We’ve officially set up our gallery to be all things BabySkinGlove for the exhibition entitled Løök: A Retrospective of the Future. Enjoy some pics of the pre-DINNERfix vibe.

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Deal of the Week: Sixpoint Cans

If you haven’t already heard, Sixpoint Brewery out of Red Hook, BK has released four of its most popular lines in 16 ounce can form. 

This week CULTUREfix will be celebrating these tasty brews by offering them for only $1 from 5-7:00!  Just mention our Sixpoint special. 

Food Special: Crispy Rice with Shrimp and Kimchi, $8.  

Art Updates

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BabySkinGlove Events: Løök: A Retrospective of the Future

Culturefix is hosting a 2 week performance art piece from June 28^th to July 10^th. For all the intriguing information click here. Tickets are on sale NOW.

Culturefix Gallery and Overturn Theater Ensemble present:

“Telephone: A Game of Multi- disciplinary Communication”

Culturefix Gallery and Overturn Theatre Ensemble have teamed up to create an exhibition of food, music, art, and theatre.  Comprised of food created by Ari Stern, music composed by Michael Vincent Waller, artwork by 16 artists, and short plays written by 16 playwrights, “Telephone” focuses on the translation of ideas through multiple mediums.

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New Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 11am - 4pm

CULTUREfix will be now be open during the day, Wednesday through Sunday.  Guests can come and use the gallery as an open space.  It’s a fantastic sunny space to work, create and hang. Tea and pastries will be available. 

BabySkinGlove Events: Løök: A Retrospective of the Future

Culturefix is hosting a 2 week performance art piece in from June 28^th to July 10^th. For the full calendar of events click here and check back here to buy tickets online.

Food Fact: DINNERfix “Daddy Says Eat Your Veggies” is coming up.

Check out the full menu here and buy tickets here.

Weekly Drink Specials:

Beers of the Week:

Flying Dog Brewery - In-Heat Wheat, ML

Smooth, full-mouth feel, fruity and spicy aroma. Loaded with signature Hefeweizen characteristics - banana, clove, and bubble gum. The Hefeweizen is perfectly paired with salads on a late spring evening including green, seafood and fruit salads.

Dubuisson Brewery - Scaldis, Belgium

Scaldis Refermentee is a 12% ABV amber ale brewed expressly to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Scaldis. Like Scaldis, it has deeply aromatic notes of praline and vanilla. Thanks to a fine dosage of yeast, it undergoes a fermentation in the bottle that further deepens the complexity and fullness of body. Suitable for cellaring.

Scaldis “Refermentée,” is less sweet, has an earthier nose and fine, creamy texture, the result of a slow, natural refermentation in the bottle. It’s a new entry from Dubuisson, newly available in the US.

Wine of the Week: Ermita de Nieve Verdejo

100% Verdejo, harvested by hand during the first week of October. 12 hours of cold maceration were followed by a light pressing to extract the free run juice. The wine (must) underwent slow alcoholic fermentation for 20 days. Afterwards, it aged in stainless steel vats with its lees for several weeks. Stabilization and light filtration occurred before bottling in late November 2008.

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Beers of the Week:

• Left Hand Sawtooth - ESB, USA

“Two guitars, bass and drums. It’s all you’ll ever need. Sessionable. Unpretentious. Our original flagship. Proof that a beer can be both complex and balanced. Malty chewiness slowly transitioning over to herbal, earthy hops with a dry finish. Brewed to be enjoyed with friends and to stimulate serendipity.”

• Mahr’s Ungespundet Hefetrub Lager – Germany

The family-owned Mahr’s brewery makes a good example bearing the legend Ungespundet hefetrub. “Hefe” means yeast. “Trub” has the same root as trouble, turbulent, or turbid, and refers to the yeasty cloudiness.

