Outlaw art — Patterson’s Outside In retrospective at Howl Arts bridges back to the grassroots creativity of pre-gentrification NYC.
Written by: Alex King
Crowdfunded, open source art — The Sketchbook Project is an open-submission collection of work from 33,000 artists, housed at the Brooklyn Art Library. Fill in a sketchbook and take part in one of the largest public art projects in the world.
Written by: George Kafka
Prison tattoo guns, Fake IDs and bullet-proof backpacks — New York City’s Mmuseumm helps visitors make sense of the madness of modern society through its curated selection of cultural ephemera.
Written by: HUCK HQ
Save NYC street culture — Filmmaker Nicolas Heller’s No Your City web series celebrates the city’s larger than life characters, who are being threatened by ongoing gentrification of the Big Apple.
Written by: Alex King
Stop NYC eating its children — Gentrification is suffocating New York’s creative culture. We spoke to #SaveNYC campaign founder Jeremiah Moss to find out why it’s time to fight back.
Written by: Alex King
No more rags to riches — Writer Alan Kaufman and artist Clayton Patterson discuss how their personal journeys of social advancement and creative expression no longer seem possible in today’s NYC.
Written by: Alex King
Beyond noise — As Kim Gordon released her memoir Girl in a Band, we unearth this piece from her’s and Bill Nace’s curated section in Huck 42 - The Improv Issue. Tokyo-transplant Ikue Mori surfed the rise of No Wave on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1970s and continues to push at the boundaries of improvised music to this day.
Written by: Michael Fordham
Love Saves The Day — A selection of tracks drawn straight from the floorboards of modern dance culture’s Mecca.
Written by: Gabriela Helfet
Myths in the rave — New York-based photographer Shane McCauley describes travelling the world with prolific deejay and producer Diplo to document the disparate music scenes blowing up the underground.
Written by: Shane McCauley
Field Notes from the 2014 UnsOund Surf Pro NY — Waves and wild behaviour at the 2014 UnsOund Surf Pro NY captured by photographer Emily Winiker.
Written by: Emily Winiker