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.
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.
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.
Local events in Greenwich Village in April 2026
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.
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.
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.
I hope you’re not too disappointed when you learn that this article is about retirement, and not about real or imagined romantic exploits, despite the title.
On Feb.11, the Merchant’s House Museum issued a press release announcing that a previously unknown, fully intact Underground Railroad stop has been discovered at the landmark 1832 museum.
A Village View reader asked us to report on 92 Eighth Avenue just north of 14th Street, which has been a trash-strewn empty lot since 2015.
