Does anyone know where I can find Gastronomica in this city? I’ve called and emailed (2x each) McNally-Jackson Bookstore and it is still a mystery as to why they don’t currently have the latest issue.
Will I ever be able to rent in Manhattan (and do I want to)?
Desperate Art Galleries Give Up as Chelsea Rents Double : Bloomberg
Ok. I’ll admit when I saw this my first reaction was “OH BOO HOO. Pretentious art gallery has to move back downtown while I can barely afford my “four bedroom” loft (complete with five people) in Bushwick.” Sorry art dealers of Chelsea, I’m just not feelin’ your pain here.
But this did get me thinking: If high-end art dealers can’t afford $30,000+/mo for rent (WTF THAT’S HALF THE COST IN WHICH I GREW UP), then who the hell can?
It’s my understanding that most of this space will now be rented to the types of businesses that can afford it: Starbucks, Duane Reade, luxury boutiques, and some lavish condos. What I’m really not getting here is who on earth can afford these pricey apartments?
I see this happening all over the city. In Brooklyn, it’s gentrification (and it’s a damn shame), but what is this going on in Manhattan? Manhattan rent is already beyond exorbitant already. Can the “1`%” of the world afford multiple NYC condos while the rest of us continue to be pushed to the fringe of of the city? Are they just going to take over Manhattan and make it into a high-rise resort island for the uber-rich?
This bubble has gotta burst at some point right?
Feel free to jump-in at any time and explain this nonsense…
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Opens June 1, 6-9p:
”Fissure and Facture”
Justin Berry
Interstate Projects, 56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY
L train to Morgan Ave
Justin Berry’s first solo show in New York. Berry looks at imaginary worlds with the same sensibility that he uses to look at the real one. His photographs of video game landscapes and fantasy novel covers reveal nuanced portraits of the worlds that we long to visit but can never attain. He explores the legacy of the photograph and addresses its future at the same time. His pictures are taken with scanners and screen captures that are altered and cropped and laboriously reconstructed. In a world suffused with imagery, and with new tools for image making emerging daily, Berry does not add to the profusion of images, he refines those that already exist. - thru June 30
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”Pen and Ink and You and Me”
You Byun
East Village Center, 75 E. 4th St., NYC (bt 2nd Ave & Bowery)
You’s work is a ritual that recollects and records personal memories and emotions.
- thru June 15
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Opens Thurs, May 10, 6-8p:
Akikazu Iwamoto : New Paintings
Stux Gallery, 530 W25th St., NYC
the first solo show of drawings and paintings by Japanese artist Akikazu Iwamoto. Akikazu creates wildly imaginative, candy-colored paintings and drawings that offer confronting, amusing, and sometimes frightening revelations of our inflated inner desires in their most distilled state.
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