Photo by Ellen Goldberg

Ellen Goldberg, a former student of Westbeth actor and director, Nancy Gabor, entered the rethinking preservation contest at DWELL Magazine.

She nominated Westbeth as a place that should be preserved and her entry is one of the semi-finalists in the contest The top ten vote getters on line go to the finals where a team of judges will name the winner. That winner will receive $10,000. In order for Westbeth to be in the top ten, YOU MUST VOTE ONLINE FOR WESTBETH.

Ellen has designated Westbeth and Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation as the recipients, if the Westbeth nomination is the winner , and each would receive $5000.

HERE IS THE LINK TO VOTE
DWELL MAGAZINE VOTE FOR WESTBETH

LU 0551-2011
Landmarks, Bell Laboratory Complex a.k.a. Westbeth Artist Housing, 445-465 W. St, 137-169 Bank St, 51-77 Bethune St and 734-754 Washington St, CD#3 (20125192 HKM (N 120098 HKM)

Land Use Application

Application no. 20125192 HKM (N 120098 HKM), pursuant to §3020 of the Charter of the City of New York, concerning the designation by the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the Bell Laboratory Complex a.k.a. Westbeth Artist Housing located at 445-465 West Street, 137-169 Bank Street, 51-77 Bethune Street and 734-754 Washington Street (Block 639, Lot 1) (List No.449, LP-2391), Council District no. 3, as an historic landmark.

Spirit Series
2008—2012
Jonathan Bauch

Artist’s reception

Thursday, February 23, 5 to 7 pm.

At the Westbeth Sculpture Annex Gallery
55 Bethune St. entrance, between Washington and West Streets

Exhibition continuing through Saturday March 24.

jonbauch@nyc.rr.com
www.jonathanbauch@blogspot.com
212 741-0739

Westbeth Home to the Arts

Thursday, February 16 at 6:30 pm

Join filmmaker George Cominskie at a screening of Westbeth—Home to the Arts, a documentary selected for the 2011 Manhattan Film Festival. The film explores the unique history of the recently landmarked Westbeth Artists Residence in the Far West Village.

Westbeth was created in 1970 as affordable housing for artists by the J.M. Kaplan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. This intimate film shows how Westbeth revitalized the arts in a changing Greenwich Village and demonstrates why every large city around the world should have its own Westbeth.

For Reservations:

Thursday, February 16
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Westbeth Community Room, 155 Bank Street
(between Washington & West Streets)
Free; reservations required.
RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35
http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/events/upcoming.htm#westbeth

Avri Ohana

The Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present the work of veteran New York artist Avri Ohana in a solo show of current paintings. The exhibition opens on February 18 and runs through March 4, 2012. Gallery hours are†Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

Opening reception: Saturday, February 18 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

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Ohana’s new body of work represents a playful, humorous and somewhat phantasmagorical distortion of the human figure, saturated in bold colors. These figures, which often display cross-gender tension and performative gaze, spring from the canvas in a spontaneous, uninterrupted manner.

The paintings represent a radical departure from Ohana’s former work, the colorful abstraction of microscopic forms—his “Biomorphic” series—as well as from his landscapes, which will also be on display.

Born in Casablanca, Ohana has lived and worked in Israel, Europe and the United States. He was an early member of Ein Hod, Israel’s artist village, and it was there that he developed his voice as a unique artist. Ohana is primarily a colorist. His art reveals a restless temperament in constant search of the perfect abstraction. Ohana’s recent paintings overlap and juxtapose the figurative and the abstract.

www.avriohana.com
avriohana@earthlink.net

Contact: Zeeva Cohen, 212-691-1568, zcohen@princeton.edu

Classic Tales and Fables

with lots of fun for the very young.

Very simple and perfect as an introduction to theater - New York Magazine
Warm, funny, direct and charming – Gannet Newspapers