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In ‘Tower Show,’ artists turn an old Gowanus water tank into something beautiful

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Apr. 4, 2025 By Paul Frangipane & Kirstyn Brendlen How much can a water tower mean to a neighborhood? Quite a bit, according to the artists of Gowanus. Last weekend, Arts Gowanus opened its fourth annual “Tower Show,” featuring nearly 200 individual works of art all depicting the same object: the old water tower…

First lottery opens for affordable artist studios in Gowanus

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Jan. 7, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen A lottery for six affordable artist studios in Gowanus— the first of more than 100 such studios slated to come to the neighborhood in the next few years — is now open.  The studios, built as part of a Community Benefits Agreement signed ahead of the Gowanus rezoning,…