BushwickBK’s Art Editor Stephen Truax has some helpful tips on navigating this weekend’s explosion of art that will save you time and heat exhaustion.

Maximize the efficiency of your Bushwick Open Studios 2010 experience, and take it from me: you have to prioritize!  Bushwick is enormous.  Over 300 things happening over four square miles in two days can be too much. This critic’s recommendation is to hit the huge converted factory buildings that house 20 to 30 studios in the same building.  2 to 5 minutes per studio, and you can get in and out in half an hour and cover more ground. Grab a program to check the locations or better yet, load the Bushwick Open Studios map on your phone and get out there.

Group Shows and Sales:

330 Morgan Ave. 3rd Flr: TALAS, Seeking Space (BOS overflow), 30+ artists

1 Grattan St. #215: Daily Operation “World’s Greatest”
All works will be $50 or less. (Great list of up and coming artists!)

Group Shows about throwing something together for a group show:
Are we noticing a theme?

1040 Metropolitan Ave: ISCP – Out of the Blue – Group Show

910 Grand St: NURTURE Art – Unrealized: Conceptual Bushwick – Group Show

Huge Studio Buildings with Multiple Open Studios:

119 Ingraham St: Brooklyn Fireproof  (17 open spaces!)

117 Grattan St: (15 open spaces!) — Critic’s Pick: Joe Nanashe, Jamie Powell (#218)

56 Bogart St: (14 open spaces!) — Critic’s Pick: Jonathan Van Dyke (Ground floor, north side)

1717 Troutman Street: (20 open spaces!) — Critic’s Pick: Sarah Faux, Tatiana Berg (Studio 326)

1182 Flushing Ave (3 open spaces!) — Critic’s Pick: Brooke Moyse

505 Johnson Ave. (2 open spaces!) — Critic’s Pick: Matt Jones #18, Zane Wilson #19