Brooklyn Artists
A partial list of artists who are either active in Brooklyn or hail from Kings County.
Steve Buscemi - Film and television actor and director
Kyle Bobby Dunn - Composer, sound artist and arranger
Jennifer Egan - Novelist and short story writer
Jonathan Safran Foer - Writer
Jhumpa Lahiri - Author
Jonathan Lethem - Writer Mark Morris - Modern dancer, choreographer and director
Lynn Nottage - Playwright
David Salle - Painter and leading contemporary figurative artist
Danny Simmons - Abstract-expressionist painter
Sufjan Stevens - Singer-songwriter and musician
John Turturro - Actor
Colson Whitehead - Novelist
Jeffrey Wright - Film and stage actor
Andrea Zittel - Installation artist
Read more about Brooklyn Artists: Arts Organizations
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