liam rowe

Review of Brooklyn Arts Library

It's one of the most depressing and uninviting pla...

It's one of the most depressing and uninviting places I've ever been to. Immediately we're told that we can't touch any of the books in this so-called "library," we have to use an app or the iPad on the wall to order one and an employee will give to us. Okay, that's fine, it's art. But then we can't tell the difference between the sketch books, they're all strangely uniform. What am I going to do, go through an app to have a random sketch book delivered to me by the woman standing a few feet away? Strange. It wasn't until the end that I realized that they're selling the blank sketch books for 50$ so you can fill it up and send it in to be on "display." They want artists to pay them for a minuscule chance that someone will see their unique art. That's not okay. The whole experience left me sad.