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The DUMBO 1st Thursday Gallery Walk on Thursday. DUMBO 1st Thursday features area galleries and artists’ studios, open from 5:30 to 8:30, on the first Thursday of each month. There is no admission fee – participating galleries are open to the public. Gallery receptions, neighborhood dining and bars, and live music add to the evening’s festivities:

First Thursday Participants include, but are not limited to:

Halcyon, 57 Pearl Street
Jan Larsen Art, 63 Pearl Street
Leo Kuelbs Collection, 50 Bridge St. #516 (at Water)
Powerhouse Books & Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main Street
Tivoli Home, 111 Front Street, 1st floor
DUMBO Arts Center, 30 Washington Street
Spring, 126a Front Street
Smack Mellon, 93 Plymouth Street @ Washington Street

111 Front Street Galleries: (Elevators to 2nd floor galleries are located at 55 Washington Street entrance.)

Brooklyn Arts Council, 111 Front Street, Suite 218
5+5 Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 210
Flavors of Haiti, 111 Front Street, Suite 228
Gallery Twenty-Four, 111 Front Street, Suite 212
Henry Gregg Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 226
Gloria Kennedy Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 222
Nelson Hancock Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 204
Safe-T Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 214
Sankaranka Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 206
s.e.e.d. gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 224
Underbridge Pictures, 111 Front Street, Suite 202
Wessel + O-Connor Fine Art, 111 Front Street, Suite 200

From woostercollective.com, it seems that the alleged Splasher was caught tonight while trying to sabotage Shepard Fairey’s high profile opening tonight in Dumbo Brooklyn. From Wooster Collective:

Two young guys entered Shepard Fairey’s opening night party at 81 Front Street in Dumbo with a backpack. Moments later they were seen attempting to light a homemade stink and smoke bomb that was hidden in a coffee can. As they were setting it off, two guys nearby saw what was happening and managed to stop the guys from igniting it before it went off. Seeing the scuffle, the security guys hired for the evening caught one of the two guys (shown above) while the other was able to get away.

We’ll see if this story is true. In any case, the opening was packed with people waiting in line to get in. The line wrapped around the block. If you didn’t have the chance to go, the exhibition in Dumbo will be on view until July 6th.

[UPDATE: ABC reports about this incident. Also there's no real tie between the Splasher and the guys who attempted the stink bomb.
NY Daily News names stink-bomber and Fairey confronts him saying: "I put a lot of time and energy into this," Fairey told Cooper. "What's your problem?"]

The crowd waiting to get in near the entrance.

The queue around Washington and Water Street isn’t for the ATM at the bank, but for the Shepard Fairey’s opening.

 Could this be the Splasher? (Photo courtesy of Wooster Collective).

For show details, go to jonathanlevinegallery.com/shepardfairey/. More of Shepard Fairey’s work after the jump.

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The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival headliner is coming this Saturday, June 23, with all day performances at the Empire Fulton Ferry State Park from 12-8pm. Ghostface has been announced as the headliner for the third annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop festival. The legendary MC, who is part of the Wu-Tang Clan, will close out the last day of the event along with artists Skillz, Consequence, Tanya Morgan, Emily King, Dres, El Michels Affair, Large Professor, and more. For info and tickets, go to brooklynbodega.com.

Also, tonight, Friday, June 22, an exhibition and book launch party for Charlie Ahearn: Wild Style:The Sampler from 6-9pm, and a screening at Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park at 8:30pm.

In 1982, a small independent movie written, produced, and directed by Charlie Ahearn was released, first in Germany, Japan, and Cannes, then finally in Times Square. Some twenty-five years after its release, Wild Style is truly a classic, having inspired countless artists, musicians, and writers with its unforgettable scenes starring the era’s most memorable personalities. We’re celebrating in conjunction with the powerHouse retrospective book Wild Style The Sampler to be released. With a live set by DJ Disco WIZ!

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This year’s festival is being produced by the Brooklyn Bodega, the Room Service Group and Seven Heads Entertainment.

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What: 6 live bands and drawing session with art models
When: FRIDAY June 22nd; weekly drawing session from 8pm-12am; bands from 12am-4am
Where: Rebar, 147 Front Street, Dumbo

Michael Alan and Toolbox Brennan’s free show at Rebar. 6 live bands.

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What: Lost, Lonely and Vicious Exhibition by Flo Schapiro
When: Exhibition will be on view until July 15th
Where: Halcyon (57 pearl St. @ Water St.), Brooklyn

“Lost, Lonely and Vicious is a collection of fragmentary observations of New York’s streets… its people, places and pandemonium. Taken mostly in Brooklyn, the Bronx and lower Manhattan, the photographs of this series are an attempt to capture the soul, the beauty and the griminess of this amazing city, which continues to shine above luxury condos and Starbucks.” Her photos capture NYC people on the urban streets doing what they love doing.

Flo Schapiro is a Brooklyn-based photographer. She spends most of her free time wandering the streets of New York, photographing whatever catches her eye, engaging in endless conversations with strangers and getting in trouble. She is obsessively drawn towards urban and industrial decay, tunnels, graffiti, street photography, abandoned buildings, old signs, trains and rust. See more images at fuzzyvision-ny.blogspot.com.

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[UPDATE: Click for opening night photos and the stink bomb incident.]

The Jonathan Levine Gallery of Chelsea is joining us in Dumbo for a month-long exhibit of Shepard Fairey’s work. The opening party is tomorrow, Thursday 6/21 7-10pm at 81 Front St. Info & RSVP list at www.jonathanlevinegallery.com/shepardfairey.

