The Miraculous
The Miraculous: New York
16. (Tribeca)
By Raphael RubinsteinA French sculptor who has moved to the United States immerses himself in the New York art world. Before long he acquires a network of fellow artists, a loft in what was then a desolate neighborhood below Canal Street, and a respected gallery to exhibit and, with luck, sell his work.
The Miraculous: New York
17. (The East Village, the Subway)
By Raphael RubinsteinA Brazilian artist in his early 30s relocates to New York where he furnishes his East Village apartment with mattresses that he surrounds with sheer fabric hangings. Soon it becomes a haven for experiments in art-making, love-making, drug-taking and gender-fucking.
The Miraculous: New York
18. (Chelsea)
By Raphael RubinsteinOne windy day in the mid-1990s, less than ten years after leaving the Soviet Union for life in the West, a husband-and-wife artist team grab a video camera and descend from their studio into the mostly deserted streets of Chelsea.
The Miraculous: New York
19. (The East Village, Queens)
By Raphael RubinsteinOf this artist’s early years there is very little happiness to be reported and the same is true of the years—what few there were—that followed
The Miraculous: New York
20. (Canal Street)
By Raphael RubinsteinWhen he dies of a drug overdose at 33 during a vacation in the Maldives, a German artist, lately resident in New York, leaves behind in his Düsseldorf studio a sequence of 40 aluminum panels painted in bands of red, yellow and black.
