Last night was a relatively early evening for Bushwick’s Third* Most Popular Blog. Still, we lusted after some art and collectively reacquainted ourselves with the emotional depths of an old Floyd tune.
The night started out at the 950 Hart Gallery, a collective of Bushwick artists…
950 Hart Gallery’s new exhibit was “Mushroom Universe“:
Assembled by BushwickGallery.com and curated by Bushwick Daily‘s mastermind Katarina Hybenova, the aggregation celebrated the 1990s in all of its confused but lavish glory, across two floors:
Matthew Mahler’s “Celestial Groove“:
Matthew Mahaer's Celestial Groove
A burly DJ named JoJo spun 90s gold:
Though it wasn’t part of the exhibit, Antoniette Johnson‘s “Alone and Still Standing” called us from across the room:
"Alone and Still Standing" by Antoinette Johnson
Gorgeous! Despite the $2 drinks, Tipsy (“I’ll have a vodka and vodka”) McGee was not impressed by the crowd: “There are way too many fashionless 20 something man childs here. And people who think they’re über cool by mix matching prints.”
We chatted with Bushwick artist B. Thom Stevenson, who, btw, has a book signing tonight at Marc Jacobs‘ Bookmarc in the West Village, for his “No Time For Prayers”:
Free keg beer if you buy the book!
Another topic of conversation was how Chelsea’s Luhring Augustine gallery is opening a Bushwick outlet–at the behest of some Bushwick-based employees of the gallery. Artists are here everywhere, man!
The gallery’s move here is Big City validation for the emerging Bushwick scene, somebody enthuses! Hope they show local artists, suggests another. Bushwick Kitchen is great, but the prices are a little steep for Bushwick, grumbles a third.
Quote du jour: “Glitter is the herpes of the craft world.”
Anyway, come closing time, we decided to make our way through the cold and snow-threatening night, to Pearl’s. First, though, a pit stop at BushwickNation Headquarters to finish the private stock and spin a few love songs to Brooklyn:
“One More Night In Brooklyn,” by Justin Townes Earle
and the most excellent “Brooklyn Girls” by Charles Hamilton (“I ain’t got no problems with girls out in Harlem but they ain’t nuttin like a Brooklyn girl”)
“Nie an mich geglaubt.”by Fler answered the question of if Germany had decent rap.
"Made You Look," by Tracy Jacobs
Pearl’s turned out to be surprisingly slow for a Friday night. Tipsy: “Gonna rove around searching for a lumberjack that can dunk.”
Both barkeeps and staff sang along to Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” …
…as some guy across the bar whose date went to the bathroom gives Tipsy an amorous glance…
We ran into Wayne from Northside Tattoo, always an articulate gent. We chatted about the not one but now two after-hours clubs supposedly battling it out in Bushwick. Where are they? Look for the fliers on the street, Wayne advised. A club is probably near where the fliers are most concentrated. Quote: “After hours club? I can’t let you know I’m going there. By that time of the night, I barely know I’m going there myself.”
And one more shot before we call it a night, “Bam Bam” by Sister Nancy.
*Actually 4th, we just found “The Brooklyn Dream.”
