OPEN AiR | Crackhead Barney: AN EVENING WITH NIGGA CLAUS

Come get the perfect seasonal photo taken and bring a toy for the Toy Drive during 2025 AiR Crackhead Barney’s 6-hour Holiday Extravaganza! Featuring performance activations, gifts, and a festive screening room.

With cookies by Kyle co. Cookies. More special Guests TBA. Feel free to come and go as you please at any time between 3PM and 9PM.

Crackhead Barney: COME SIT ON NIGGA CLAUS LAP! GIVE ME A GIFT AND GET OUTTA MY FACE! NIGGA CLAUS pulls up in a SLEIGH BUT ITS REALLY A Busted up one wheel shopping cart that squeals. YES another delightful DECEMBER we can spend with NIGGA CLAUS. Bring EGG NOG, VODKA, WIGS, and GIFTS and TOYS and come to CPR, come sit on NIGGA CLAUS LAP for FUN in a WINTERY DECEMBER!

WITH LIVE PERFORMANCES from NIGGA CLAUS ELVES (who aren’t UNIONIZED, BUT WORKing to OVERTHROW NIGGA CLAUS so they can UNIONIZE!) Hes handing out CANDY CANES and UNPAID therapy SESSIONS!

REINDEER AND ALL ! WHITE SANTA IS DEAD LETS REJOICE ON NIGGA CLAUS LAP!!!

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Crackhead Barney was born in Jamaica, Queens to strict religious parents who immigrated to America from Northern Nigeria. She was raised in a one bedroom apartment with her siblings in an era before wokeness and identity politics ruled the cultural landscape and was always taunted for her immigrant African roots and dark complexion. She studied Fine Arts and Media at Hunter College and was told her artwork wasn't shit. Rejected from museums and galleries, she decided to take matters into her own hands and use the streets of NYC as her canvas, painting pictures with her body across the landscape without the need to satisfy the desires of the cultural institutions. Her street performances garnered attention and she began to go viral all over the Internet with people reacting in confusion, laughter, anger, pity, concern, and all the other emotions available to humans. Rejecting any hierarchies that didn't feature her at the very pinnacle, she naturally was attracted to social media where she could form a universe centered on her performance art. She began a “Crackhead Barney and Friends” account on Instagram and TikTok where she’s developed a cult of personality supportive of her creative practice.