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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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#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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Village Preservation in the Press

…Former Studio, Smithsonian Magazine, July 12 Angelina Jolie Takes Over Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Former NYC Studio, Hyperallergic, July 10 Angelina Jolie is renting Jean Michel-Basquiat’s last New York apartment, Daily Herald…

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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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History Remembered with Preservation and Plaques

…128 East 13th Street (left), which served as home and studio for influential abstract artist Frank Stella for 27 years The building went through another conversion in the decades to…

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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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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs

…reach out to their neighbors, recruit new members, create group structures, organize events, and make important alliances with each other and with other grassroots groups in their neighborhoods. This is…

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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village

…Brown, who also wrote the best-selling children’s story, The Runaway Bunny, used the house as her residence and writing studio. Throughout the 1940s, she shared the home with her partner, socialite Blanche…

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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…the house as her residence and writing studio. Throughout the 1940s, she shared the home with her partner, socialite Blanche Oelrichs, who used the pen name Michael Strange. Brown wrote…

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Business of the Month: Love Child, 9 Patchin Place

…what was meant to be a downstairs temporary studio where she taught drop-in yoga classes. “When we opened, just as a yoga studio, we found that many expecting or new…

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

…issues of race and discrimination of his (and our) day. Basquiat was already a successful studio artist when, on September 15th, 1983, events transpired in the East Village that inspired…

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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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#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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#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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tour of the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation with Executive Director Sasha Davis

…Gross Foundation with Executive Director Sasha Davis. The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit that preserves and interprets the historic home, studio, and art collections of renowned 20th-century…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Labor Demonstrations Nothing New for Village

…hall, drag ball showcase, and recording studio. But it was also the site of critical events in the history of organized labor. From GVSHP’s nomination of Webster Hall for landmark…

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Neighborhood History

…Great Jones Street, Individual Landmark Related Issues: 128 East 13th Street – Frank Stella Studio/Horse Auction Mart Back to Top Immigration in the Village During the early 19th century new…

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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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Lannyl Stephens

Director of Development and Special Events After directing the 18th Annual Spring House Tour, Lannyl Stephens joined Village Preservation as Director of Development and Special Events. As a consultant, producer,…

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2022 Village Awardee: Jane Friedman and Howl! Arts

…has already held over 500 events and played a major role in helping the East Village remain a hotbed of artistic activity. Howl! Arts grew out of the Howl Festival,…

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Webster Hall’s First Ball (of many)

…drag, and then sponsored their own events by the 1920s. Among the many notables who attended events here at this time were artists Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray,…

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The long road to landmark: How NYC’s Stonewall Inn became a symbol of civil rights

Via NPCA on Flickr Millions converge in New York City each year in late June to celebrate events which took place in and outside of a Greenwich Village bar in 1969. The Stonewall Riots are not…

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Village Pride & LGBT Establishments

…fest and a special celebrity pride broadcast featuring Janelle Monáe, Billy Porter, and many more. The Stonewall50 Consortium offers a useful calendar of LGBT events and programming that can be accessed virtually during…

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A Call for Consistency: LPC and 186 Spring Street

…given that, by the LPC’s own admission, the historically significant events and figures associated with the house date to the 1970s and early 1980s, it is that era of the…

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Village Halloween: No Tricks, Just Treats

…this weekend and beyond to celebrate. You can find all the festive things you are looking for here in the Village. We have parties, ghosts tours, and even kid-friendly events…

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Basquiat and NoHo

…Del Barrio, Creative Time, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Walt Disney Studios, and David LaChapelle studios. Chaédria LaBouvier is a writer, activist and Basquiat scholar. As a contributing writer for Elle, she…

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Where Music and Passion are Always in Fashion

…By the end of the 1950s, RCA converted the building into their East Coast recording studio and called it the “Webster Hall Studios.” Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Frank…

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Significant Latinx History Sites in the Village

…rallied together and formed Loisaida Inc., which enabled them to stay. The organization hosts events and meetings, as well as a Culinary Incubator, which trains participants in the culinary arts. They also host the annual Loisaida…

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Woodstock: Three Days of Peace, Music, and Greenwich Villagers

…Waverly Place. Richie Havens, the iconic singer and guitarist, passed away in 2013 on April 22 at the age of 72. Though originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, by his late…

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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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#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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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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“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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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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#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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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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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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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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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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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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Merce Cunningham: Dance-Maker, Innovator, Teacher, and Villager

…Villager who made a home at 107 Bank Street with his partner John Cage, and whose studio was for many years located at Westbeth Artists Housing. Cunningham’s life and work is celebrated…

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Women Crush Wednesday: The Wonder of Villager Judy Holliday

…major studios were more interested in the girl with “the natural gift of comedy” than the group as a whole, and Holliday alone was offered a studio contract. She refused…

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Meet the Interns

…co-host of a new podcast, A Table Four 1. Shanta’s work at Village Preservation ranges from administrative and programming tasks to representing Village Preservation at community events. Shanta’s background in…

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Welcome Aboard, Leeanne G-Bowley

…and equity. Leeanne has created impactful events, workshops, and cohort programs here in New York City and around the world. Through a career spanning work with organizations such as Foundation…

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Welcome to the Neighborhood: Kinka, 63 East 7th Street

…through constantly evolving events, merchandise, and services. It is the type of place that rewards repeated visits. So you might as well pay your first one today and set a…

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17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village

…important LGBT landmarks in Greenwich Village – the homes of people, events, businesses and institutions dating from more than a century ago to just a few years ago. Thanks to…

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The Greenwich Village Historic District’s Historic Birthday!

