East and West Villagers are routinely smitten by the latest must-see venues: beautiful people, places and things that are beyond mere nouns. Where’s the experience of cutting-edge end retail design? The upscale dives, the delightful deliriums, the decorum-less dioramas?
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Not since Keith Haring’s provocative stick-figure art first adorned West 4th Street subway walls has the NYC underground looked so interesting. Not to mention lovely! And it’s because of Mae Curry’s flowers.
Read MoreIf you are going through a difficult time, you, like many may find the part of what is called The Serenity Prayer helpful: Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can: and the Wisdom to know the difference.
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For the second year, Brian Pape of The Village View will exhibit his paintings as part of the Art by Architects NYC exhibit and fund-raiser, after a successful showing last year.
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Mable Dwight was one of the most important American women printmakers. She was fascinated with human reality. Dwight was an active member of the Whitney Studio Club, a precursor to the Whitney Museum, participating in their life drawing class that permitted women artists.
Read MoreI stopped teaching in 2024. I began in 1971 when I graduated from college. My first job was at a public school on New York’s Lower Eastside as an “Above Quota Teacher” (in-house substitute). I covered for absent teachers before outside subs were called. Many of the students acted out. Getting outside subs at our school was difficult. Few came back a second time.
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There’s something very interesting going on with EPiC, the new Elvis Presley Concert/Documentary. The movie as a concert film is terrific. Director Baz Luhrmann has cut and mixed this series of rehearsals and concerts, mostly in Vegas, to make you feel you are at a concert.
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Local events in Greenwich Village in April 2026
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After more than four decades in thrash metal, Tony Portaro, founding guitarist, singer and composer of Whiplash, remains as passionate and restless as ever. From iconic guitars to painting, online teaching, and an upcoming album, Portaro shared a candid look at his life, creative process, and the future of the band.
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Remarkably, WMM will celebrate its 55th anniversary next year. Today, it stands as one of the nation’s premier documentary organizations, serving as a powerful force that enables women to produce socially conscious films and distribute them to a global audience.
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Despite the Graham studio’s imminent closing at Westbeth, Beth Soll & Company brilliantly performed in its space on March 22, leaving a strong aura of explosive creative movement as formidable ghosts for its future inhabitants.
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In February 2025, while sitting in Westbeth Artist Housing, a month after the re-inauguration of Trump’s regime with endless executive orders, threats, unhinged rants and the reality of the demise of our democracy, I was both in a rage and a panic. Who is doing something about this?
Read MoreI was born in 1947, among the first wave of baby boomers. Growing up in the 50s, I had my whole life in front of me and everything looked rosy. The middle class was growing and there seemed to be no limit to what was possible.
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Long before she was a legal scholar at NYU or a voice for women’s rights, Emily Roebling was busy teaching herself how to be an engineer in a world that didn’t even want her at the drawing table.
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Ever paused on a Village block and wondered, “What lies behind those doors?” In neighborhoods like ours, where historic homes line every street, it is only natural to imagine the spaces just beyond view, with interiors shaped by history, ingenuity, and imagination.
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