Photo via Hamevugar's Flickr. The Brooklyn Museum housed a Ron Mueck exhibit that we pointed out last year and CubeMe just reported on. The exhibition, now closed, included "about 15 mixed media works on loan from the artist’s collection, major museums, and private collections..that explore the ambiguous relationship between reality and artifice, creating figures that express the contradictions between the real world and the imaginary. The figures seem to be alive: every detail -......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large fight on Fordham Rd. and Jerome Ave. in the Bronx, police activity in the employee parking lot at JFK Airport in Queens, and a pedestrian was struck on East 57th St. and Madison Ave. in Manhattan. Donald Trump owns almost 20% of Brooklyn's Starrett City that his dad bought for him when he graduated from business school. He now advises lower-income residents of the development that "This......

The holiday season is upon us, and with shorter work hours and more days off, it often seems like the perfect time to hit up those museums you never have a chance to. Beware the holiday hours, however. Below is a little cheat sheet of what to expect at the (major) museums over the next month. • MoMA Closed on Christmas day and Thanksgiving day, closes at 4:00 p.m. on December 24. The Museum......

Jean-Michel Basquiat is back in his native Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum's exhibit of his paintings opens tomorrow and runs until June 5. Over 90 of his paintings and drawings will be on display, some of them never before seen by the public. The Brooklyn Museum notes Basquiat's "integration of text and iconography," something he undoubtedly honed while working mainly as a street artist. Some of the drawings are spare, economical meditations, distilling an idea into......