The Miraculous
The Miraculous: New York
6. [Downtown, West 57th Street]
By Raphael RubinsteinDuring the summer of 1953 while New York City is suffering through a record-breaking heat wave, a 55-year-old artist known for her superb drawing skills (honed during years working alongside a famed European modernist) tosses aside pencil and pen for a new technique: making ink rubbings of the city under her feet.
The Miraculous: New York
7. [Lower Broadway]
By Raphael RubinsteinIt’s the mid-1970s. A young abstract painter who has moved to New York from Southern California finds a studio near City Hall on Lower Broadway.
The Miraculous: New York
8. [Chelsea]
By Raphael RubinsteinIn the Chelsea townhouse where she has been living and working since the late 1950s an artist now in her 90s returns again and again to the subject that has obsessed her for decades
The Miraculous: New York
9. [Lower East Side]
By Raphael RubinsteinIt’s the evening of October 22, 1962 and President Kennedy has just announced in a televised address “that it shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.”
The Miraculous: New York
10. [Brooklyn Heights]
By Raphael RubinsteinThe year that Marilyn Monroe marries Joe DiMaggio, that Elvis Presley releases “That’s All Right,” that the first mass polio vaccinations begin, that Frank O’Hara publishes his prose poem “Meditations in an Emergency”
