Brooklyn Brewery pours its last pint at 79 North 11th Street this week, thirty years after it opened as one of the first reasons to make a special trip to Williamsburg. It's moving four blocks, not closing for good, but the room itself won't survive the move, and that's worth marking properly before the doors shut Saturday night. The rest of the week runs from sheet metal to ceramics to a ninety-sculpture menagerie in Gowanus, the kind of range I like building an issue around.
Brooklyn Brewery closes its original taproom after thirty years, then reopens four blocks away at 1 Wythe Avenue this fall in a space nearly four times the size, with a rooftop bar and its first full kitchen. The stained-glass B sign that's hung over the bar for decades has already made the move. Free with RSVP, and I don't think this neighborhood gets many chances to send off a building properly.
MakerSpace NYC runs a two-hour Basic Use and Safety class on its sheet metal line: hydraulic shears, Beverly shears, finger breaks, turret punches, slip rollers, notchers. Pass it and you're certified to use the equipment on your own as a member or day-pass holder, which I like better than a members-only lockout.
Brooklyn Spark runs a two-day retreat through handbuilding, wheel throwing, and slip casting, the fundamentals of ceramics from form and structure to surface design. Everything gets kiln-fired once class ends.
Powerhouse Arts fills its 22,517-square-foot Grand Hall with ninety animal sculptures from more than sixty artists, Kiki Smith and Maurizio Cattelan among them. The show uses the mythological deluge as a metaphor for the current moment, animals as protagonists and witnesses rather than backdrop. It closes Sunday.
Tiny Arts Supply turns Lego bricks into printmaking blocks for a block-printing workshop open to adults and teens, all materials included.
Silo hands its decks over to Steen and Masht for a free open-decks night, no cover.
Young Bull and Sonny Miles share a bill in Public Records' Sound Room, the smaller listening room off the main floor. It's the kind of pairing I'd build a Thursday around.
Rival Consoles brings his synth-driven live set to Elsewhere's Rooftop, with support from Nuovo Testamento. It's the same Thursday as Public Records' Sound Room show above, if you want to make a full night of it.
AG Gallery is showing new ink drawings by Erica Linnemann, continuous wavering lines that tether a reclining figure to a separate floating head, alongside handmade bookmarks and other small handcrafted pieces. No opening reception, just walk in during gallery hours.
Iris van Herpen's Sculpting the Senses is still up at the Brooklyn Museum through early December
DaSilva discusses his new survey of American shingle-style architecture with architects Thomas Kligerman and Michael McClung, moderated by Kyle Hoepner. A book signing follows.
Sydney Cash
Sydney Cash has spent six decades bending glass into motion. Self-taught, with a 1965 math degree from Wayne State, he found his way to slumped glass forms in the early seventies and later started manipulating Flutex, an old industrial patterned glass, into optically kinetic screens. One result hangs permanently in the Queensborough Plaza subway station, sixteen ten-foot windows that shift as you walk past them. His retrospective at UrbanGlass, "The Ever Curious Man," closes Friday. I'd go before then to see six decades of that work in one room.
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