Biennial Videos

Original Cablecast Date: 11/2/2009 On this exciting Prospect Heights episode, we venture through this alluring neighborhood. We visit the iconic Brooklyn Museum, which is one of the oldest and largest museums in the country; Check out some amazing architecture on the Biennial Prospect Heights House Tour; get on the "Soap Box" with Jimmy Greenfield at his aptly named art gallery; and finally, grab a delicious bite from the historic Tom's Restaurant on Washington Avenue.

Experience the magic of Biennial

Part 1 of VernissageTV's interview with David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney (title:THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age). The Sydney Biennial is Australia's largest international festival of contemporary art.

James Kalm hustles through this, the first installment of, the Bushwick Biennial and drags viewers along for the ride. With the audacity of youth, this neighborhood decides to organize its own Biennial and enlists over ten galleries and 120 artist s studios to show the world that there is still creative life at the edges. We visit Grace Exhibition Space for the performance installation by Estonian dominatrix Sandra Jogeva titled Human Touch, Divine Touch . From there we drop in for a beer served from the breasts of Goddess Ben Godward s functional sculpture, then on for an evening visit and tour of the roof lounge at NURTUREART. The nest morning we pick up with a viewing of the Gods of Mars salon at English Kills, and wrap up popping in to see a drawing show at Norte Maar which keeps it all in the family.

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