Pape Joins Art by Architects Exhibit
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.
Category: Arts
Mable Dwight’s Lithography at the Whitney Museum: Magic and Reality
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.
Retiring From Teaching
I 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.
Movie Review – EPiC (Elvis Presley in Concert)
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.
Greenwich Village Local Events April 2026
Local events in Greenwich Village in April 2026
Whiplash Guitarist Tony Portaro
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.
Women Make Movies: A Legacy of Empowerment
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.
A Walk, a Talk, Second Thoughts: Beth Soll & Co.
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.
Village Preservation’s Spring House Tour: A Glimpse Beyond the Doors
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.
Inside Kristina Wong’s Food Bank Influencer
Kristina Wong’s one-woman show Food Bank Influencer unfolds as a deliberately chaotic, funny, and ultimately incisive narrative about hunger, dignity, and the limits of charity in America.
- The Story of Thackery Binx
My boyfriend, being a big fan of the 1993 Hocus Pocus film, named her Thackery Binx. Well…she did bear the name Suba for the first couple weeks as she was first found in a Subaru, but why keep the trauma all her life?