On the Transformation of Williamsburg's Art Community
Image c/o Gowanus Lounge
In Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia, Robert Longo relays how crazy and different Jack Goldstein was for making his studio home-base in Williamsburg during the 1970s. Like many others of his time, Goldstein was one of the first wave of artists to take advantage of its cheap rent and massive spaces, a situation that gave birth to one generation of artists and musicians to the next.
Jumping to present day Kent Avenue's glass tower promenade, it's hard to imagine the opportunity (and poverty) that infiltrated Williamsburg at that time; it seems that those days--if they still exist-- are numbered. Loren Munk of the James Kalm Report recently spoke to Art:21 about the last days of artists in Williamsburg. You can read/watch here.
Comments
that video was incredibly stupid.
Posted by: rasputin | September 9, 2009 07:48 PM