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The Art of the Artist’s Studio

…architectural features, the artist’s studio. So we thought we’d use the occasion of these warm August days to conduct a brief survey of some of our favorite artist’s studio windows…

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The Art of the Artist’s Studio

…African Queen” in the studio at #172. Sadly, #178 has since been demolished. First, for those who might not be familiar, artist’s studios are spaces generally inserted into the upper…

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Plaque Honoring Longtime Studio of Artist Frank Stella at 128 East 13th Street to Be Unveiled November 8

…assembly-line training center during World War II, and from 1976 to 2005 as the studio where Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most important artists, created some of his…

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When NYC’s Last Surviving Horse Auction Mart, and Frank Stella’s Former Studio, Were Almost Demolished

…landmark the building and save it from demolition.) Most recently, the building served as the studio of Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most notable and influential artists. Few…

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Happy Birthday Electric Lady Studios…

…by none other than Jimi Hendrix, Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street was built to provide Hendrix with affordable studio space that would also meet his personal technical…

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Electric Lady Studios: Jimi Hendrix, And So Much More

…Studios at 52 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. On August 26th, 1970, the studio opened, the only recording artist-owned studio at the time. It provided Hendrix with affordable studio space that would…

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The Modernist Jewelry Studios of Greenwich Village

…barrier to entry for jewelry-making was lower than for other types of art. Between the 30s and the 60s, modernist jewelry studios sprang up all around Greenwich Village, with many…

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Studio Windows: A Preservation Victory

…as the Bryant Park Studios and the Central Park Studios. In the Village, however, artists’ studios tended to be carved out of the top floors of ‘tenementized’ row houses —…

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The Social Realist Artist Studios of 240 West 14th Street

…West 14th Street as their studio address at various points throughout the 1930s. A sketchbook by Lena Gurr (who later kept a studio in the building) lists 240 West 14th…

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Franz Kline’s Last Studio at 242 West 14th Street

…Historic District shaped 20th century American art. Jackson Pollock kept studios at 49 East 10th Street, 46 Carmine Street, and 47 Horatio Street; Willem de Kooning had studios at 827-831…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked? 53 East 10th Street, Home of Apostolic Studios

…and wares, by the 1960s it was producing an entirely different product. It became the home of the highly sought-after Apostolic Recording Studios, the first 12-track recording studio in the…

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Jewelry Makers of the Village and their Provincetown Summer Studios

…Museum of Natural History on Lobel’s silver sculptures of animals. Following these exhibitions, Lobel opened up a summer studio in Provincetown, which he ran until 1953. His studio in New…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: MORE Artist Studios at 30 East 14th Street

…30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959. May Janko and Agnes Hart kept studios there. One particularly notable collection of artist studios…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: The Artist Studios of 30 East 14th Street

…the 20th century. Façade of 30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959 30 East 14th Street, the middle building of the…

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The April 1950 Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35

…loft building Studio 35, the space remained an important locale for artists to gather and learn from each other. The Lively Friday evening gatherings at Studio 35 featured conversations and lectures from…

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“Where is the artist rich enough to rent a studio in Greenwich Village?”, they asked in 1921

…an earlier wave of Village gentrification. And although it was referring to an artist’s studio and not a studio apartment, many similarities exist to today’s issues of displacement and gentrification….

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The Evolution of the Lichtenstein Studio

…his studio, 1986. Image via LPC application “I love the idea,” said Dorothy in the NY Times, “that the studio which Roy loved so much will continue to have meaning.”…

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33 MacDougal Alley, the Lost Studio of Isamu Noguchi

…North and West 8th Street. Varying in height, many of these buildings were converted to artist studios in the early 20th century as more and more creative talent called the…

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Westbeth – Adaptive Reuse Trailblazer, Home, Studio, and Community for Over 50 Years

…Greenwich Village waterfront into subsidized housing and studios for artists, and space for arts, cultural, educational, and community institutions. The adaptive reuse process was undertaken from 1968-70 by a careful collection…

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2015 House Tour Preview: The Studio of Jack Levine

