My Lists
Featured Lists
The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York
By Trachtenberg, Peter
- ISBN
- 9781574232516
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on January 31, 2025 | Arts & Humanities
The first subsidized housing colony for artists in the United States, the Westbeth Artists Housing and Center for the Arts is a rent-controlled, tenant-governed housing and commercial complex in New York City's West Village. Using seed money from the National Endowment of the Arts in the late 1960s, an inspired collective of bohemians renovated an abandoned Bell Laboratories building, creating 384 live/work and performance sp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
