Avant Gardner

After a tumultuous year, by any metrics, for Brooklyn Mirage parent company Avant Gardner—which saw it file for bankruptcy and eventually sell at a bargain to Axar Capital Management, a longtime lender of the company, after its flagship venue never managed to open—the business is reportedly (very reasonably) seeking a fresh start, beginning with a…

The city wouldn’t let the Brooklyn Mirage open. Now it won’t let anyone tear it down either—at least, not just yet. On Tuesday, the city’s Department of Buildings issued objections to parent company Avant Gardner’s application for demolition, claiming it was missing documents that needed to be completed before it could be reviewed further. When…

The summer may be over, but the action is as hot as ever in the borough—especially when it comes to the touring schedules of artists actually worth seeing, as they’re now freshly unlatched from festival season and all those damn radius clauses. In fact, this fall—which technically began on September 22nd, but experientially has yet…

The show most certainly will not be going on at Brooklyn Mirage this summer (or any subsequent season, for that matter). According to Bloomberg, Avant Gardner, the venue’s parent company, officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning, a move no one at all could have seen on the horizon. The filing, which states Avant…

Three months and a $30 million redesign later, the Brooklyn Mirage remains empty, plagued by failed safety inspections, unmet construction deadlines, and unresolved permitting woes. Now, according to DJ Nora En Pure, the venue won’t be opening at all this summer. The Swiss artist shared the news in a social media post announcing her August…

If it wasn’t clear by now, there isn’t a date left on what remains of the Brooklyn Mirage calendar that’s safe from the venue’s ongoing reopening troubles. In fact, two more weeks of shows appear to have been wiped from the schedule in just the last few days. The latest moves include the relocation of…

August 1 will mark 12 weeks since Brooklyn Mirage promised to be “100% ready” to materialize. Now, just a week and change out from hitting its third straight month since the initial reopening date, the venue’s calendar is not only getting emptier, but it appears the delays and venue changes are already creeping into next…

More than two months after its planned reopening, the Brooklyn Mirage remains shuttered. And Avant Gardner, the embattled East Williamsburg venue’s parent company, is now reportedly trying to sell the business amid ongoing financial and permitting woes. Avant Gardner’s non-executive Chairman of The Board Gary Richards, also known by his DJ alias Destructo, was overheard discussing…

Brooklyn Mirage is well on its way to scrubbing yet another month’s worth of programming from the books. After relocating a two-day Boiler Room event (now at Under The K Bridge), and pulling the plug on their four-show Black Coffee residency, the venue has now moved a pair of sold-out Excision shows to The Great…

In case you weren’t—or, more likely, have given up on—keeping count, we have officially entered week seven of waiting for Brooklyn Mirage to open its recently expanded dance floors to the public. The venue, initially slated to begin its 2025 season on May 1, has been derailed indefinitely due to a failed safety inspection, which…

After Brooklyn Mirage CEO Josh Wyatt pledged to be “100 percent” ready for a May 1 launch, the venue was forced to cancel its opening day performance from Sara Landry just hours before she took the stage. And the weekend’s not looking too promising, either. According to a Brooklyn Paper report, the Department of Buildings put three…

Josh Wyatt has seen the negative comments on Reddit. He’s watched the TikTok videos too. As the first-ever CEO of Avant Gardner, the venue and events company behind The Brooklyn Mirage, he cares deeply about what fans are saying: online, offline, anonymously or not. After a long career in hospitality, Wyatt was hired in October…