…the property, the current owner says Levine lived here for decades. According to the homeowner, Levine used the top floor of the house as his studio. Although it’s now a…

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Watch the Unveiling of Our Latest Historic Plaque: Frank Stella

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Roy Lichtenstein Plaque Unveiled, Marking Transformative Artist’s 100th Birthday and His Former Studio’s Transformation by Whitney Museum

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How One Building Turned Greenwich Village Into an Artists’ Mecca

…one another and the world. Bernice Abbott’s 1938 photo of the Tenth Street Studio Building. MCNY The Tenth Street Studios building, located at 51 West 10th Street, was built in…

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Fred W. McDarrah’s Greenwich Village and the East Village of the 1950s and 60s

…the time) artist-run recording studio at 52 West 8th Street after experiencing cost overruns and creative frustration at traditional commercial studios. While Electric Lady Studios would go on to become one of the…

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Artists Homes of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…lived here. 10th Street Studio Berenice Abbott photographed the building in 1938. Photograph from the collection of Museum of the City of New York The Tenth Street Studio Building 51…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Musical Heritage and History

…recording studios. The renowned record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee John Hammond made his very first recordings at the Columbia Phonograph Recording Studios at 55…

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Making Beautiful Music Together: The Grammy-Winning Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare

…of the first boutique studios in the city, RPM Studios was founded in 1976 by classically trained electronic composer turned studio owner Robert Mason. The studio was known for being…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 30 East 14th Street Artists’ Loft

…he added another room, Studio O, on the fifth floor. Howard Daum “Studio with Black Cat,” 1954 of the artist’s studio at 30 East 14th Street. Photo courtesy of the…

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Very Superstitious…

…the best gear available. Electric Lady Studios established the precedent of artists owning their own studio space rather than relying on studios owned by recording companies. The building at 52…

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Recording Pioneer Rob Mason’s Life on 12th Street

…member of the band worked for Rob in the studio at the desk, as an assistant, gopher, or even an intern. Rob intended to use the studio for his own…

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#SouthofUnionSquare: Home to (even more) Trailblazing Artists, Dancers, Labor Leaders, and Birth Control Advocates

…American assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop Art — moved into his studio here in 1955. While living here, Indiana claimed, he could see into Willem de Kooning’s studio at…

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The Painters of 108 through 114 Waverly Place

…the purpose of the studio changed. In 1912, Shinn had a stage installed converting the cottage studio into a 55 seat theater for his newly founded theater group, the Waverly…

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Village Preservation 2019 House Tour — See You There!

…York Studio School Located along MacDougal Alley, the former studio of heiress and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney served as our ticket pick-up location in 2018. The studio’s most arresting feature…

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The Clay Club: Shaping Sculptural Legacies in Greenwich Village

…artist Isamu Noguchi’s first studio was located at the Clay Club. His studio and residence, listed as 33 MacDougal Alley, was located at the rear of 4 West 8th Street…

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Chaim Gross on LaGuardia Place, and “The Family” on Bleecker

…Whitney Studio Club at 10 West 8th Street, and – his first solo exhibition – at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005),…

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2021 Village Preservation Public Programs Round-Up

…event recording now! Tour the South of Union Square 128 East 13th Street, Frank Stella’s Studio, as taken by Hew Evans of Village Preservation Virtual Plaque Unveiling: Frank Stella’s East…

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Uta Hagen: Actor, Teacher, Author, and Human Rights Advocate

…Village-based HB Studio, founded by her husband Herbert Berghof. Hagen was also a an uncompromising human rights advocate. Though she was placed on the Hollywood blacklist for a number of…

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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho

…Keith Haring’s studio. 1. Pfaff’s, 647 Broadway Pfaff’s beer cellar in 1857 with Walt Whitman seated, via Wiki Commons This beer and wine cellar in the lower level of what…

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2015 Village Award Winner The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation

The ground floor studio of sculptor Chaim Gross. Image courtesy of the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation Off the Grid is highlighting the winners of GVSHP’s 2015 Village Awards, in…

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New York School Painter Janice Biala’s “Pendulating Spirit”

…Sessions at Studio 35 (Biala background left). From The Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35 (1950), edited by Robert Goodnough. One memorable passage in the conference transcripts concerns the question: “How…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Atelier 17

…influential art studio to make a home in the environs around South of Union Square was Atelier 17, a printmaking studio founded in Paris circa 1927 by Stanley William Hayter….

