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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever. By Prudence Peiffer. HarperCollins, 2023. 432 pages. WITH ITS DUTCH NAME, uneven cobblestones, and salt-kissed air, the inlet known as the Coenties Slip is situated adjacent to the East River’s waterfront, not far from the largely empty offices of Wall Street and the urban mall of South Street Seaport, on the fringes of that commercial core today referred to as “FiDi.” From the mid-nineteenth century to the time of Wor...

How one street in Downtown New York became a centrepoint of artistic invention

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The tiny downtown passage, where artists burned pallets for warmth, was home to Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin

In the mid-20th Century, a formerly deserted waterfront neighborhood attracted a cast of young artists to Lower Manhattan.

Prudence Peiffer’s “The Slip” is a group biography of six visual artists and the work they created on the edge of Manhattan in the 1950s and ’60s.

a href= http://www.artic.edu target= _blank The Art Institute of Chicago /a is presenting Ellsworth Kelly: Portrait Drawings, on view from July 1

Each of these current and upcoming shows highlights a different aspect of the artist’s work.

Over the past 50 years, Robert Indiana has created a unique body of work drawn from pop culture images, American literature, and visual signs from his personal history. Though best known for his iconic LOVE images, Indiana has also worked in painting, sculpture, set design, graphics, printmaking, and assemblage. Born Robert Clark in Newcastle, Indiana in 1928, he changed his name in the mid-1950s when he moved to New York City as a way of honoring his home state, and of assuming a new identity. ...

William Klein won his first camera in a poker game and went on to become renowned for his skill in fashion photography, film-making, painting and more. This beautifully produced book brings his work alive