Thank You!
OCTOBER 1ST, 2011, NEW YORK CITY

The New York Times

“Included in the festival, near the India Street Pier at West Street, will be light displays, dance performances, video projections and concerts; similar events will take place in Paris, Brussels and Toronto”

The Huffington Post

“Retains the radiant wit as it grows. Glows”

ArtSlant

“One turn of the corner from a standard Brooklyn block, and epic projections climbed the walls of a towering warehouse. We had made it to Bring To Light”

Time Out New York

“More than 50 artists illuminated the Greenpoint neighborhood with dazzling displays, which created a picturesque scene out of Saturday’s gloomy weather”

The Village Voice

“Featuring established and emerging artists, the exhibit showcases more than 50 variations of light and sound shows, performances, and new-media project. If you get lost, just follow the light”

WNYC

“Streetlights will be off and streets will be blocked off so that art lovers can revel in videos projected on the sides of Greenpoint’s industrial buildings or on water towers”

Art in America

“‘Commercial Break,’ a highly anticipated video program that never properly debuted during the 2011 Venice Biennale, will premiere on the industrial New York waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn”

Art Observed

“A glowing sky over Greenpoint in Brooklyn drew several thousand art and light enthusiasts for the Bring To Light | Nuit Blanche New York 2011 light festival, a one-night event on October 1st”

Flavorwire

“The gorgeous and strange site-specific light, sound and performance pieces cut through the rainy night, creating an atmosphere of shimmering wonder for all who attended”

CBS

“Throughout the evening, emerging and established artists will make site-specific installations of light alongside performance and projection art”

ARTINFO

“Now art fans get another chance to see the event — in Brooklyn. An alley in Greenpoint, to be precise, where the ‘Commercial Break’ program of videos will make its new public debut during the upcoming Bring to Light: Nuit Blanche New York festival”

Architizer

“Bring to Light takes over a stretch of the Greenpoint waterfront, bringing people and activity to a portion of the neighborhood that is primarily industrial and often creepily quiet at night”

Greenpointers

“If you missed it last year, don’t miss it again. It promises to be bigger and better than last year, which is saying a whole lot. Last year was mind-blowing!”

Fuji TV

DNAinfo

“The East River Ferry will serve a dual function on Saturday night, carrying festival-goers back and forth across the river and hosting an installation titled ‘Splitting Image’”

This Week in New York

“In fact, executive director Ethan Vogt and director of operations Tom Peyton got the city to allow access, just for one night, to several areas that are usually closed to the public”

Artnet

“The evening has some high-profile participants that promise to make for a memorable event. It all kicks off at 6 pm with the premiere of a short-film anthology from Weston Currie and Grouper (aka Liz Harris), The Perception of Moving Targets”

Brooklyn Based

“Bring To Light has expanded exponentially in size since last year, when most of the work exhibited came from local artists in the Greenpoint community”

Urban Omnibus

“The people who brought us Flash:Light NYC are bringing together an even greater collection of artists to light up the industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn for the second year of Bring to Light: Nuit Blanche New York”

Refinery 29

“This innovative art show will only take place for one night, so make sure you keep your Saturday evening cleared for an eve under the star—your stars!”

Artlog

“Varying greatly in process and viewpoint, these range from site-specific works freshly conceived for the occasion, like video artist Alex Villar’s Splitting Image, an ode to an epic ferry commute set to play on the East River Ferry”

Gothamist

“This Saturday, the darkest corners of industrial Brooklyn will be exposed as part of the Nuit Blanche: Bring to Light festival, an all-night arts extravaganza taking over the Greenpoint waterfront”

NYCGO

“Bring to Light invites emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations—creating an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine the New York waterfront, experiencing it anew”

Greenpoint Gazette

“Bring to Light is a free nighttime public art festival that takes place simultaneously with “nuit blanche” events in cities around the world”

Art Media Agency

“Richard Serra, Liz Diller & Ricardo Scofidio, Rita Ackermann and Chakaia Booker feature among artists, designers, film producers, writers and musicians”

Art in New York City

“Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art, the event creates an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine public space and civic life”

Cvent

“Nuit Blanche means ‘white night’ in English. I like to think of it as what happens when all the lights are left on for one night. That’s exactly what happens in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Tokyo and other cities every year”

Brooklyn Daily

“A little bit of Paris magic is coming to the Greenpoint waterfront on Oct. 1, when its streets will be illuminated in a glorious ‘La Nuit Blanche’, a production of Bring To Light”

Dexigner

“Bring to Light is a free contemporary art festival that will transform an industrial stretch of the Greenpoint, Brooklyn, waterfront into a hive for the generation of art, spectacle, ideas, and community on Saturday, October 1, 2011″

Free Williamsburg

“This Saturday, creatives will light up the Greenpoint waterfront”

Fotoblog

“Bring to Light will transform streets, parks and the industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn set against dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline”

Fader

“This weekend, NYC’s Bring To Light festival will descend on Brooklyn, bringing art, film, and music to the Greenpoint waterfront”

Otto

“Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art, the event creates an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine public space and civic life”

Room 100

“In its second year in Greenpoint, the New Yorkevent, dubbed Bring to Light, features scores of artists making a scene inside and out, and even special ferry service fromManhattan for the G-train-phobic among us”

Bushwick Daily

“All in all, the festival was again a vibratingly beautiful, fantastic experience”

Brooklyn Street Art

“With more than 60 separate installations and performances all over the place, it is an event open to the public and it claims public space as our space for creativity, interactivity, and community”

Metro

“Scores of artists making a scene inside and out”

New York Shitty

Make

“The Bring to Light organizers invited artists to make site specific installations of light, sound, performance, and projection art in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn”

CNN

“Billed as a free night time public festival of art taking place with ‘nuit blanche’ events in other cities in the world Greenpoint was transformed into just that and more”