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Remembering Jimi Hendrix

…and its acoustics, said he recalled Hendrix living in a cottage at 50 West 8th Street one wall away from Electric Lady Studios. Jimi and producers at Electric Lady Studios….

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House Tour Preview

…North, the long time home and studio of painter Edward Hopper. 8 West 8th Street has served as home to the New York Studio School since 1964. The buildings were…

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Spring House Tour Benefit Surprises and Delights

…once ubiquitous in this area and now rare. The infamous “flame” fireplace in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio. The tour began at the original Whitney, now the New York Studio School,…

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10 (more) of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Artist Studios Artist’s studios on Bleecker Street, via Village Preservation Greenwich Village may not be the only place in New York with artist studio windowsinserted into old buildings. But no place…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, Mexican Muralists Remake American Art: David Alfaro Siqueiros and the Experimental Workshop

…studios and workshops in the area South of Union Square. Siqueiros (center) and members of the Experimental Workshop in front of portraits of American Communist Party Candidates for president and…

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Khalil Gibran: An Immigrant Artist on 10th Street

…Khalil Gibran’s Studio on West 10th Street Gibran’s Studio Apartment at 51 West 10th Street The now-demolished 10th Street Studios were built in 1857 by James Boorman Johnson and…

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Memorializing Our Neighborhoods’ Remarkable Past One Plaque At A Time!

…II, by Frank Stella Another trailblazer found his base of operations just down the street from the Martha Graham studio: Frank Stella. A painter, printmaker, and sculptor, Stella has shaken…

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My Favorite Things: Andrew Berman Edition

…from which its name is derived. The building was specifically intended to attract artists, with 10 one-room studios with casement windows, similar to the “artists’ studios” which had been popping…

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From Mark Twain and the Lovin’ Spoonful to Tech Hub: The overlooked history of Union Square South

…be similarly converted and saved. Photo by Beyond My Ken / Wiki Commons 128 East 13th Street From 1975 to 2005, this former horse auction mart housed the studio of artist Frank Stella….

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Remembering Willem de Kooning

…central to the Abstract Expressionist school of the 1940’s and 1950’s. He had previously had a studio on Fourth Avenue but the space at 88 East 10th Street served as…

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Off Broadway Theater Update, Part 3

…striving to make sense out of the constrained circumstances we find ourselves in, and still are finding and creating new ways to keep us thinking and engaged. HB Studios on…

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Hans Hofmann and the Village

…October of 1936 Hofmann moved the school to 52 West 9th Street in Greenwich Village (and the GVHD), a still-extant rowhouse with a dramatic two-story studio window within a setback…

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Village People: Frederic Church

Frederic Church was a central figure of the Hudson River School, and kept a studio at the 10th Street Studio Building. (This post is part of a series called Village…

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Edward Hopper’s Village Muses

…studio on Washington Square. That studio remains preserved at 3 Washington Square North, where Edward Hopper lived and worked for 53 years. This is but one of many sites in…

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Willem de Kooning at Home

On March 23, 1962, Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah took a group of photos of Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning in his studio and home at 831 Broadway. De…

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Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village: The real-life inspirations behind his paintings

…way for St. Vincent’s Memorial Park and the New York City AIDS Memorial, which now stand in their place. New York Studio School; photo via Wikimedia Hopper’s big break came in…

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African-American Music Crosses Genres #SouthOfUnionSquare

…connection to the culturally rich but endangered area of Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square, home of (among other great sites) the legendary RPM Recording Studios…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Isabel Bishop

…– 14th Street” New York Public Library Digital Collections. 74-76 5th Avenue circa 2019 via Google Maps. Isabel Bishop’s 9 West 14th Street Studio (no longer extant) highlighted in red,…

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Jazz and Jewelry: The Life of Art Smith

