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June 16, 2013 Bust Magazine Launches BUST Craftacular Summer Series: Bust Magazine is launching the BUST Craftacular Summer Series, an event series that will be held in five cities across the US this summer. The series will include a marketplace featuring craft vendors, DIY workshops, music and entertainment. The events will be held in Brooklyn, NY; Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO; and San Francisco, CA. Each event will feature a variety of handmade and vintage items, including jewelry, art, clothing, accessories, paper goods, home décor, and more. There will also be DIY workshops, music and entertainment, food, and drinks. June 22, 2013 BUST Magazine Announces Craftacular Summer Series: BUST Magazine has announced its Craftacular Summer Series, an event series that will be held in five cities across the US this summer. The series will include a marketplace featuring craft vendors, DIY workshops, music and entertainment. The events will be held in Brooklyn, NY; Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO; and San Francisco, CA. Each event will feature a variety of handmade and vintage items, including jewelry, art, clothing,
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever. By Prudence Peiffer. HarperCollins, 2023. 432 pages. WITH ITS DUTCH NAME, uneven cobblestones, and salt-kissed air, the inlet known as the Coenties Slip is situated adjacent to the East River’s waterfront, not far from the largely empty offices of Wall Street and the urban mall of South Street Seaport, on the fringes of that commercial core today referred to as “FiDi.” From the mid-nineteenth century to the time of World War I, Coenties Slip was a lively and tawdry enclave, populated by a bustling mix of sailors, dockworkers,
Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action, by Nadja Millner-Larsen, University of Chicago Press, 2023. 288 pages.THERE ARE MANY PATHS through the radical arts of the 1960s. Nadja Millner-Larsen’s Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action takes one back alley and turns it into a bustling boulevard.Her central figure: Ben Morea, artist-activist and acolyte of the Living Theatre and of East Village anarchist Murray Bookchin; member of Aldo Tambellini’s anti-commodification mixed-media Group Center; cofounder of the Neo-Dada provocateurs known as Black Mask (their name likely
Officials from the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan district attorney’s office on September 1 seized an ancient Roman bust from the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in Massachusetts. Thought to depict a daughter of either Marcus Aurelius or Septimius Severus, both Roman emperors, and dating to between 160 and 180 CE, the life-size bronze sculpture is estimated to be worth $5 million. WAM purchased the work in 1966 and at the time conducted research into its provenance, but admitted that they received little information other than that it had been found in southwest Anatolia (now Turkey)