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Artichoke Dance Company will present Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus

Dance of the Gowanus

Artichoke Dance Company presents Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus in an ever changing landscape along the superfund waterway in the heart of brownstone South Brooklyn.

Space Shuttle Discovery at Sunset by Mark D Phillips

The Surly Bonds of Earth

Humans in space. Most can name the first astronaut or the first man on the moon. For me, eight other names were burned into my memory because of one of my photographs, Challengers’ destruction. Last week, I travelled to Washington, D.C., to visit the Challenger Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery and to view the Space Shuttle Discovery in her new life as a museum exhibit. This is my tribute to Challenger and Discovery.

Japanese American families at the Pomona Assembly Center in 1942.

Temporary Detention | Forced Assembly

Sharon Yamato and Stan Honda continue their collaboration which we first featured in Moving Walls: Remembering an American Tragedy in 2018 with the launch of www.forcedassemblycenters.com, a multimedia website that provides a focused look at the little-documented temporary so-called WWII “Assembly/Reception Centers.”

Annual Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk from Saturday, May 10th to Sunday, May 18th from 12:00 pm-6:00 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk 2025

Brooklyn will come alive with over 125 local artists at 70 local businesses for the Annual Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk 2025 from May 10 to 18, showcasing the diverse talents of emerging and established artists at galleries,salons, boutiques, restaurants, and home decor shops.

Arthur Ashe and David Dinkins at US Open Arthur Ashe Day 1992

Sportsball at 30: The legacy of Arthur Ashe

The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health celebrates 30 years of Sportsball tonight at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, bringing a new vision to healthcare. Arthur Ashe created the Institute on December 3, 1992, just three months before his death from AIDS.

Following multiple sold-out shows on a floating stage on the Gowanus Canal over Labor Day weekend, The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal will debut several new songs in upcoming performances at Principles in Gowanus on October 4th & 5th.

The Fish Queen returns to Gowanus

Following multiple sold-out shows on a floating stage on the Gowanus Canal over Labor Day weekend, The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal will debut several new songs in upcoming performances at Principles in Gowanus on October 4th & 5th. The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal, a new musical, […]

Green Heron image wins Big E Photo Contest

Mark D Phillips photograph of a Green Heron titled “On The Hunt” captured the 2024 Best in Department prize in the Eastern States Exposition’s (The Big E) Creative Arts Photography Contest. The fair celebrates the people, the food, the livestock, wildlife, shopping, agriculture and music of the six New England states, hosting about 1.5 million revelers annually and this year drew a record of more than 830 Photography Contest entries. 

gowanuscanal.us front page

GowanusCanal.us

Mark D Phillips launches GowanusCanal.us, a new website devoted to his 35-year documentation of the renaissance along and in Brooklyn’s Superfund waterway.