Mahr’s Bräu Ungespundet hefetrub has an alcohol content of around 4.1 percent by weight, 5.2 by volume. It pours with a big, creamy, long-lasting head; has a golden-bronze color; a wonderfully fresh, perfumy hop aroma; a remarkably smooth, almost oily, malty, palate; very fresh flavors; and a spritzy finish.

• Vanberg & Dewulf - Hop-Ruiter - Belgium/US

What happens when America’s original importer of Belgian artisan ales pairs up with one of Belgium’s most dynamic renegade microbreweries? You get the next logical step in Belgo-American cross-fertilization - Vanberg & DeWulf’s Hop Ruiter.

This 8% ABV bottle-conditioned strong golden ale combines Belgian appreciation for aromatic esters with the American love of hops. The balanced blend of the two is being simultaneously launched in the US and the Low Countries. Based on early response we think it is going to be a Belgo-American classic.

• Dubuisson Brewery - Scaldis, Belgium

Scaldis Refermentee is a 12% ABV amber ale brewed expressly to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Scaldis. Like Scaldis, it has deeply aromatic notes of praline and vanilla. Thanks to fine dosage of yeast, it undergoes a fermentation in the bottle that further deepens the complexity and fullness of body. Suitable for cellaring.

Scaldis “Refermentée,” is less sweet, has an earthier nose and fine, creamy texture, the result of a slow, natural refermentation in the bottle. It’s a new entry from Dubuisson, newly available in the US.

Cheese of the Week: Camembert Fermier

You can get Camembert anywhere around this big city of ours, but believe it or not, none of the Camembert that you will find follows the true recipe of Camembert production. The source of this argument comes down to pasteurization.  

Camembert is a young, unpasteurized cows milk cheese, meaning the wheels are aged less than 90 days and the milk is not cooked before pouring into the wheels.  Unfortunately for us American cheese lovers, this process makes the importation of true Camembert illegal. Until recently we have had to suffice with pasteurized milk.  This week, CULTUREfix brings you one of the only unpasteurized Camemberts that you will find in the United States.  From Il de France, Ferme de Jouvence has begun using a process of sterilization that retains the good bacteria that young cheeses like Camembert hold, and retains the flavor and texture of the unpasteurized cheese that have proven to be simply better. This process is called thermalization, and the effects are astounding. Come try this wonderful cheese.

Art Facts: New Exhibition at CULTUREfix

Murmurs, an exhibition of recent epoxy resin paintings by Eric Finzi that explore the emotional narratives of couples, will be on view at CULTUREfix gallery from May 20 through June 19, 2011. Presented by Sloan Fine Art Projects, the exhibition, Finzi’s fourth solo show in New York, will open with a reception on May 20 from 8:30-10 p.m

Finzi uses his studio as a laboratory in an exacting experiment in which time, temperature and the polymerization of resins and pigments each play a distinct role in paintings that feel organic and continue to puzzle long after they are first viewed.

In describing his manipulation of his toxic medium of choice, Finzi says, “the resin ends up doing a lot of the painting; it has its own intelligence. The thermodynamics of polymerization result in a certain chaotic type of order when you put pigment into it.”

Read the full description here.

Urban Art: Street art comes full circle at CULTUREfix

The story goes like this:

Three months ago a slightly inebriated gentlemen guest was unjustly complaining about the lack of hooks at CULTUREfix’s bar. Everyone behind the bar pointed out the plethora of hooks that can be found around the bar area, but the guest would not let down.  He was so adamant, that he gave us his wife’s credit card and demanded that we charge him $100 to acquire additional hooks. 

If you are a frequent reader of our weekly emails, then you might remember us discussing an artist named Eric Whitney who installed multiple sculptures around Clinton street. These pieces consisted of figures made out of plaster that were installed high up on tree trunks. Currently attending SVA, Whitney specializes in sculpture using found objects and materials. We at CULTUREfix, sought out Whitney and commissioned him to make us hooks to fulfill the donation and request of this one time guest at CULTUREfix. So thank you, Eric, and thank you kind stranger for your donation to the arts.

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