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November 2, 2007
The Museum of Drunken Art
MetroNY
By Amy Zimmer
The latest cultural happening from inside the footprint of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards:
What is the Museum of Drunken Art?
Well, it’s not exactly a museum, and the work doesn’t necessarily need to have been created while drunk (though its so-called director, Peter Teraberry, said inebriation helps the viewing). Many are just doodles and dirty jokes inked on bar napkins.
The collection makes its city debut Saturday night at Freddy’s, the bar that sits in the footprint of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project.
“Some people draw very well when drunk. Others don’t,” said Teraberry, an art handler who’s friends with many artists he collects. “Jackson Pollack did it very well. Teetotalers are welcome to do it. It’s more the drunken spirit. ... It’s basically anything uncouth and unpretentious.”
Much of the work was created at Freddy’s, which has a drop box for patrons’ submissions.
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O’Finn, a painter, has turned the bar into a haven for kooky artistic happenings like the drunken art museum and other regular events such as Cringe Night (readings of doggerel about high school crushes), Diva Night (professional opera singers stop by to perform arias) and Diorama Lodge (the bar picks a theme at the beginning of the craft night).And as the epicenter for Atlantic Yards foes, it stopped serving Brooklyn Brewery beer when that company’s owner spoke in support of the $4 billion project. They replaced it with Blue Point toasted lager.
“Business is better every week,” O’Finn said. Though Forest City Ratner owns the bar’s building, O’Finn seems unfazed. “We’ll deal with it when it comes to that, if it comes to that.”
Posted by lumi at November 2, 2007 8:26 AM