…its bounds — from Washington Square to Abingdon Square, from the New School to the New York Studio School. Historic houses of worship and historic houses, key sites of immigrant…

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Asian-American History in Greenwich Village and the East Village

…boast a long and impressive roster of individuals, organizations, institutions, and events located here that played an important role in the story of Asian-Americans in our city and country —…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Elizabeth Olds

…three stories in 1894. Elizabeth Olds’ studio was located here from the late 1930s to the late 1950s. Around 1967, the influential publishing house Grove Press opened an office here,…

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Theaters of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…1981, the year of her 81st birthday, the theatre was renamed in her honor. HB Theatre 124 Bank Street The HB Studio (the acting studio of renowned theatre artists Herbert…

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Even More Charm Added to Greenwich Village Historic District Tour

…community. For over a decade old houses were being transformed to studios and their facades remodeled to Mediterranean, Tudor and other romantic fantasies. In 1927 builders MacKathryn & O’Sullivan purchased No. 93,…

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Westbeth Announced: August 7th, 1967

…disused former Bell Telephone Labs on the block bounded by West, Bethune, Washington, and Bank Streets along the Greenwich Village waterfront into subsidized housing and studios for artists and space…

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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village

…Haley via Public Radio International 13. Alex Haley Writing Studio In the 1960s writer Alex Haley conducted over fifty interviews with Malcolm X in a writing studio he rented at 92…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Celebrating Women’s History Month

…York City. The neighborhood South of Union Square was also home to several important events in women’s history. And so this Women’s History Month, we are celebrating the many female…

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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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The Ashcan School and the Beginnings of the Whitney

…1914, Whitney established her Studio in Greenwich Village, presenting exhibitions of works that were otherwise disregarded. In 1916 she commissioned Robert Henri, leader of the movement, to paint a portrait…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Sailors’ Snug Harbor

…Square North is also well known for some famous residents. The Realist painter and printmaker Edward Hopper, along with his wife Josephine Hopper, lived in a studio on the top…

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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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Women Crush Wednesday: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Baroness Who Shocked Society

…emotional reactivity to her surroundings. Enduring Ornament (1913) Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven The Baroness changed the role of a female body in art through an act of performance in the studio…

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Carol Janeway: Ceramicist and Fierce Village Advocate

…image courtesy Victoria Jenssen Janeway’s first studio was located at 67 West 3rd Street, and by late 1945 she had relocated her studio and associated shop to 46 East 8th…

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Glass and the Gilded Age: Tiffany Windows in the First Presbyterian Church

…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…

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The Flatirons of the Village and the East Village

…Streets. Also known as 110-118 Greenwich Avenue, the building was constructed in 1882 to the designs of renowned architect George F. Pelham as studio apartments. Originally known as “The Jackson…

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On This Day: Bell Labs Invents the “Talkie”

…to motion pictures. Major studios balked, and didn’t see the point. But Warner Brothers, then a smaller outfit, took a leap of faith. They sank $3 million into the Bell…

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Robert de Niro, Sr. and the New York School Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare

…he met fellow artist Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942. Around this time de Niro, Sr. and Admiral lived and worked in a loft studio in the area South…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Lucile Blanch

…and movements like Abstract Expressionism, the Ninth Street Five, and “The Club.” Lucile Blanch at work in her studio at 30 East 14th Street photographed by the WPA Federal Art…

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How Much is that Plaster in the Window? Claes Oldenburg’s ‘The Store’

…legendary artistic pasts. GVSHP’s new online tool East Village Building Blocks contains information about every building in the East Village, many of which were the studios and residences of some…

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Joan Mitchell’s Village

Joan Mitchell working on Bridge, 1957, in her studio, 60 Saint Marks Place, New York, 1957. Photo: Joan Mitchell and Rudy Burckhardt. Courtesy Artforum. Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30,…

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From Greenwich Village To The Moon, and Back

…the process. As colleagues at NYU, Draper and Morse naturally became associated in their daguerreotype experiments, using the glassed-roof studio atop the University’s main building to try their hands in…

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Glass and the Gilded Age: Tiffany Windows in the First Presbyterian Church

…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…

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Happy Birthday Martha Graham

photo source: www.loc.gov Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham was born on this day, May 11, in 1894. In the 1930’s, Martha Graham’s dance studio was located at 66 5th Avenue….

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Happy Birthday, Richard Meier

…project of subsidized, affordable studio living quarters for artists. This was substantially supported and inaugurated by the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the complex was converted into Westbeth Artists’ Housing in…

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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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Martha Graham

…her first dance studio at 66 Fifth Avenue beginning in the 1930s and remained there through at least the 1950s. The studio started off as an all-female dance company, and it was…

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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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Finding George Spaventa #SouthOfUnionSquare

…84 East 10th Street, just two doors down from Willem de Kooning’s famous 88 East 10th Street studio, there once was a Villager whom Elaine de Kooning called “a master…

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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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#SouthofUnionSquare — Dance Tour

…innovator had her first dance studio at 66 Fifth Avenue beginning in the 1930s, remaining here through at least the 1950s. The studio started off as an all-female dance company,…

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Walker Evans & Ben Shahn: American Art of the Great Depression in Greenwich Village

Left: Portrait of Walker Evans, Ben Shahn circa 1930. Right: Portrait of Ben Shahn at 23 Bethune Street, Walker Evans circa 1930 When asked about the studio at 20 –…

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