What: Jonathan LeVine Gallery in Dumbo Exhibits Shepard Fairey
When: Opening Reception, Thu, 6/21, 7-10pm; Exhibition will be on view until July 6th
Where: 81 Front Street at the corner of Washington Street, Brooklyn

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“Come hang out at the Retreat lounge, shop SEED and have a drink at Rebar (on us)!!”

When: Saturday, June 16th, 12-7 pm
Where: Retreat Lounge, 147 Front Street (btwn Jay & Pearl), 2nd floor, Dumbo, Brooklyn

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myspace.com/seed_designers

Emerging Artists, opens on Saturday, June 9th, 5-8pm.
The show runs until July 22nd.

curated by Suzanne Kim

Theresa Bloise, Tracey Goodman, Virginia Poundstone, Devin Powers, Svetlana Rabey, Jason Rosenberg, Michael Schall, Suzanne Song

Artists’ Reception: Saturday, June 9, 5-8pm
Exhibition Dates: June 9 – July 22, 2007

Smack Mellon’s summer exhibition is curated by an emerging curator and includes artists selected from Smack Mellon’s Emerging Artists Exhibition Program—an annual open call to emerging artists. This year, emerging curator and Smack Mellon’s Director of Exhibitions, Suzanne Kim, has selected eight exciting emerging artists to present their work. These diverse works collectively re-examine and represent existing and imaginary places.

For full details of the exhibition and its artists, go to smackmellon.org.

What: SCARLET BILLOWS, Curated by Marilu Knode; a two-artist exhibition
When: Opening: Saturday, June 9, 2007, 6 – 9 pm
Where: Dumbo Arts Center, 30 Washington Street

SCARLET BILLOWS, Curated by Marilu Knode
a two-artist exhibition featuring:
MELINDA BERGMAN
SANTIAGO CUCULLU

Exhibition: June 9 – July 29, 2007
Gallery hours: Thursdays through Mondays: 12 – 6 pm

Scarlet Billows is the Dumbo Arts Center’s first two-person exhibition. Both Melinda Bergman and Santiago Cucullu employ a wide range of inventive forms to find within a larger social context an alternative, albeit temporary, personal truth.

The lyrics of Kurt Weill’s Mack the Knife, from The Threepenny Opera, inspired Melinda Bergman to name the exhibition, Scarlet Billows. Among Weill’s many collaborations with Bertold Brecht, The Threepenny Opera, adapted from an 18th century English ballad opera, embodies the social and economic upheaval of Germany in the 1920s. The reference alludes to a similar cataclysmic decadence in today’s world i.e. the “scarlet billows” of a knife wound.

While both Bergman and Cucullu employ a complex set of conceptual visual strategies in their works, they express ideas about common reality similar to Brecht and Weill. Both artists use a vocabulary that unravels the pretty niceties of a sugarcoated reality, flaunting a mordant humor towards political actions, which they render alternatively childish and harrowing.

Marilu Knode is a Senior Curator at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona

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Aside from the DUMBO First Thursday Gallery Walk, here are five other events For tomorrow, Thursday in Dumbo 6/7/07

1. By Fribert Cocktail Reception at Tivoli Home
2. Curatorial Talk: Photography and Contemporary Tactics @ Brooklyn Arts Council
3. powerHouse Books and Room Service/Brooklyn Bodega launch The Third Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival
4. Thursday night JAZZ Series at Bargemusic
5. Paella Night at Rice

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1) By Fribert Cocktail Reception at Tivoli Home

When: Thursday, June 7, 6:00 – 9:00
Where: Tivoli Home (in the DUMBO General Store Bar * Cafe) 111 Front Street

“Join us at Tivoli Home to meet Danish textiles designer Kirsten Fribert. Preview the new collection while enjoying white wine and Danish vodka cocktails. Colorful pillows, table linens, tote bags and more – perfect for summer living.”

2) Curatorial Talk: Photography and Contemporary Tactics @ Brooklyn Arts Council

When: Thursday, June 7 from 6 – 8pm
Where: BAC Gallery is located at 111 Front Street, Suite 218

Curator Meredith Wisner will discuss the contentious relationship between photography and painting, from early modernism to the present day. Wisner will outline the points of interaction between the two mediums as well as the critical arguments that resulted in their division. The current erosion of this line of reasoning will be considered in terms of some contemporary works. Participating artists include Rahul Alexander, Monique Ford, Jade Getz, and René Smith.

Meredith Wisner is currently working as an assistant archivist at Condé Nast Corporation, cataloging a recently acquired collection of fashion illustrations by the artist Carl Erickson. She received her Master’s degree in the History of Art and Design, Theory and Criticism at Pratt Institute. Her Master’s thesis, Michal Rovner and the Painterly Photograph, challenges the notion of the photograph as document, and seeks to expose the critical underpinnings of that idea.

3) powerHouse Books and Room Service/Brooklyn Bodega launch The Third Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival

When: Thursday, June 7, 2007, from 6–9pm
Where: The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street (at Water Street), Brooklyn

The Third Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival Launches with Stax Records 50th Anniversary Celebration

- Music by Large Professor and Uncle Ralph McDaniels
- Giveaways All Night Long from Stax Records, Wax Poetics, powerHouse Books, and Brooklyn Bodega
- Drinks provided by Brooklyn Brewery
RSVP to info@brooklynbodega.com (* Put RSVP in subject line)

4) Thursday night JAZZ Series at Bargemusic

When: Thursday, June 7, 8pm
Where: Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn

The first Jazz Night on the Barge with legendary Jazz pianist and composer Dick Hyman.

For reservations and further information, please call: 718-624-2083
or e-mail info@bargemusic.org
Tickets are $35 regular, $30 seniors, $20 students
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5) Paella Night at Rice
When: Thursday, June 7, 12pm-11pm
Where: Rice, 81 Washington Street

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-hideyoshi