…at her studio in Greenwich Village, even trusting him to run the shop for months when she was away. At Mason’s studio, Smith cultivated his personal style. Alexander Calder was…

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The Star Spangled Banner and the Village

…August 26th, 1970, Hendrix opened his Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street. It was the only recording artist-owned studio at the time, and it provided Hendrix with affordable studio space that…

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Fingers Crossed for Another: Individual Landmark Designations We’ve Won

…the building, which her predecessors would not do. The building was landmarked on October 28, 2014. Click HERE for the designation report. Former Van Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart/Frank Stella…

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Alex Haley and the Village

The renowned writer Alex Haley was born on August 11 in 1921. In the 1960’s, the Haley rented a writing studio in the back of the Greenwich Village building at…

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Lady Gaga’s Greenwich Village

…Hendrix, Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street was built to provide Hendrix with an affordable studio space that would also meet his specific technical and aesthetic needs. Kicked…

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The Hallowed Music Halls of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Hendrix opened Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street. A recording studio that continues to draw in some of the biggest rockstars of the past almost 50 years, the…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The Whitney Museum of American Art

…the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture since 1964. Courtesy the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Interior of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Greenwich Village studio featuring a custom…

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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy

…constructed in 1891 as a sculptor’s studio at a time when rear stables were frequently converted to artist’s studios. As a result, the building was designed to look like it…

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LPC Spotlights Women in the Arts

…sole owner in 1930. During this time, she opened the Whitney Studio galleries and Whitney Studio Club in 1918. As her name suggests, she was born into one of New…

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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village

…by Beyond My Ken on Wikimedia 2. Moretti Sculpture Studio 249 ½ East 13th Street Next stop is this incredibly charming little building located just west of 2nd Avenue. Located in the…

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Fulfillingness’ First Finale: A Stevie Wonder Classic Born of Pain, Recovery, and Greenwich Village

On July 22, 1974, Stevie Wonder’s seventh studio album, Fulfillingness’ First Finale, was released by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. The classic album, considered the fourth of five from…

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This is Radio Clash

…at Electric Lady Studios. So impressed were The Clash with Blaney’s work at Electric Lady Studios that they hired him and the studio to record and produce their next and…

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Elvis is in the building: July 2, 1956

…Hall, the recording studio wasn’t set up that way. RCA actually refashioned the space with state-of-the-art technology. Webster Hall was at that time known as RCA’s East Coast recording studio…

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Making Photographic History #SouthOfUnionSquare

…maintained a studio at 8 East 12th Street, made his name with the image of Bob Dylan called “Dylan With Sunglasses and Cigarette,” while working for a Swedish news agency…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Chaim Gross

…the 20th century. Chaim Gross in his 63 East 9th Street studio Photo credit- © Alfredo Valente, c. 1938. Throughout the 20th century, the area south of Union Square attracted…

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My Favorite Things: West Village Edition

…which its name is derived. The building was specifically intended to attract artists, with 10 one-room studios with casement windows, similar to the “artists’ studios” which had been popping up…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare: The Upcoming Demolition of 813 and 815 Broadway

…studio at this address. Not only was Macnabb highly sought after for his technical skill, the studio’s “central location” was a draw for sitters. By the mid-20th century, 813 Broadway…

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Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti — East Meets West (Village, that is)

…Village. Physical Graffiti was mixed at Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street, one of the most storied recording studios around. And of course this was not the only…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Pop Culture

…Street? 12 East 12th Street Designed, built and operated by classically trained electronic composer turned studio owner Robert Mason, RPM was one of the first boutique studios in the city,…

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Labor Demonstrations Nothing New for Village

…East 13th Street, a remarkable building originally a horse auction mart for the likes of the Vanderbilts and the Belmonts, which served as the studio of artist Frank Stella from…

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Happy Birthday, Paul Robeson

…he posed in the artists’ studio overlooking Washington Square. It’s no exaggeration to call Robeson a true Renaissance Man. He’s also one of many prominent figures featured on GVSHP’s Civil…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

