Art
A Rebuilt Installation of Barbed Wire and Blurred Reality
There is a contemporary preoccupation that our culture — global, Western, 'modern' — will not survive.
Westbeth
Opinion
Remembering the Days When Artists Could Afford Manhattan
Yesterday, Curbed NY posted a nifty map of 15 buildings in Manhattan that were originally built for artists. Ranging from projects with outside funding to artists' cooperatives, the 15 structures mostly dot Midtown and the Upper East and West Sides, with a few outliers in the West Village. It's fun
Art
Weathering the Storm: Hurricane Sandy's Impact at Westbeth (Part Two)
Isabel Borgata is not an octogenarian: she’s 91. She’s also a sculptor who’s been working professionally for the past 70 years. Borgata is not entirely healthy — she has Parkinson’s disease — but she is clear-eyed and resolute, and continues to work everyday.
Art
Weathering the Storm: Hurricane Sandy's Impact at Westbeth (Part One)
“I think nobody believed something like that could happen,” said artist Nancy Goldring. Vibrant and incredibly young looking at 68, Goldring was talking about Hurricane Sandy and the enormous flooding it caused. We were sitting in her spacious 11th-floor apartment in Westbeth, an artists’ housing co