For The Better

This year’s theme, “Gowanus Under Construction,” invited participants to reflect on the gentrification of the historically industrial Brooklyn neighborhood. 

The inaugural Indigenous Puppetry Institute saw the convening of contemporary practitioners of a form practiced for centuries.

Fluorescent ’90s vagina art, looped films, and tender papier-mâché sculptures were on display as part of the South Brooklyn neighborhood’s annual open studios.

Rhee’s paintings change from pictorial presentations of a lush, dreamy world to a tangled web of different viscosities when we approach the surface. 

The artist reminds us that decay is full of energy — not just an ending, but part of an endless circle of life.

Meeson Pae’s work creates safe space to contend with the phenomenon of our biological inner-workings and the opulent worlds they create.