Where We Make Art Now

Wendy Goodman visits four studios in four neighborhoods. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman [Art Studios Week]( Photo: Jason Schmidt Where is art being made in New York right now? It’s not easy to find a space, given the city’s real-estate prices, but what I found was that artists often worked together to help one another out. [Hugh Hayden]( makes art out of a former fruit distributor’s warehouse in East Williamsburg, where he landed after leaving a space in the Bronx that he had gone in on with a group of friends, including [Hannah Levy](, who is still there. I visited [Hiba Schahbaz](, who fell for the windows of an old commercial building in Bushwick and has changed studios several times within it. [Firelei Báez]( credits her ability to adapt to her upbringing, when she moved around often. She got priced out of the Bronx but ended up in a space in Red Hook, and enterprising as they all are, each artist has made their space perfect for what they need. [TOUR THE STUDIOS]( Best, Wendy Goodman 1. [Hugh Hayden Makes Art in a Former Fruit Warehouse Zebras and Barbies and bears and a dog named Mars.]( 2. [Artist Firelei Báez Has Always Kept It Moving “I think growing up in precarity prepared me for the life of an artist because I knew that poverty wasn’t the end of things.”]( 3. [Hannah Levy’s Two Studios in One The sculptor took over a floor of this South Bronx building with ten friends, each carving out their own space.]( 4. [Hiba Schahbaz Pictured Herself Painting Here She loved the Bushwick building’s windows, walking by.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Exclusive Anniversary Offer:](Get a limited-edition tote plus save up to 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. More in Design 1. [A ‘Greater New York’ for Designers At the new Bushwick gallery International Objects.]( 2. [Have You Seen the Courthouse Where George Santos Surrendered? Richard Meier’s behemoth is the Death Star of the Southern State Parkway.]( 3. [Snøhetta Workers Say They Want a Union If they succeed, Snøhetta would become only the second private firm to unionize in almost a century.]( 4. [Mining the Milton Glaser Archives From never-printed Broadway posters to a Manhattan phone-book cover, seven works from the designer’s early decades.]( 5. [How to Design a King Charles III’s coronation is ultimately a performance of majesty. The props matter.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on Curbed]( Introducing [My Week in New York](: a brand-new newsletter from the editors. [Sign up]( to get the next edition this Saturday. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](link.nymag.com/manage/588/optout-curbed?email={EMAIL}&hash=c35b5090289a030d5f71723db89dd233¶m=dh) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved