BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Westbeth X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://westbeth.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Westbeth REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240627T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240627T193000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240621T001845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240630T164946Z UID:10000548-1719513000-1719516600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Day at Little Island DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nThursday June 27\, 2024\n6:30 – 7:30pm\nThe Glade \nPerformances by Westbeth artists and friends. \nPele Bauch is an interdisciplinary choreographer who combines dance with theater and weaves mixed media and set design into unique performances. Bauch’s choreography has been selected for presentation at many venues including the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, the Chocolate Factory\, Danspace Project\, Movement\nResearch at the Judson Church\, Joyce SoHo\, HERE’s TALR and the Best f TALR\, Dixon Place\, and BAX. \nLegendary Indie Rock trio BETTY\, Alyson Palmer (vocals\, bass\, guitar)\, Elizabeth Ziff (vocals\, guitar\, electronic programming) and her sister\, Amy Ziff (vocals and cello)\, use beguiling melodies\, compelling lyrics and signature harmonies to create energetic live shows that mix music\, performance art\, politics and comedy.\nBETTY sings of joy\, love\, longing\, sex\, food\, heartbreak\, and the universal hilarity of human existence. More than a band\, BETTY uses music to channel their passion for representation\, fairness and equality. From the beginning\, they’ve blended their voices for causes they fight for\, their talents in collaboration with other artists of every medium\, and their time in support of women and girls\, worldwide. \nJazz guitarist Peter Bernstein has been a part of the jazz scene in New York and abroad since 1989. During that time he has participated in numerous recordings and performances with musicians from all generations. As a leader\, Peter has released nine albums and a DVD. As a sideman Peter has appeared in groups led by Sonny Rollins\, Bobby Hutcherson\, George Coleman\, Lou Donaldson\, Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Fathead Newman\, Joshua Redman\, Brad Mehldau\, Diana Krall\, Lee Konitz\, Jimmy Cobb and many more. Current projects include his album\, Monk\, with Doug Weiss and Bill Stewart\, a recently released solo record\, Solo Guitar – Live at Smalls\, and the highly acclaimed organ trio with organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart. \nNew York City-based alto saxophonist\, bandleader\, composer and educator Mike DiRubbo has been the most swinging and soulful artist on his instrument for nearly 30 years.DiRubbo’s nine previous recordings as a leader from 1999 to 2018 include: From the Inside Out\, Keep Steppin’\, Human Spirit\, New York Accent: Live at the Kitano\, Repercussion\, Chronos\, Four Hands\, One Heart\, Threshold and Mike DiRubbo Quartet – “Live at Smalls.” DiRubbo has been featured in articles\, reviews\, and interviews in magazines such as Jazziz\, Hot House\, JazzTimes\, Down Beat and JazzWise. He’s also a perennial presence in The Down Beat Critics Poll in the Rising Star: Alto Saxophone category. \nReed player and composer Michael Moss has been actively involved in the downtown music scene for many years leading 4 Rivers\, Free Energy\, and Zone. Moss has performed with William Parker\, Dave Liebman\, Richie Beirach\, Greg Kogan\, Sam Rivers\, McCoy Tyner\, Elvin Jones\, Paul Bley\, Cal Massey\, Grant Green\, Burton Green\, Wilber Ware\, Mike Mahaffay\, Sabir Matin\, Ras Moshe\, Jackson Krall\, Mark Hennen\, Dan Rose and led the JCOA Jazz Composers Orchestra as well as the Free Life Communication Jazz Orchestra in his own compositions. Moss is following a life-long passion for expanding jazz improvisation to include musical traditions from around the world and has written original music to reflect these different ethnic traditions. \nTheo Bleckmann is a multi GRAMMY® nominated vocalist\, composer and ECM recording artist who has recorded over 17 albums and collaborated with artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire\, Sheila Jordan\, Kneebody\, Ben Monder\, John Hollenbeck\, Phil Kline\, David Lang\, Ulysses Owens\, Bang on a Can All-Stars\, and\, most prominently\, with Meredith Monk since 1994. Bleckmann has been interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the David Letterman show with Laurie Anderson. He has consistently appeared in top spots in DownBeat polls\, and is a recipient of the prestigious JAZZ ECHO award from the Deutsche Phono-Akademie in his native Germany. \nAs a freelance artist\, Judith Moss has conducted workshops and classes at the Rotterdanse Academie in Holland\, Mudra in Belgium\, The Place in England\, Centraalpark Studio in Berlin\, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts\, Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean and Dance Omnium in Alaska. A recipient of fellowship awards in choreography from the National Endowment of the Arts\, Arts Councils in New York\, Wisconsin\, and Pennsylvania\, The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Turks & Caicos Friends of the Arts Foundation\, Ms.Moss has created more than fifty dances for Judith Moss & Dancers\, repertory companies and college dance departments. \nHaving first come to prominence as a member of the funk-jazz collective Fat Mama\, pianist/composer Erik Deutsch has taken his talents across the globe to play with some of the finest musicians alive. Born in Washington D.C. and currently a 13+ year resident of Brooklyn\, NY\, Erik exists in many musical worlds\, performing and recording with jazz\, pop\, rock\, bluegrass and country artists like The Black Crowes\, Dixie Chicks\, Norah Jones\, Rosanne Cash\, Citizen Cope\, Charlie Hunter\, Leftover Salmon\, Shooter Jennings\, Alice Smith\, Shelby Lynne\, Theo Bleckmann\, Al Green\, Jessi Coulter\, Joe Russo\, Allison Moorer\, Phillip Phillips\, Dori Freeman\, Joey Arias\, Since 2022 Erik has been the full-time keyboardist for rock legends The Black Crowes. \nA classicist in experimental clothing\, 6 time Obie winner David Greenspan is a playwright who is also passionately involved in the theatre as an actor and director. From his early more autobiographical plays (one of which\, Principia\, took inspiration from the shifting modalities of Joyce’s Ulysses) to more recent works inspired by (and at times adapted from the work of) Hawthorne\, Stein\, Molnar\, and Thorton Wilder\, Greenspan’s theatre is a place where anything can happen. Deliciously complicated\, incredibly funny\, the work\, whether tragic\, tender\, mysterious or cruel\, betrays a profoundly empathic imagination. Both wildly conjured and deeply attentive to diverse literary and theatrical traditionsfrom vaudeville and Greek mythology to the Bible and boulevard comedyGreenspan’s plays ask big questions about history\, creation\, sexual behavior\, the complications of family and the very act of performing a play. \nMarianela Fernandez was born in Buenos Aires\, but spent most of her life in the cities of Córodoba and New York. She has a masters degree in Filósophy and a BA in Classical Studies. Passionate teacher\, she has been philosophy professor in a variety of High Schools\, Community Colleges and in the Universidad Nacional de Villa María\, in Argentina. Currently she is a teacher in the progressive school “City and Country” in New York. In 2010 she published her first poem “The Other Woman”. Her poems have been published in different anthologies and compilations. Currently she is a candidate for the MFA in Spanish creative writing at NYU. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-day-at-little-island/ LOCATION:The Glade\, LIttle Island NYC CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Westbeth-SQ-DayatLittleIsland2-e1718928824564.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240605T214056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T021718Z UID:10000546-1718989200-1718996400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:David Greenspan: Something Wicked This Way Comes DESCRIPTION:June 21\, 2024 5pm – 7pm\nAbolitionist Place\nBrooklyn\, NY\n:I’m doing a twenty-minute riff on my experience playing Witch #! in a production of Macbeth in Cleveland. Stage blood is slippery when wet and sticky when dry… and that’s just the beginning of it. This is an En Garde Arts presentation\, and the program features some other groovy performers (see below). June 21 at Abolitionist Park in Brooklyn\, 110 Willoughby Street. 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. performance. And the price is right: FREE.” URL:https://westbeth.org/event/david-greenspan-something-wicked-this-way-comes/ LOCATION:Abolitionist Place\, Brooklyn\, NY CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/david-greenspan-something-this-way.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240622T200000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240313T000236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T020622Z UID:10000529-1718910000-1719086400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:You're Never Too Old to Play presents: Above Ground (Not Exactly a Comedy) DESCRIPTION:Thursday June 20\, 2024 at 12:30pm\nFriday June 21\, 2024 at 7pm\nSaturday June 22\, 2024 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY \nYOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD TO PLAY\, an improvisational\, story-telling acting-workshop for\nseniors at Westbeth Center for the Arts\, presents ABOVE GROUND (NOT EXACTLY A COMEDY) \nDIRECTED BY Nancy Gabor and Paul Binnerts \nFEATURING: Illana Abramovitch\, Christina Koenig\, Sally Plass\, Susan Binet\, Harold\nThomas\, Lorraine Marx Singer\, Joanne Riel\, Jonathan Ned Katz\, Nora Galer. \nConducted by international theater directors and acting teachers Nancy Gabor and Paul\nBinnerts\, the group\, ages 74-98\, has been together for almost five years and has presented\nwork on different themes at WESTBETH and at LITTLE ISLAND. The new piece explores\nthrough improvisation\, music and dance\, the process of getting older with humor and love\,\nsharing childhood memories along with present issues of aging. \nAmong Nancy’s credits: collaborator with Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard; director of over 100\nplays in NYC and abroad.\nPaul\, a renowned Dutch stage director\, playwright and teacher\n(awards: Theatertreffen 2006\, Halle/Berlin for The Same Sea\, Theaterfestival 2006\, Amsterdam\nfor Mephisto) is the author of Acting in Real Time\, University of Michigan Press (2012).\nNancy and Paul are long time Westbeth residents. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/youre-never-too-old-to-play-presents-above-ground/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Above-Ground-SQUARE.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240714T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240609T002230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T021708Z UID:10000539-1718870400-1720976400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Art Take-Over at Westbeth: Three Dormant Spaces\, Three Art Exhibitions - One Event DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge. Photos on poster by David Plaake. \nJune 20 – July 14\, 2024 \n Hours:\nFriday\, Saturday\, Sunday 1pm – 6-m \n\nWALK AND TALKS:\nSaturday July 13\, 2024\nThere is a Crack in Everything at 3pm\nEx Femina at 4PM\n\nArt Take-Over is part of West Side Fest \nEx-Femina\nCo-curated by Valérie Hallier and Noah Trapolino\n*Located within Westbeth’s former child care center \nEx-Femina\, Latin for “from woman\,” encapsulates the profound transformation in the portrayal of femininity and the female gaze within contemporary art. This evolution is not merely a shift in representation but a reclamation of agency\, identity\, and perspective. \nInternational artists of various genders explore\, through mediums including sculpture\, painting\, photography\, collage\, drawing\, diorama and textile art\, facets of womanhood beyond the confines of objectification and passive observation. They depict women as subjects with complex narratives\, desires\, and emotions. Through figurative and abstract forms\, they explore themes of fertility\, nature\, animality\, intimacy\, technology\, spirituality\, consumption and trickery among others. \nEx-Femina inclusively and playfully celebrates the multifaceted nature of the female experience beyond conventional constructs. \nExhibiting artists include: Louisa Armbrust\, Aisha T Bell\, Amy Butowicz\, Martin Campos\, Tiffany Cole\, Ursula Endlicher\, Natasha Gornik\, Valérie Hallier\, Lily Hyon\, Daniel Maidman\, Jody MacDonald\, Shiri Mordechay\, Serena Nickson\, Agnès Pezeu\, Roxane Revon\, Morgan Suter\,\nElizabeth Tolson\, and Noah Trapolino. \nThere is a crack in everything\nCurated by Valérie Hallier\n*Located within Westbeth’s former Synagogue space \nThere is a crack in everything regroups contemporary artists working in installation\, sculpture\, drawing\, painting\, photography and video art. The show stages the duality of existence\, with some artwork emerging from darkness while others bask in the glow of light. The title\, inspired by Leonard Cohen’s lyrics\, serves as a metaphor for the inherent imperfections and vulnerabilities within our reality as well as within the previously dormant space the show populates and brings back to life. \nThe vast space still shows its defects as the artists imprint their own realities and dreamscapes onto its rough edges and surfaces\, but there is transformation\, instability\, there is expectation. We undulate between chaos and order\, soft and hard\, organic and artificial\, light and darkness. Nothing is fine\, but you are.\n\nExhibiting artists include: Santina Amato\, Amy Butowicz\, CHiKA\, Claudia Cortinez\, Jean Foos\,\nTom Fruin\, Tessa Grundon\, Valérie Hallier\, Leslie Kerby & Lianne Arnold\, Christina Massey\,\nJoseph Morris\, Anne Muntges\, Aston Philip\, Matthew Schlanger\, and Etty Yaniv. \nThere she lay\nCurated by Claire Felonis\n*Located within Westbeth’s former sculpture studio \nThe Westbeth building\, originally home to Bell Labs\, was partly submerged underwater during Hurricane Sandy. Drenched in history\, it serves as the ground of this group exhibition emerging from the depths of collected memory\, material investigation\, human identity and metamorphosis. \nThe amalgamation of these six artists’ practices manifests in a dystopian world\, which may have never existed at all. There she lay becomes a multidimensional dream-space suspended in time\, where false artifacts are unearthed\, strange fantasies lurk beneath the surface\, and secret languages are whispered under crashing waves. \nExhibiting artists include: Earth Ængel\, Vinny Castro\, Sasha Fishman\, Adrienne Greenblatt\, Gitte Maria Möller\, and Andreia Santana. \nCreative spaces available for lease through exclusive broker Denham Wolf\nContact Kate Hrbosky Email: Khrobsky@denhamwolf.com Tel: 646 814 8856 URL:https://westbeth.org/event/art-take-over-at-westbeth-three-dormant-spaces-three-art-exhibitions-one-event/ LOCATION:Westbeth is Part of West Side Fest CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ART_TAKE-OVER_WebSQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240614T203000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240311T003012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T190923Z UID:10000531-1718391600-1718397000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: House of Games DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-house-of-games/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/House-of-Gamess-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240613T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240613T195251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T121934Z UID:10000545-1718265600-1718298000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Valérie Hallier Multiple Media Artist New Profiles in Art Interview DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/valerie-hallier-new-profiles-in-art-interview/ CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/VALERIE-HALLIER.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T203000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240414T151240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240613T003721Z UID:10000528-1717786800-1717792200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday Music: The Mizell Sanwald Brade Trio joined by Ben Swan DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \n\nFriday June 7\, 2024 at 7PM\nWestbeth Community Room\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY \n\nWestbeth resident Andreas Brade presents\nThe Mizell/Sanwald/Brade Trio\nwith Ben Swan \nAn evening with all original compositions in the Americana-Jazz genre and beyond. \nListen to the Trio’s new digital album “The Last Hill Before Home” \nCameron Mizell\, Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer\, has been part of the diverse New York City music scene since 2004\, performing in a wide variety of genres from experimental improvisation to bluegrass musicals. Mizell has released 11 albums ranging from jazz-funk to Americana to avant-garde experimentalism. His latest effort as a band leader\, The Tree on Saffron Path\, pairs his guitar with a string trio for a set of cinematic chamber music\, lilting folk tunes\, and ambient improvisations. “Quietly and efficiently\, Mizell has put together a remarkably tuneful\, eclectic\, understatedly cinematic body of work. In a world overpopulated by guys who play a million notes where one would do\, Mizell’s economical\, purposeful style stands out even more.” (New York Music Daily). To hear his music and learn more\, visit http://cameronmizell.com \nAndreas Brade\, German born drummer\, educator and composer Andreas Brade has been a professional drummer for over 30 years. With an open mind he has found himself over the years in many different musical situations\, “the good and the bad” and many lessons learned. Andreas has performed and recorded nationally and internationally with many different Jazz\, African\, Afro Caribbean\, Gospel\, Rock\, R&B\, and Improvisational Artists at venues and festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Fest\, Kennedy Center\, Boston Symphony Hall\, NJPAC\, the Blue Note\, the Apollo Cafe and many more. These days\, Andreas likes to maintain his passion for Jazz\, and different genres of the world\, mainly African and Afro Caribbean styles\, while exploring his own voice. He is also drawn more towards electronica\, art and Improvisational music. \nAndreas has worked for over 20 years as an accompanist for modern dance for schools like the Martha Graham School\, Mark Morris Dance Center\, Paul Taylor\, Alvin Ailey\, Joffery Ballet. \nAs a composer Andreas has worked for Cornfield Dance for 15 years creating sound scores and sound scapes\, using his own samples and manipulating them with electronic effects. His works have been played/performed at venues and festivals such as 92nd Street “Y”\, Bryant Park Summer Stage\, the Battery Park Dance Festival\, the British Museum at Yale\, Baryshnikov Arts Center and the University of Georgia. \nA passionate educator\, Andreas taught at Berklee College of Music\, The Boston Community Music Center of Boston and the South Shore Conservatory. He is currently faculty at Brooklyn Music School and has his own teaching studio. \nAndreas holds a diploma from Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Modern American Music in Performance from Longy School of Bard College\, and endorses VicFirth and Zildjian Cymbals. \nThese days Andreas still enjoys staying inspired\, maintaining an open mind towards new musical adventures and solidifying his own sound\, Visit www.andreasbrade.com\nPaul Sanwald: \nPaul Sanwald is a bassist and composer living in Brooklyn\, NY. He leads a quartet that focuses on his original music\, and also works steadily as a sideman on upright bass and guitar\, and occasionally works as an arranger. \nPaul started playing music professionally as a teenager\, and has worked steadily for more than 20 years as a sideman and leader. Paul has toured internationally and recorded with Dem Brooklyn Bums\, Elizabeth and the Hot and Silver Trio\, Mizell/Sanwald /Brade Trio\, The Blue Saracens\, Flipside Phonics and Regatta 69. \nPaul has composed and arranged music for almost every kind of group imaginable: small jazz groups\, jazz big bands\, orchestras\, string quartet\, and a variety of chamber groups. \nA lifelong student\, Paul attended the New School’s venerable jazz performance program on a scholarship\, and studied orchestration\, conducting and composition at the Juilliard Evening Division with Dr. Daniel Ott and Jonathan Dawe. He studied jazz privately with many teachers\, but his first and most important teachers were Ed Paolantonio and John Wheliss.\nVisit http://paulsanwald.com \nBen Swan has traveled the globe for more than 20 years learning from musical masters to develop a signature style of improvisational violin playing. While centered within the American jazz tradition\, Ben employs a unique blend of musical concepts garnered from a variety of cultures to form his musical vocabulary.\nVisit www.swanviolin.com \nhttps://paulsanwald.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-hill-before-home URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-music-the-mizell-sanwald-brade-trio-joined-by-ben-swan/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FF_ANDREASBRADE_square.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T100000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240530T135631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240720T202629Z UID:10000533-1717578000-1718964000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Rooftop Pilates with Ellie Kusner on Westbeth Roof DESCRIPTION:CLICK TO ENLARGE \nWednesdays and Fridays\n9:15 – 10 :15am\nJune 5\, 7\, 12\, 14\, 19\, 21\, 2024 \n$10 per class\nNo experience necessary \nWestbeth Roof\n55 Bethune St\nNYC\nTake elevator to 11th floor \nContact: Elliekusnerpilates@gmail.com \nEllie Kusner has been teaching pilates to people of diverse movement experiences\, physical abilities and health backgrounds for over 20 years. She began her own pilates practice as a student of the Boston Ballet in the 1990’s. After graduating from Barnard College\, she pursued a freelance dance career and quickly found that teaching pilates was an ideal way to financially and physically support her performing life while honoring her knowledge of the human body in motion. Ellie is a faculty member of the Dance Department at The Juilliard School\, where among other things\, she teaches pilates and runs a pilates teacher training program. She holds an MSc in Dance Science which contributes a scientific\, evidenced-based perspective to her pedagogy. Her classes encourage movement specificity and robust physicality while cultivating a deep\, integrated connection to the mind\, body and spirit through the use of rich\, anatomically-informed imagery.\nwww.elliekusner.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/ellie-kusner-teaches-pilates-on-westbeth-roof/ LOCATION:Westbeth Roof CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rooftop-Pilates-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240603 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240705 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240603T152923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240613T214053Z UID:10000534-1717372800-1720137599@westbeth.org SUMMARY:SuZen's Mural: Searching for New York's Hidden Art DESCRIPTION:Anna Kodé\nNew York Times\nMay 31\, 2024\nStanding in front of the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 42nd Street\, a person can easily experience a multi-sensory overload — red double-decker tour buses\, tourists asking which way the M&M store is\, flashy neon-colored billboards and the clanking and whirring of construction sounds. \nYet sandwiched in between two buildings — both over 10 stories tall with large glass windows — a sliver of a mural offers some tranquillity\, peeking through the noise and the lights. \nThe mural\, which depicts a New York cityscape through venetian blinds\, is the work of SuZen\, a 78-year-old multimedia artist who received a $10\,000 public grant for the piece in 1984. At the time\, the building was home to the notorious Show World Center\, one of the city’s largest sex emporiums that offered adult DVDs and peep shows. The shop has been described as “the McDonald’s of Sex\,” and for decades stood as a vestige of Times Square’s gritty past. \nSuZen never stepped foot inside\, never saw a shimmy or rented a video\, but because “the image has these blinds that you’re looking through\,” a business that hosted peep shows “seemed like a good match\,” she said. “It made me chuckle.” The piece — based on a photograph SuZen took from a beauty salon in Manhattan and translated into a mural by Jeffrey Greene\, the founder of EverGreene Painting Studios — stood as a faux window on Show World\, even after owners began converting the building into offices in 2018. \nThen last fall\, SuZen noticed that a taller building went up directly adjacent to it\, rendering her mural nearly invisible. \n“I was sad and heartbroken and upset. No one even notified me that this was happening\,” SuZen said. “Do we really need more glass buildings? There are so many empty buildings that I pass.” \nIn the ever-changing urban landscape of New York City\, where real estate is in extremely high demand\, there are myriad examples of development — or the tastes of the wealthy and powerful — overtaking public art. At the 5Pointz complex in Queens over a decade ago\, 45 murals — the work of 21 graffiti artists — were whitewashed by a developer that was later fined $6.75 million for violating the Visual Artists Rights Act. In 1989\, a 120-foot-long rusting steel sculpture in Lower Manhattan by Richard Serra\, the renowned sculptor who died earlier this year\, was torn down\, following backlash from employees who worked in the federal office building the piece was in front of. Last month\, New Yorkers mourned the loss of “Sherita\,” a pink dinosaur-esque figure on a billboard on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn. \nBut SuZen’s mural wasn’t painted over or removed. Its existence today is nothing short of miraculous — glimmering through the cracks of the city’s towers\, a reminder that some ghosts of public art are around us. Just look closer. I did. \n‘Much Protest and Not Much Success’\nThe Visual Artists Rights Act\, which was passed in 1990\, grants artists “the right to prevent any destruction\, distortion\, mutilation\, or other modification” of certain publicly displayed works. SuZen got in touch with a lawyer to see if her mural would be protected under the law\, but she was told that because her mural went up in 1984\, it didn’t apply\, she said. \n“I don’t know if it’s possible\, but it would be wonderful if we could relocate the mural\,” she told me. \nRichard Haas\, an 87-year-old artist living in Manhattan\, estimates that more than half of his works have been lost to shifts in the built environment over the years. Known for architectural and trompe l’oeil murals\, Mr. Haas has created works in New York\, Washington\, Cincinnati\, Boston\, St. Louis\, Miami and more. \nRead the entire NY Times article HERE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/suzens-mural-searching-for-new-yorks-hidden-art/ LOCATION:New York Times CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screen-Shot-2024-06-03-at-11.07.28-AM-e1718313937535.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240601T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T180000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240416T202402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T020808Z UID:10000521-1717246800-1718992800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Synonymms: Rutgers University MFA Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Synonymms\nJune 1 –June 21\, 2024\nOpening Reception Saturday June 1\, 2024 6pm – 8pm \nGallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY \nSynonymms with an additional m presents artwork by twelve artists who are also Rutgers\nUniversity’s 2024 Visual Arts MFA Graduate cohort. \nArtists\nSandra SK Amoabeng\, Angela Bidak\, Maura Torres Díaz\, Alfred Dudley III\, Em Gallagher\, Jason Hirata\, Andrew Kennedy\, Kabi Raj Lama\nMaisie Luo\, Park McArthur\, Justin Nalley\, Nick Newlin\, Adi Blaustein Rejtö\, Anton Varga. \nThis capstone exhibition is an occasion to consider the artists’ disparate practices following two years of graduate study. While this study in a formal sense has ended\, it continues through frequently collaborative and/or collective activities such as teaching\, organizing\, mentoring\, and archiving facilitated by and for the show’s participating artists. Like the artists departing their graduate program\, Synonymms’s organizers\, Park McArthur and Jason Hirata\, are leaving their current roles at Rutgers as well\, and will present artwork also\, bringing the total number of exhibiting artists to fourteen. \nThe artists in this exhibition are part of a greater half-century of Rutgers University arts education that prioritizes experimentation across artistic media and disciplines. \nThe exhibition was realized with the support of Art & Design Department faculty and staff as well as that of Westbeth Gallery’s Director Valérie Hallier and Gallery Coordinators. This iteration of the Rutgers in New York exhibition series returns\, for a third time\, to Westbeth–a complex of homes\, artists’ studios\, and arts organizations living at the intersection of West\,\nBethune\, Washington\, and Bank Streets. \nPlease join the artists for an opening reception Saturday\, June 1\, 6–8 p.m. \nWestbeth Gallery courtyard 55 Bethune Street New York\, New York 10014.\nThe building’s courtyard faces Bank Street and provides step-free access to Westbeth Gallery.\nWestbeth Gallery is open Wednesday–Sunday 1–6 p.m. \nMask: If you are able to\, please wear a mask inside the gallery. \nFor remote or in person tours\, press inquiries\, access\, more information\nplease email: rutgers.ny@gmail.com\nor visit\nmasongrossgalleries.rutgers.edu/synonymms. \nFor more information about the Art & Design Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts\nRutgers University please visit: masongross.rutgers.edu/degrees-programs/art-design. \nFor more about Westbeth Gallery please visit: https://westbeth.org/about/westbeth-gallery. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/synonymms-rutgers-university-mfa-art-exhibit/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SYNONYMMS-_square-REV_RUinNY_FINAL.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240531T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240531T210000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240417T144028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T153307Z UID:10000527-1717182000-1717189200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors: An evening with Robert Bunkin\, Ze'eva Cohen and Tamara Wyndham DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nFriday May 31\, 2024 at 7pm – 9pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nEnter through courtyard\nNYC \nThis is the inaugural session of a new WARC-Sponsored program\, Get To Know Your Neighbors. \nPlease come and find out what some of your neighbors do\, why we’re here in the Westbeth Artists Community.\nOur presenters will share 20-minute presentations of some aspect of their careers as artists: \n  \nRobert Bunkin\, focusing on recent paintings made post-Covid;\nZe’eva Cohen\, dancer and choreographer will be showing a video of her work\, and\nTamara Wyndam will do a live performance piece. \nRoibrt Bunkin is a painter\, curator\, art historian and educator. “All of my work is concerned with the particular: a portrait\, a tree trunk\, and a sculpture are all part of this on-going investigation into the specifics of appearances. \nWestbeth Artist Page: Robert Bunkin \nZe’eva Cohen dance artist and choreographer. “High art can be\, and indeed should be\, entertaining. The wonder of dancer Ze’eva Cohen was that she not only accepts this principle\, but achieved a flawless balance… There is high art for you… Cohen is a genius in the field. – San Francisco Chronicle.” \nWestbeth Artist Page’ Ze’eva Cohen \nTamara Wyndham psinting\, performance. “Contact prints of the body have a tradition in sacred arts\, often functioning as evidence of the physical existence of divine or holy persons.” \nWestbeth Artist Page: Tamara Wyndham URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-an-evening-with-robert-bunkin-zeeva-cohen-and-tamara-wyndham/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-19-at-10.09.59-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240528T210000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240417T192017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T141604Z UID:10000515-1716922800-1716930000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Teri Roiger Sings a Tribute to Abbey Lincoln DESCRIPTION:Screenshot \nTuesday\, May 28 (2024)\n7:00 and 8:30 PM \nZinc Bar\n82 West 3rd Street\, New York\, NY 10012\n212-477-9462\nticket link:www.zincjazz.com \nTeri Roiger (vocals)\, James Weidman (piano)\, John Menegon (bass)\, Steve Williams (drums) \nReviews of Teri Roiger \nTeri has an intuitive laid back sense of time reminiscent of Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter but with her own uniqueness. JACK DEJOHNETTE (Legendary Jazz Drummer & 2012 NEA JazzMaster) \nStanley Crouch at DIZZY’s in NYC for Teri’s CD release of Abbey Lincoln Music: Teri’s notes\, her swing\, her sound\, and the all-encompassing soulfulness of Teri giving meaning to the music and the moment said all there is to say. She had all of the essence that anyone wants to hear anytime from a true jazz singer…She is made for those who still understand the meaning of the term the real thing. STANLEY CROUCH (Author\, Cultural Critic & 2019 NEA Jazz Master) \nA vocalist (Teri Roiger) who wraps (Abbey) Lincoln’s complex songs around her finger…Marc Myers\, JAZZWAX.COM\, award-winning blog \nTeri Roiger has a voice like the finest bittersweet chocolate full of rich\, dark\, contradicting flavors that miraculously blend to create one of the most original vocal instruments in decades. Vic Garbarini\, Playboy Magazine \nTeri Roiger…Powerfully moving…sagacious warmth…impressively deep…Christopher Loudon\, JAZZTIMES \nRoiger’s warm contralto\, like aged\, fine whiskey\, is smooth but heady… ALL ABOUT JAZZ \nMany thanks to our friends\, family\, and fans who support LIVE MUSIC! We want you to know we appreciate each and every one of you and love sharing the music with you! Please continue to be safe and careful as you venture back out into the world! Can’t wait to see you! \nCheck out Amazon Music for Teri Roiger’s cd’s URL:https://westbeth.org/event/teri-roiger-sings-a-tribute-to-abbey-lincoln/ LOCATION:Zinc Bar\, NYC CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Terir-Roiger-POSTER-ZINC.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240716 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240528T165510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240701T210546Z UID:10000530-1716854400-1721087999@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Open Call: Westbeth Gallery DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nCALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS 2025 \nDeadline July 15\, 2024 \nThe Westbeth Gallery is a nonprofit fine arts gallery located within Westbeth Artist Housing in\nthe West Village in Manhattan. The gallery is operated by the Westbeth Artists Residents\nCouncil which is a volunteer organization elected by the residents of Westbeth. \nThe gallery is seeking diverse proposals from institutions\, curators or individual artists for\nexhibitions in 2025. Each exhibition is approximately three weeks in length and must use all\nfour rooms of our 2900 square foot gallery. \nProposed exhibitions should be composed of artwork that is the product of professional artists and executed in the last five years. are given latitude in the content and arrangement of their work. Exhibitors are expected to work independently to curate\, promote and install their exhibition professionally. \nProposal Requirements\nAll proposals are due by July 15th\, 2024. Proposals submitted after July 15th will be ineligible\nfor review. We only accept digital proposals. \nPlease Note – Non-refundable exhibition fee:\nIf your proposal has been accepted\, you will be notified and receive a contract to sign along with a request for a non-refundable exhibition fee to go toward the maintenance of the gallery.\nExhibition Fees (non-refundable) are split into three categories:\n1) If the show is curated from within Westbeth: $400 fee\n2) If the show is curated by an individual or group from outside Westbeth: $800 fee\n3) If the show is curated by an Institution (i.e. The Whitney): amount may vary. \nEmail your proposal to: submissionswg@gmail.com \nDOWNLOAD SUBMISSION FORMS WG Call form Proposals 2025 \nSUBMIT:\n• 200 word statement of your proposed exhibition including title see attached form below.\n• A Resume in pdf form of the curator and/or featured artist(s).\nVisual Support:\n• 6 digital images from an individual artist or a selection of 2 images per artist from a group or\ninstitution.\nPlease format your images in the following:\nFile name: labeled with your last name and order number\nEXAMPLE: Smith01.jpg\, Smith02.jpg\, Smith03.jpg\nDimensions: the largest size should be no more than 2000p pixels\, no wider than 10″.\nResolution: 72dpi (do not send Tiff files)\nImage List: provide: title of piece\, materials and dimensions\, date the work was produced \nThe Review Committee will not look at websites of any kind.\nGallery Information\nGuidelines for the gallery and floor plans can be found at www.westbeth.org under About/Westbeth Gallery.\nSelection Process\nAll proposals will be reviewed by members of the Visual Arts Selection Sub-Committee.\nProposals that are accepted will be notified by September 2024.\nEXHIBITION PROPOSAL COVER SHEET\nName of Featured Artist(s) and/or Institution: ___________________________________\nFrom Westbeth (circle one): Yes – No\nContact Name: ____________________________________________________________\nContact Email Address: _____________________________________________________\nContact Phone Number: ____________________________________________________\nProposed Title: ___________________________________________________________\nMedium(s) (sculpture\, mixed media\, painting\, video\, etc): ___________________________\nExpected total number of works: __________\nSize of works (range): ________________\nSpecial Requirements for the Exhibition: __________________________________\nNumber of Participating Artists: ___________\nAre your artists from New York City? Tri-State Area? International? ___________\nDo you plan on hosting artist talks or other special events during your exhibit? Please describe:\n___________________________________________________________________________ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-gallery-open-call-2025/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:non-event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/flyerOpenCall_2025_REVjuly15SQ-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240525T203000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240418T142018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T161245Z UID:10000526-1716663600-1716669000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: GUYS AND DOLLS DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-guys-and-dolls/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Guys-Dolls-SQUARE-FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T190000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240515T215604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T235617Z UID:10000523-1716397200-1716404400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Community Open House at Whitney Independent Study Program DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 22\, 2024 5pm – 7pm\n745 Washigtom St\nNYC \nThis event is free. Please register HERE\nThe Whitney Museum of American Art and Village Preservation are pleased to invite you to join us for a community open house of the Whitney’s Independent Study Program (ISP) at the Roy Lichtenstein Studio\, featuring a viewing of the program’s curatorial exhibition Not Everything Is Given \nPlease also join us for a concurrent viewing of the 2023–24 ISP Studio Exhibition At Odds With at Westbeth Gallery located across the street. \nMore info about “Not Everything is Given” and “At Odds With” HERE \nIn 2023 the Whitney Museum of American Art completed a full renovation of artist Roy Lichtenstein’s former home and studio at 741/745 Washington Street in Greenwich Village\, now the permanent space for the ISP. Several months ago the participants of the 2023–24 ISP program\, which trains the next generation of leading artists\, curators\, and scholars\, moved to this new space\, continuing the building’s legacy as a site for cultural production in the West Village. Now we are delighted to invite you to come inside and to the Westbeth Gallery to view the program participants’ culminating exhibitions. \nThe ISP has a step-free entrance\, is wheelchair accessible\, and has a wheelchair-accessible bathroom. The Westbeth Gallery is located within a courtyard\, which has two step-free accessible entrances and a wheelchair-accessible bathroom. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/community-open-house-at-whitney-independent-study-program/ LOCATION:Whitney ISP on Washington St and Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-15-at-5.40.11-PM-e1715810309641.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T120000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240515T211530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240521T235646Z UID:10000522-1716120000-1716120000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:James Gortner and Jean Wolff: Open Studios DESCRIPTION:James Gortner \nIn James Gortner’s paintings\, his personal conflicts\, moods\, and dreams combine with other people’s stories and magical myths of the past and present to create new myths. Gortner‘s paintings lean into sculpture\, sometimes reference photography\, and involve circumstances and processes akin to performance. He usually incorporates into his paintings reclaimed wood and sustainable materials\, as well as paints on layers of reclaimed artist’s paintings\, adding physical texture and tension to enhance the narrative\, or abstract the storytelling at play. \nWebsite:https://jamesgortner.com/home.html \nJean Wolff Jean Wolff The ongoing theme in my art making practice involves the creation of subtle order through the use of strong patterns\, grids and geometries. Working with a wide range of media on canvas\, paper and wood\, I create a unique visual language through an ongoing process of exploration and experimentation. The work is built on an evolving set of interrelations\, rather than just a system of themes and variations. The latest series of works is a return to earlier compositions and themes\, rather than moving away from the immediately preceding body of work and is an integration of the processes acquired during those investigations. \nWebsite:https://www.jeanwolff.comhttps://www.jeanwolff.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/james-gortner-and-jean-wolff-open-studios/ LOCATION:Mana Contemporary\, Jersey City CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-15-at-4.48.48-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240520T140000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20231202T154612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240519T141955Z UID:10000511-1716030000-1716213600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WESTBETH FLEA MARKET Bargains Galore DESCRIPTION:Clicke to enlarge \nBag Sale Saturday May 18\, 2024 11am 2pm \nFriday May 10\, 2024 11m – 5pm\nSaturday May 11\,2024 11am – 5pm\nSunday May 12\, 2024 11am – 5pm \nThe Westbeth Flea Market Returns with Bargains Galore and Affordable Art. This unique sale features housewares\, furniture\, mens and women’s clothes\, shoes\, sports\, electronics\, kids toys\, books\, plus our newest department Odds and Ends.\nThe Affordable Art Department highlights original work by Westbeth artists and other artist includes fine art prints\, sculpture\, paintings on canvas\, drawing\, photographss \, sketchbooks and more \n\nClick on image for the Westbeth Love 2023 Sale photos. Don’t miss the 2nd page of photos.\nPhotos by David Plaake and Christina Maile\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n 1\n2\n► URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-flea-market-bargains-galore/ LOCATION:Westbeth Basement CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BaG-SQ-Sale-1-1-scaled-e1715805745828.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240615T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240212T005317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240613T003803Z UID:10000524-1715760000-1718470800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Thom Brucie: Chaikin Award Winner for Poetry - Poems now online. DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/thom-bruce-chaikin-award-winner-for-poetry-poems-now-online/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Chaikin-award-SQ-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240524T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240419T184230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T161606Z UID:10000516-1715241600-1716570000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WHITNEY MUSEUM INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM PRESENTS 2024 ANNUAL EXHIBITIONS AND SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION:Whitney ISP S Emsaki crude education (still) 1908-ongoing. Courtesy of the artist\, scaled. \nISP 23/24 Curatorial exhibition: Not Everything is Given \nISP\n745 Washington St\nNYC \nand right across the street \nISP 23/24 Studio exhibition: At Odds With (curated by Juana Berrio)\nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNYC \nArtist Reception and Opening for both shows: May 9\, 2024 6pm – 8pm \nShow dates run concurrently: May 9 – May 24\, 2024\nHours: Wednesday – Sunday 1pm – 6pm\nClosed Monday and Tuesday \nSymposium: Sunday May 19\, 2024 \nThe Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) marks the culmination of the 2023–24 academic year with a symposium at the Whitney on Sunday\, May 19\, and two exhibitions at the ISP and Westbeth Gallery\, May 9–24. These presentations showcase the work of the 2023–24 ISP cohort across three areas of concentration: Critical Studies Program\, Curatorial Program\, and Studio Program. The presentation at the ISP marks the first exhibition in the ISP’s new permanent home at the renovated former studio and home of artist Roy Lichtenstein. \nSymposium: Sunday May 19\, 2024\nThe 2023–24 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellows will present their current research at the annual ISP Critical Studies Symposium on Sunday\, May 19 from 2–7 pm in the Museum’s Susan and John Hess Family Theater. The fellows\, Alex Fialho\, Sarah Richter\, Blake Oetting\, Geelia Ronkina\, Anamaría Garzón Mantilla\, and Olivia McCall\, will share short papers that address critical topics in contemporary culture. The fellows will be joined in conversation by poet and artist Pamela Sneed\, Columbia University; Claire Bishop\, professor of art history at CUNY Graduate Center; and Rachel Price\, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. The symposium will be live streamed with live captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided. The event is free and registration is recommended. \nThe Curatorial Studies Program exhibition\, Not Everything Is Given\, examines the aspirations of language and disturbs the expectations from artworks and artists to “demonstrate\,” “elucidate\,” or “bear witness to” the fraught conditions of our world.The exhibition is curated by the 2023–24 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows: Ella den Elzen\, Alper Turan\, Gervais Marsh\, and Carlota Ortiz Monasterio. The exhibition will be on view May 9–24 at the ISP\, located at 745 Washington St\, New York\, NY 10014. An opening reception for Not Everything Is Given will be held at the ISP on Thursday\, May 9 from 6–8 pm. \nThe Studio Program exhibition\, At Odds With\, presents recent work by the 2023–24 Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellows: S Emsaki\, Kimi Hanauer\, sadé powell\, Albert Samreth\, Shobun Baile\, Mae Howard\, Alison Nguyen\, Elliot Reed\, Omolola Ajao\, José De Sancristóbal\, Daniel Ramos\, tarah douglas\, Kearra Amaya Gopee\, Emily Velez Nelms\, and Jennifer Teresa Villanueva\, and Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow Ella den Elzen. Curated by Juana Berrío\, the exhibition will be on view May 9–24 at Westbeth Gallery\, a nonprofit fine arts gallery located across the street from the ISP at 55 Bethune St\, New York\, NY 10014. An opening reception for At Odds With will be held at Westbeth Gallery on Thursday\, May 9 from 6–8 pm. \nThe Independent Study Program symposium\, exhibitions\, and opening events are all free and open to the public. The hours for the ISP Curatorial Studies Program and Studio Program exhibitions are Wednesday–Sunday\, 1–6 pm; closed Monday and Tuesday. For full details and additional information on the ISP\, please visit whitney.org/isp. \nPROGRAM SUPPORT\nGenerous support for the Independent Study Program is provided by Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo\, the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation\, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation\, and Diane and Robert Moss. \nSignificant support is provided by The Capital Group Charitable Foundation\, Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa\, Gloria H. Spivak\, and the Whitney Contemporaries through their annual Art Party benefit. \nABOUT THE ISP\nThe Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art consists of three interrelated areas of study: the Studio Program\, Curatorial Program\, and Critical Studies Program. The ISP provides a setting where students pursuing art practice\, curatorial work\, art historical scholarship\, and critical writing engage in ongoing discussions and debates that examine the historical\, social\, and intellectual conditions of artistic production. The program encourages the theoretical and critical study of the practices\, institutions\, and discourses that constitute the field of culture. Each academic year fifteen students are selected to participate in the Studio Program\, four in the Curatorial Program\, and six in the Critical Studies Program. Curatorial and critical studies students are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in recognition of the substantial support provided to the program by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation. The program begins in early September and concludes at the end of May. Many participants are enrolled at universities and art schools and may receive academic credit for their participation\, while others have recently completed their formal studies. \nABOUT THE WHITNEY\nThe Whitney Museum of American Art\, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942)\, houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney\, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art\, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art\, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect\, preserve\, interpret\, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists\, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.\nWhitney Museum Land Acknowledgment \nThe Whitney is located in Lenapehoking\, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name Manhattan comes from their word Mannahatta\, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s current site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan (“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original inhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today. \nAs a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people\, the Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and program. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the perspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To read more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgement\, visit the Museum’s website. \nImage credit:\nS Emsaki\, crude education (still)\, 1908–ongoing\, courtesy of the artist \nPRESS CONTACT \nFor press materials and image requests\, please visit whitney.org/press or contact: \nEmma LeHocky\, Senior Publicist\nWhitney Museum of American Art\n(212) 671-1844\nEmma_LeHocky@whitney.org URL:https://westbeth.org/event/whitney-isp-program-joint-exhibit-with-westbeth-gallery/ LOCATION:ISP 745 Washington St NYC and Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/24_ISP_Studio-Exhibition-Social_1080x1080_EW.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T203000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240102T135954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T140148Z UID:10000509-1715108400-1715113800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Gayle Kirschenbaum Mildred Kirschenbaum Mildred's Mindset Book Event DESCRIPTION:C;ick to enlarge \nTuesday May 7\, 2024 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Rm\n55 Bethune St\nNY NY \nMildred Kirschenbaum\, from Brooklyn\, New York\, has captured hearts as a social media influencer with her viral life advice\, drawing from her rich life experiences\, including starting a family post-World War II and founding a travel agency. Her book\, Mildred’s Mindset: Wisdom from a Woman Centenarian\, encapsulates her secrets to longevity and a joy-filled life. \nGayle Kirschenbaum is an Emmy-winning filmmaker\, photographer\, writer\, and forgiveness coach. Her film Look at Us Now\, Mother! premiered on Netflix and has been credited with transforming lives. Also see her TEDx talk “No More Drama with Mama.” To learn more about Gayle’s work visit GayleKirschenbaum.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/gayle-kirschenbaum-mildred-kirschenbaum-mildreds-mindset-book-event/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Gayle-poster-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240505T203000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240103T010745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T140202Z UID:10000507-1714935600-1714941000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Marya Zimmet: A Sorta Kinda CD Release Show DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nSunday May 5\, 2024 at 7PM\nWestbeth Community Room\n55 Bethune St\nb/s Washington and West Sts\nNY \nMarya Zimmet\nGrowing up with artist/hippie/lefty parents and an older sister in Chelsea and Greenwich Village\, the house was filled with the sounds of Billie Holiday\, Lead Belly\, Judy Garland\, and the singer-songwriters and bands of the 60s and early 70s. Dad bought me a guitar at age 11 and I studied finger-style guitar. I moved to San Francisco with mom at age 14\, and in my late teen years took my first singing lessons. At twenty-one I moved back to NYC\, studying jazz at City College and discovering The Great American Songbook. Then followed a brief (33-year) detour to pursue a doctoral degree and career as a school psychologist\, during which time I engaged in varied musical endeavors: a 5-woman folk group\, a couple of jazz trios\, and the creation and performance of several cabaret shows. \nI launched my first CD project just before the pandemic hit\, and completed it in spring 2021. A mere 3 years later\, I’m puttin’ on a show! I’ll be doing several songs from the CD and a bouquet of additional jazz\, folk and pop standards\, each given a fresh spin by the wonderful trio with whom I’ll be performing. \nNicki Adams\, Piano and Musical Direction\nEddy Khaimovich\, Bass\nEvan Hyde\, Drums\nDirected by Barry Kleinbort URL:https://westbeth.org/event/marya-zimmet-sings-a-sorta-kinda-cd-release-show/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marya-Zimmet-square-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T203000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20231203T161721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240504T155144Z UID:10000513-1714762800-1714768200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY presents ALY 'S BDAY CABARET featuring BETTY and Friends DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nJoin the celebration of bass player and vocalist Aly Palmer with Elizabeth Ziff and Amy Ziff and their rocking harmony trio BETTY. Joining the night are sensational singers and Aly Pals Miss Maggie Moore with Tony Salvatore\, Kristi Ambrosetti\, Mishti\, Eve Zanni\, The Line Up’s Susie Moser and more! \nIt’s a cabaret for all ages\, all musical styles from jazz pop rock and blues\, and anyone who loves a smorgasbord of tasty talent. Stick around afterward\, for when DJ EZ plays old school dance music to shake off anybody’s birthday blues! \nWebsite: BETTY URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-presents-aly-s-bday-cabaret-featuring-betty-and-friends/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ALYFirst-Friday-BDay-Rev_Square2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T200000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240103T210328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260111T174454Z UID:10000502-1714676400-1714680000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:MIRIAM CHAIKIN WRITING AWARD WINNERS EVENING DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nThursday May 2\, 2024. (time to be determined)\nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank St\nEnter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWorks in Poetry will be read by Terence Burk\, Beth Griffith and Joel Rooks \nWinner in Prose:\nSheena Daree Romero is an essayist\, humorist\, and doodler based in New York City. Her\nstories and essays have been published in Autostraddle\, Taco Bell Quarterly\, Split Lip Magazine\,\nand elsewhere—and featured on the Longreads Best of 2022 list. She’s working on an essay\ncollection that bridges memoir and cultural criticism to meditate on blackness in disparate\nlocations. \n \nWinner in Poetry:\nThom Brucie’s novel Children of Slate won the 2023 bronze medal Illumination Award for excellence in Catholic literature\, and his novel Obsidian Mirth won the American Writing Award\nin fiction (2022). His poetry chapbook Moments Around the Campfire with a Vietnam Vet was\nnamed the best chapbook of 2010; his chapbook Apprentice Lessons contains a grouping of\npoems dedicated to the dignity of labor. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize\, and\nhis short stories and poems have appeared in a variety of journals\, including the San Joaquin\nReview\, Cappers\, the Southwestern Review\, Pacific Review\, Wilderness House Literary Review\,\nNorth Atlantic Review\, and many others.