…and was passionate in his belief that American had a greater role to play in that regard. As with all his beliefs, Jay, who lived at 22 Washington Square North,…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Sonia Gechtoff

…the 20th century. Sonia Gechtoff at Canal Street Studio, New York (1960s). The area south of Union Square, which Village Preservation has proposed be designated an historic district, has attracted…

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Great NYC Museums Go #BeyondTheVillageAndBack

…School’s home on West 8th Street today, which had been the Whitney’s first site Prior to founding the museum, Whitney founded and hosted the Whitney Studio and Whitney Studio Club…

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127, 129, and 131 MacDougal Street: Architecture, Artists, African Americans, and “Alternative Lifestyles”

…the creation of a roof “studio dormer” by linking its two dormers (pre-1920) and lowering the first-story windows as storefront windows (c. 1950s). The addition of these “artists’ studio” windows and…

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Michael Stewart, and ‘Defacement’

…Manhattan. Basquiat’s former studio at studio at 57 Great Jones Street In the fall of 1978, Basquiat met fellow downtown artists and scene-makers Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, both major…

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Village Preservation Historic Plaques Honoring African Americans in Our Neighborhood

…Studio Located at 57 Great Jones Street, this plaque commemorates the site of the home and studio of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat forged an innovative and inspiring language that melded…

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Westbeth, Punk, and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop: SD50

…Rhymes, with the number 50 coming from the number of their studio in Westbeth. Geeby Dajani at Studio 50 in Westbeth. Source: Dante Ross. Throughout much of the early 1990s,…

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Native American Contemporary Art Sites in our Area

…51 West 10th Street Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996) (Cherokee) had a studio in the 51 West 10th Street Studio Building in Greenwich Village. Smith was a Co-Founder of the New…

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In Death, As In Life, Marcel Duchamp Left Mystery

…when he died in 1968, he left a big, beautiful mystery in his studio at 80 East 11th Street. Marcel Duchamp with one of his readymades. (Courtesy: youtube.com) Conceptual Artist…

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Take a Peek Into Six Greenwich Village Homes

…Studio, 1928 (left). Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Whitney Studio, 2010 (right). Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Conservation Laboratory. Additionally, the New York Studio School, which will serve…

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A Truly Historic House Tour! Village Preservation’s 21st Spring House Tour in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…fascinating pasts. Last year’s tour even included a delightful arc linking two of the locations. The tour began at the New York Studio School, originally Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio and…

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Willem de Kooning Standing on his East 10th Street Stoop, and at the Center of the Art World

On April 5, 1959, Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah snapped this iconic photo of Willem de Kooning on the stoop of 88 East 10th Street, his home and studio from…

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Ellen Emmet Rand, Artist and Villager

…[his] going in and out of the studio with snakes and spiders.” Portrait of Ellen Emmet Rand by Mary Foote She started her career in New York City in a…

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“London Calling:” The Clash and the Village

…spent considerable time in the Village, recording their album Combat Rock and the single “This is Radio Clash” at the Village’s iconic Electric Lady Studios, for London Calling it’s the…

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Rich and Varied Legacy

…and the Village. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in her studio 1920 Married in 1896 at the age of 21 to Harry Payne Whitney, who hailed from a family of similar wealth…

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Holiday Cheer, and Gifts, in Greenwich Village

…Studio. Richard walked us down 8th Street to our next stop – the fabulous store and studio of artist Storm Ritter. Graey Studio‘s home on West 8th is a two-story…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 815 Broadway

…C. Westervelt. Within this tiny building was located one of the city’s most prominent photographic studios (at a time when photography was still a relatively new and novel invention) and…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Yasuo Kuniyoshi

…East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. One particularly notable collection of artist studios was located at 30 East 14th Street, a five-story structure built in 1880 as a retail store…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 55 Fifth Avenue

…long after the OKeh Phonograph recording studios occupied the building as well. Some of the most consequential recordings of twentieth century American music were made in these studios, which remained…

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The Village, through the lyrics of Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift during a recording session at Electric Lady Studios in 2019, photo courtesy Electric Lady Studios At the age of 24, after spending a decade building her music career…

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