{"id":9334,"date":"2010-01-08T10:43:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T14:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:33:59","slug":"obama-art-exhibit-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/9334\/obama-art-exhibit-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: A Cultural Getaway to an Obama Art Exhibit, Film Screening, Gypsy-Jazz Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil and Obama do mix, says Brooklyn artist David Macaluso who has been recycling the greasy substance for metaphorical portraits since 2005; attend the opening reception tomorrow to view his Oil Prez exhibition <strong>Barack Obama: Made in Motor Oil<\/strong>. [tilliesofbrooklyn.com]<\/p>\n<p>The Fishtank Ensemble, a banjolele, musical saw-playing, gypsy-jazz and Klezmer influenced band of four from California, will perform at <strong>BAMcaf\u00e9<\/strong> this Saturday. [nycgo]<\/p>\n<p>If you are a bride-to-be, do not miss the <strong>Wedding Crashers <\/strong>event at the Bell House in Brooklyn tomorrow. [Brooklyn Based]<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Flea<\/strong> resumes this weekend with over 100 small business owners who will vend antiques, wares and vintage of all kinds inside the former Wiliamsburgh Savings Bank; be sure to enter the bank vault for delicious Flea foodie staples. [<a title=\"Brooklyn Flea\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynflea.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BrooklynFlea<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Vice President <strong>Joe Biden expounds on his daily Amtrak rides<\/strong>, and why America needs trains. [<a title=\"Joe Biden news item in Huffington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/joe-biden\/why-america-needs-trains_b_412393.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffingtonpost<\/a>]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>3rd Ward\u2019s <strong>Second Sunday Film Screening<\/strong> returns this weekend with a musical twist and live performances by The Contrails and Brooklyn-based Akwarian Sea Rebel; get ready for some blow-your-mind video mash-ups, great brewskis, and did we mention the free admission? [3rdward]<\/p>\n<p>The Williamsburg acrobatic dance troupe <strong>STREB<\/strong> will put on a free 40-minute gravity defying performance, involving extreme action moves that will inspire you to stick to your New Year&#8217;s workout resolutions, at least for the weekend anyway. [<a title=\"Streb.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.streb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Streb<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Klaus Biesenbach has been tapped as the <strong>new director of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center<\/strong> in Long Island City Queens. [<a title=\"NYMag\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/art\/profiles\/62918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYMag<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Courtesy of Tillie&#8217;s of Brooklyn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil and Obama do mix, says Brooklyn artist David Macaluso who has been recycling the greasy substance for metaphorical portraits since 2005; attend the opening reception tomorrow to view his Oil Prez exhibition Barack Obama: Made in Motor Oil. [tilliesofbrooklyn.com] The Fishtank Ensemble, a banjolele, musical saw-playing, gypsy-jazz and Klezmer influenced band of four from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,325,271],"tags":[40,15,49,1617,20,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-9334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-new-york","8":"category-news","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-cultural-activities","12":"tag-events","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-train"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}