Arts Recommendations from The Mirror Cube

A site dedicated to music, film and artistic happenings, as recommended by an array of working artists

Perhaps no one knows the music, film and art scenes better than those within them. Communities form and flourish, and engage other active creators. Highly collaborative art leads to highly connected scenes with an escalated awareness of what’s working and what’s good. That’s the idea behind The Mirror Cube, a new website that documents and promotes independent art events based upon the recommendation of artists …

New York Craft Act

With the recently signed Craft New York Act finally going into effect, small-batch distilleries are now able to serve full-fledged cocktails instead of the shot-like samplers they were once limited to. The new ease of liquor regulations aims to make these boutique distilleries more attractive to tourists and locals in New York, and hopefully elsewhere soon enough. Craft distilleries are already making plans to open …

Studio Visit: Sculptor Matt Kinney

From his live/work space in Beacon, NY, the carpenter and artist creates wooden pieces that brilliantly trick the eye

by Janine M. Stankus In the sun-splayed parlor of his partially renovated 1850s home, Matt Kinney’s artwork mingles with tools of his craft. Paint buckets, sliced and with wood medallions at their mouths, lean beneath a bench strewn with chisels, rasps and mallets. In the corner, a burled axe gleams, nearly swallowed against the swirling camouflage of a matching maple stump. Kinney, a carpenter, creates …