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...than go without an audience. He has entertained in hotel lobbies, restaurants, railroad stations, buses and cabs. (To a convulsed cab driver on whom he worked during a recent ride, Milton cracked: "You think this is funny? You should've caught me last Tuesday in a cab on 57th Street...
...ever since. Tiffany's began unobtrusively to court foot-slogging shoppers as well as the carriage trade; this week its chaste ad in the New York Times offered gold brooches for $34 as well as a diamond pin at $6,650. In its store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street are private buying rooms, where rich clients can inspect $200,000 necklaces at their leisure. But a housewife can walk in off the avenue and buy a $3 teaspoon or a 50? ashtray...
...news on Manhattan's art-marketing 57th Street last week was a single picture. It had taken three years of planning and three more years of painting. Peter Blume's 6-ft.-wide canvas, which he called The Rock, was a complex allegory of building and decay, done with photographic, Technicolored precision...
...schools. Knowing the assembly-line dreariness of most U.S. art education (which grinds out armies of would-be painters each year), Hayes himself had been surprised by the result-a show that was technically expert, sparkling with real talent and livelier than most on Manhattan's art-merchandising 57th Street...
Painter Morris Graves is a special pet of Manhattan's artiest art lovers, but he is careful to keep 3,000 miles between himself and their cocktail parties. His strange paintings, completely uninfluenced by the fads of 57th Street, look as if they might have been done by a lama in the peaks of Tibet. Graves has done little to dispel that illusion. When his temperas were first shown and acclaimed at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), critics and writers excitedly wired Seattle for information about him. The tall, cadaverous recluse sent them...