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I noticed this water tank on my many walks between home and office. It's a commissioned portrait of Rosario Dawson by Shepard Fairey. It's called Power and Equality.
Pianos in the Lower East Side is a 2-story bar/live music venue, which similar to what Arlene's Grocery did, kept the "Pianos" name and signage from the storefront that previously occupied the space (which we love). Pianos has two stages, an upstairs stage and one in a back room.
NYC circa 1974
Robert C. Scull; Businessman Who Aided Young Artists
January 04, 1986|From Times Wire Services
NEW YORK — Robert C. Scull, who used the wealth of his taxi fleet to collect contemporary art and encourage young artists, has died at his home in Warren, Conn., it was learned Friday.
He was 70 when he died Wednesday. He had been suffering from diabetes.
Scull and his first wife, Ethel, were at the center of feverish and controversial art collecting in Manhattan in the 1960s. He was prominent in fashion and gossip columns, where he sometimes was referred to as "the pop of Pop Art" and "the Medici of the Minimalists."
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I love New York, but winters here are bland, brutal, and colorless. This winter was particularly miserable; the bitter winds, perpetual snow, and general absence of light crushed any hope I had of ever again seeing Spring, unbundled humanity, or--most importantly--color. The day I shot this photo was unusually warm, though, and the snowdrifts began to melt, exposing all sorts of garish clutter. It was the the first day in weeks that I had seen anybody out in the street, and as I approached the end of Orchard Street I saw this girl, a worker from a nearby store, with her bright pink suede boots resting just at the edge of a retreating mound of snow. It was like a celebration, and it was this day, maybe just this shot, that I kept remembering as winter dragged on into April and I finally got all my color back.