Ambitous Arts Center Coming to Red Hook

The Times profiled Dustin Yellin’s renovation of a warehouse in Red Hook that the artist is turning into an arts and cultural center. The space will include “a large-scale exhibition hall, an artists’ residency program, a sculpture garden and hosts of visitors for symposiums and public programs.” Renovating the warehouse, which is being called Pioneer and King, is costing Yellin an estimated $2 million. The space is supposed to have a soft opening later this month. The article notes that the scope of Yellin’s ambitions are reminiscent of P.S. 1, and Yellin “sees Red Hook as a kind of anti-Chelsea, its relatively cheap rents and remoteness from Manhattan making it a prime setting for a grass-roots cultural operation.” Yellin hopes that an investor will eventually buy the building and turn it into a nonprofit. Click through for a shot of how the interior was looking as of this weekend.
An Artist’s Big, Big Plans for Red Hook [NY Times] GMAP