aquarium highlights dangers of ocean plastics

By Emily Davenport

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Gowanus

‘Creatures of the Canal’ surface at first annual Gowanus Art Parade

By Gabriele Holtermann

Vibrant asphalt art is making its way to Downtown Brooklyn streets.

Downtown

Downtown Brooklyn streets brighten up in time for summer with vibrant asphalt art by Austrian creator

By Jada Camille

Atlantic Avenue gears up for annual ArtWalk

Downtown

‘Bringing together neighborhoods’: Atlantic Avenue gears up for annual ArtWalk

By Isabel Song Beer

Ivy Karlsgodt poses for a portrait inside her Bedford-Stuyvesant home studio on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Karlsgodt hand makes lamp shades for her business, Ace of Shades.

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Bed-Stuy artist makes lampshades cool again

By Isabel Song Beer

Dumbo Improvement District unveils second volume of projection project.

City life on the big screen: Second volume of Dumbo Projection Project goes live on Manhattan Bridge, BQE

By Isabel Song Beer

Visitors at the Museum of Failure's opening in Industry City.

Museum of Failure opens at Industry City to great success

By Isabel Song Beer

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Downtown

‘Real life’: New graffiti art show brings 25 well-known artists to Downtown Brooklyn

By Ximena Del Cerro

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Prospect Heights

First-of-its-kind art installation at Prospect Park Bandshell encourages viewers to look inward

By Joanna Insco

Gowanus

Gowanus Open Studios to highlight arts community ‘in the face of rezoning’

By Joanna Insco

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Exhibit exploring NYC’s history of sanitation on display at Floyd Bennett Field

By Jessica Parks

More from Around New York

Marti Gould Cummings fires up the audience at a demonstration near Stonewall in February.

NYC Pride announces five grand marshals for 2025

Former NYS Assembly Member Michael Blake (79th District).

Mayoral candidates discuss Immigration Policy during local forum

Friends Academy is a middle school rooted in Quaker pedagogy, which means that the school teaches students to see and share the unique light that is in themselves and in others.

New York Family

Friends Academy: Middle School Success in High School and Beyond

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Judge extends order blocking ICE from re-establishing Rikers Island office in win for City Council