Category Archives: Past Events

PEN Literary Safari – New Yorker, Paris Review and more!

Last night I watched a talented American actor read a talented Romanian writer’s story. Neither is famous in America but they should be.
New Yorker Magazine Book Bench Blog Review 29 April 2011

In the evening we are invited to a huge turn-of-the-century building, with something of the Phalanstère to it, entirely inhabited by artists. This is the Westbeth…
Paris Review blog of Amelie Nothomb

L Magazine

Above it All – Tania Retivov: 30 april – 15 May

Solo Photography Exhibit

Westbeth Gallery

Hours:
Thurs – Sunday 1pm – 6pm
212 989 4650 for an appointment.

“Above it All” consists of two major parts – Water Towers in New York City’s urban environment and the mostly pristine (but endangered) waters of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia and its surroundings. The common thread is water.

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Carl Stein — Presentation & Discussion: 21 April, 7pm

Carl Stein, FAIA, former President of the Westbeth Board of Directors, in his new book, Greening Modernism makes a case for a more unified and holistic architecture that reaches a sustainable synergy through building reuse.

Mr Stein, an architect with long experience in greening and sustainability pays particular attention to the balance between the qualitative aspects of science and the more effect-driven aspects of utility and human experience.

With a slide presentation of his work and the work of others, Mr Stein will engage in an in-depth discussion of greening and sustainability opportunities in the prospect and shelter aspects of our lives.

In Community Room Thursday 21 April at 7 pm