Edward Field
Poet Ed Field’s paean to the horrors of war made into award-winning short film. Ed reads his poem A Minor Accident of War recalling being shot down during WWII, see and listen here in an article in The Advocate.
Puppets of New York
Westbeth puppet masters Ralph Lee (Landshark!) and Penny Jones featured in major exhibit Puppets of New York at Museum for the City of NY.
Whitney Staff Art Show
Whitney Museum Staff hold annual show at Westbeth Gallery, building collaboration between two important NYC art institutions.
Village Preservation Oral History Collection
Village Preservation’s oral histories recount the origins and development of Westbeth, including interviews with Tod Williams, Richard Meier, and Joan Kaplan Davidson, Peter Cott, Dixon Bain.
Village Preservation Oral History Collection
Village Preservation holds oral histories for many Westbeth luminaries, including Christina Maile, George Cominskie, Ralph Lee, and Peter Ruta.
A Landmark Anniversary for Westbeth
Westbeth achieves Landmark Status with help from Village Preservation.
Bob Gruen
Famed Rock and Roll Photographer Bob Gruen honored at Music Photo Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady
Iconoclastic Conceptual Artist 1934-2024 New York Times She worked in collage, photography, performance, video and installation, and she dealt forthrightly with the complexities of race and gender… HyperAllergic By Rhea Nayyar | December 13, 2024 From her newspaper collages to her performance persona Mademoiselle Bourgeoise Noire, O’Grady subverted hierarchies from a Black feminist perspective… An […]
The Enigma of Hans Haacke
New York Times Style Magazine, Arts and Letters. “As cultural institutions face an existential crisis over who funds them and how, the 88-year-old artist Hans Haacke is still making curators and collectors clutch their pearls.
Westbeth Featured in Mastercard Audio Walking Tour
THE EXPERIENCE Embark on an immersive, self-guided journey through one of Manhattan’s oldest and most fascinating neighborhoods, Greenwich Village.