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NYAB covered Artlog, the Williamsburg Gallery, and phillipsARTexpert.com’s guided street art tour last Friday as part of Williamsburg’s ongoing second Friday of the month art happenings.

A preview of their new retrospective at Brooklyn Museum, with “the artist” as tour guide.

On a damp and foggy night in DUMBO, the Art Under the Bridge Festival kicks off with hundreds of artists whose work is displayed everywhere from traditional galleries to, well, under the Manhattan Bridge. The festival continues through Sunday, September 28, 2008.

In its new home on Columbus Circle, the Museum of Arts and Design opens to the public on September 27, 2008. New York Art Beat made it to the press preview. The museum will be open at no charge all inaugural weekend long, so don’t miss it.

The visitors to Chashama can feel like collectors before their first purchases, except that no money or goods need to be exchanged.

NYAB hit the art and technology festival Conflux to talk with artists and get psychogeographic. Today (Sunday) is the final day of Conflux, which features over 100 artists in a series of talks, events, guided tours and performances around the city. All of today’s events are free and open to the public.

Friedman Benda scores the first US gallery exhibition of the Japanese artist’s work.

Etching a tattoo into human skin does not come off as seamlessly as drawing on a blank canvas. One is known as an underground culture, while the other is seen as art. When the canvas itself becomes an image of a human body, tattooing becomes art: Tattoo artists brought together by New York Adorned’s Lori […]

Man of many talents, Dave Tree, threw a silk-screen party at McCaig Welles & Rosenthal over the weekend and invited people to bring in whatever they liked for a printing.

NY Art Beat went on a one day media trip to SCOPE Hamptons yesterday. SCOPE Hamptons, a relatively small size art fair with less than 40 galleries participating, is being held at East Hampton until Sunday, July 27, 2008.