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Westbeth Gallery Annex: the 9-11 Decade – 14 Artists Reflect

15 August – 17 September 2011

Westbeth Artists’ Housing is proud to present a new show memoralizing artists’ response in the decade after 9-11. Organized by Brenda Berkman, a retired NYC firefighter, with assistance from State Senator Tom Duane, and subsequent help from Karen Santry – gallery annex coordinator, the Westbeth Artists Residents Council, and Steve Neil, Executive Director, this show is a deep and complex response to the events of that day and the days that follow.

Westbeth Gallery Annex: Enter at the 155 Bank Street Courtyard up the ramp into the Inner Courtyard and turn right. Gallery open 10am – 6pm

Check out NY1 Report on show

Ruby Ornstein – new Smithsonian Folkways cd

Smithsonian Folkways has just published Ruby Ornstein’s cd, From Kuno to Kebyar: Balinese Gamelan Angklung.

The music is played on a set of bronze instruments called gamelan angklung. Ms Ornstein, an ethnomusicologist, chose the tracks from hundreds of recordings she made while doing field work in Bali in the early 1960s.

Not only is it the first CD devoted exclusively to gamelan angklung music, it is also the first in Smithsonian Folkways new “direct-to-digital” series – no cd liner notes or booklet. However a pdf version of extensive liner and track notes is available for download from the Smithsonian website whether or not you order the cd.

Smithsonian Folkways – From Kuno to Kebyar: Balinese Gamelan Angklung

The cd will also be available from Amazon, ITunes, and Rhapsody.

WESTBETH GALLERY – Friends in Steel

Group Sculpture Show
21 May – 5 June 2011

Jonathan Bauch

Featuring the work of Jonathan Bauch, Roya Farassat,
JJ Veronis and Lee Whiting.

I feel that the work adds multiple
voices of steel sculpture to the show
– Jonathan Bauch

Opening: 21 May 5 – 8 pm.
Gallery open Thurs – Sun 1 – 6pm

Joseph Chaikin installed in Theater Hall of Fame

Joseph Chaikin

Joseph Chaikin (1935-2003), was installed in the Theater Hall of Fame in 2010 as director in a ceremony at the Gershwin Theater on Jan. 25, 2011 . James Nicola of the Signature Theatre presented Joe — avant-garde actor, director and playwright, creator of the Open Theatre and best known for his collaborations with Sam Shepard, who said Mr. Chaikin “used words like a sword to pierce the heart,” and Samuel Beckett, who dedicated a poem to him. Mr. Chaikin had an uncanny effect on people, partly because of what Peter Brook called his purity and his “fiery steel-blue eyes.” Famously, he fought back after a stroke to continue to create. Jim Houghton, founder and director of the Signature Theater, received the award for Joe.

Read more:
The Post-Gazette
Theater Hall of Fame

Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective featured in book

The Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective is featured in a new book, Off Off Broadway – The Second Wave 1968 – 1980 by Christopher Olsen, published March 2011.

The playwrights all from Westbeth included Dolores Walker, Chryse (Christina) Maile, Gwen Gunn, Sally Ordway, Patricia Horan, Susan Yankowitz, and Helen Duberstein.

One of the first feminist theater groups to be reviewed in the NY TImes, the group was noted for its ability to balance the serious social message regarding the marginalization of women with a sense of the absurd and a commitment to good writing. – Off Off Broadway

Check it out on Amazon

whitney museum at westbeth

On Saturday May 21st, in celebration of the groundbreaking for the Whitney’s new Meatpacking District location, the Museum will also be hosting a Community Day. Community Day brings the Whitney’s unique programming to the neighborhood for the day, with activities and artist collaborations for families, teens, and adults. These programs will take place at various venues throughout the neighborhood, are free, and open to the public. Stop by the tent at Washington St. and Gansevoort St. for more information!

Chalk it Up!

11am – 4pm: Families are invited to take a chalk art break at the Westbeth Artist Housing’s courtyard space. Street artist Ellis Gallagher’s sidewalk creations will inspire families to add their own chalk masterpieces.
Chalk it Up!

Youth Insights Spring Exhibition

12pm – 6 pm
Westbeth Community Room
Whitney’s Youth Insights (YI) program provides opportunities for teens to work collaboratively, discuss art critically, think creatively, and make art inspired by this exchange. This exhibition presents works of art and writing created by YI teens in collaboration with Artists-in-Residence Angel Otero and Wardell Milan.

Youth Insights Spring Exhibition