\nDr. Brucie is retired Professor of English and Professional Writing at South Georgia State\nCollege. You can find out more about Thom Brucie at: www.ThomBrucie.com \nMiriam Chaikin Foundation Writing Awards\nThese awards were established in memory of Miriam Chaikin\, a longtime Westbeth resident\, former Westbeth Artists Literary Chair\, and a prolific writer. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/miriam-chaikin-writing-award-winners-evening/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Miriam-Chaikin-Award-2024-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T210000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20231203T172305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240504T155205Z UID:10000514-1714586400-1714597200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Fixers Salon featured in The Village Sun article DESCRIPTION:Click to enlargePhoto: Carole Braden \nNEXT EVENT\nWed May 1\, 2024 at 6pm – 9pm \nWestbeth Inner Courtyard\nOld Pre-school Room\n55 Bethune St\nNY NY 10014 \nMore Info:westbethconservation@gmail.com \nVillage Sun Article\nBy Carole Braden \n“Sandra Kingsbury walked into the Fixers Night with a jumble of blown glass\, milk glass and metal pieces. She left with a beautiful\, working table lamp. \n“We were ready to throw it away\,” said Kingsbury\, a resident at Westbeth Artists Housing\, at 55 Bethune St. She had no idea what the tiered vintage piece should look like\, but that didn’t slow down retired science teacher and repair guru Joe Holdner. He intuitively stacked components around a new center wire and turned the switch\, sparking a literal lightbulb moment. \nPosters pinned to bulletin boards around the Westbeth campus said\, “Something broken? Don’t trash it. Repair it.” They invited residents to a pop-up tinkering session with the Fixers Collective\, which Holdner helped found and has been part of for 14 years. The group\, which has met monthly at Hack Manhattan on 37th Street for nearly a decade\, is setting up a new neighborhood residency here at the West Village’s “home of the arts.” \nThe next repair salon at Westbeth will occur on Wed.\, May 1\, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. \nOn that night in early March\, Holdner was joined by Fixers Collective artists Vincent Lai and John Murphy\, who unpacked implements and took places at power strip-equipped folding tables. Scheduled guests arrived with disabled objects and onlookers peeked into the brightly lit room wondering what was happening. \n“It smells like fire\,” said Charlotte Leist\, a seventh-grader who wielded a soldering iron under Murphy’s supervision. She was installing new capacitators in her own mini makeup fridge\, which had stopped chilling without warning. Empowered by making her “Swiftie” sticker-emblazoned plastic appliance cool again\, she also gained a lesson: We can outsmart planned obsolescence.\nThe Fixers Night pilot and other neighborhood repair events have the power to reignite a long-burning zeitgeist\, growing awareness about climate change and consumerism’s role in it while providing welcome services. The Westbeth Artists Residents Council (WARC) and its Conservation Committee (which\, full disclosure\, this reporter leads) sponsored the three-hour event. Visitors brought a rollator — a walker on wheels — with bad brakes\, a non-spinning CD player and five lamps\, in addition to Kingsbury’s\, plus more. Volunteers weighed and tallied 156 pounds of junk that went back to work instead of to the landfill. \nDebra Rapoport\, a found-metal jewelry and repurposed-textile artist\, came with a nonworking 1960s Luxo gooseneck lamp. Holdner fixed the chrome light’s derelict switch by simply tightening a screw. Rapoport\, a proud trash picker\, was overjoyed. \n“The concept of conservation and repairing and reusing\,” she said\, “is what I’m all about.” \nRead the complete Sun Article here which includes photos. Village Sun URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-fixers-salon/ LOCATION:Westbeth Inner Courtyard old PreSchool Space CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Westbeth-Fixers-3-e1713161346992.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240425T203000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240104T205422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T142803Z UID:10000503-1714073400-1714077000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:ELDERBRO: Songs of Struggle A community musical gathering featuring Westbeth and Chelsea musicians DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/elderbro-songs-of-struggle-a-community-musical-gathering-featuring-westbeth-and-chelsea-musicians/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-27-at-3.22.14-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240429 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240315T191449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240429T142811Z UID:10000496-1714003200-1714348799@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WESTFEST Dance Festival 2024The Annual Presentation of Cutting-Edge Dance DESCRIPTION:Click for more info \nClick for more info \nClick for more information URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westfest-dance-festival-2024/ LOCATION:Westbeth Top Floor and All Over Westbeth CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WESTFEST-2024_web-square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T200000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20231211T175512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T011431Z UID:10000512-1713639600-1713643200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night. Johnny Guitar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-johnny-guitar/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Johnny-Guitar-REV-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240101T141348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240419T175812Z UID:10000510-1713348000-1713373200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Conservation Coffee Klatsch DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nWednesday April 17\, 2024 at 10am \nWestbeth Community Rm\n55 Bethune St\nNew York NY \nCarole Braden the chair of Westbeth Artists Residents Council Conservation Committee invites the neighborhood to discuss conservation measures the neighborhood can promote . URL:https://westbeth.org/event/conservation-coffee-klatsch/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Coffee-Klatsch-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240102T035831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240522T003540Z UID:10000506-1713099600-1716138000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:PENNY JONES PUPPETS & CO: TOBY'S MAGIC FOREST DESCRIPTION:CLICK TO ENLARGE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/penny-jones-puppets-3/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-01-at-10.55.49-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260424T191815 CREATED:20240411T012926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T152325Z UID:10000508-1712736000-1715360400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Lorraine O Grady "The Audacity of Lorraine O'Grady" DESCRIPTION:Photo: Collier Schorr Click to enlarge \nWhat if Lorraine O’Grady—acclaimed artist\, glorious wit\, and the very best kind of miscreant renegade—turned out to be a knight in shining armor? It’s a question I find myself contemplating as I sit across from her in the café at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, just a few blocks from her studio in Manhattan’s West Village. \nFor more than four decades\, O’Grady has exercised a kind of valiance as she has sought to create a place for herself within the racism\, sexism\, and inhospitality of the art world. Beginning in the late 1970s and early ’80s\, her conceptual and performance art took aim at the constellation of forces that conspired to marginalize artists of color in mainstream institutions and galleries—and women of color especially. Instead\, O’Grady found community with the group of artists that surrounded Linda Goode Bryant’s scrappy\, idealistic Just Above Midtown (JAM) gallery and contemporaries like David Hammons and Senga Nengudi\, who chafed against the way the art establishment rejected the notion of a Black avant-garde. \n– Excerpt from Harbper’s Bazaar by Soraya Nadia McDonald\nLink to full article Lorraine O’Grady URL:https://westbeth.org/event/lorraine-o-grady-the-audacity-of-lorraine-ogrady/ LOCATION:Harpers Bazaar CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lorraine-O-Grady-in-Haprers-Bazaar.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR