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Frank Shifreen (born February 29, 1948) is an American artist, curator, and teacher. Shifreen played a significant part in the art movement of New York City in the early 1980s, organizing massive artist-run shows that brought thousands of people to Gowanus, Brooklyn. [3]
Jeff Gompertz, who organized complex media-augmented events with Fake Shop and Floating Point Unit in Williamsburg, and Fisher, who had taught at MIT's Media Lab at its inception in 1985, were invited to join other prominent New York artists at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1999 for a conference on experimental fusions of art and technology.
Since 2003, "art angel" Patrick Huang has welcomed artists with ties to Taiwan to the BAS Brooklyn Artists Studio in Bushwick, charging no more than a few dollars in rent.
BRIC, formerly known as BRIC Arts Media or Brooklyn Information & Culture, is a non-profit arts organization based in Brooklyn, New York founded in 1979 as the "Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn". A presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, it incubates and showcases work by artists and media-makers with programs reaching hundreds of ...
Lyric was an American R&B girl group, which comprised Brooklyn native, Farrah "Fendi" Fleurimond, [1] Los Angeles native Jackie (a.k.a. Baby J), [2] [3] and Detroit native Thema "Tayma Loren" McKinney. [4] They would later be recognized as the first female trio to be signed by Clive Davis to his J Records imprint. [5]
In 2016, she co-founded Smoke Signals Studio in Miami—an arts collective dedicated to music, art, and community organizing. The studio runs on a barter system. Monet explains, "For every hour that someone spends in the this studio to record to make music, we hope for them to give an equal amount of time doing radical, political education or ...
The Gowanus Memorial Artyard was a nonprofit, [1] artist-organized group that put together massive outdoor and indoor art exhibitions in Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York City in the early 1980s. [2] Founded by artists and curators Michael Keene, Frank Shifreen , and George Moore, [ 3 ] the shows featured monumental sculpture parks next to the ...
In 2008, 14-year-old schoolboy Liam Payne confidently strode onto the audition stage of the U.K. singing competition “The X Factor.” Sporting the era’s ubiquitous sideswept bangs, he told ...