Where downtown poets go to church to greet the New Year
On the morning of New Years Day, along the sleepy streets of the East Village in Manhattan, scarf-bundled crowds trickled into St. Marks C
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On the morning of New Years Day, along the sleepy streets of the East Village in Manhattan, scarf-bundled crowds trickled into St. Marks C
Martha Diamond, a painters painter who captured the endlessly changing face of New Yorks buildings, streets and light-filled vistas with d
Painter Martha Diamond, an artist’s artist who late in life gained fame for her blurry, glowing New York City skylines, died in New York on December 30, 2023, at the age of seventy-nine, following a long illness.
On the first day of the year, over a thousand devotees passed through the old church where the Poetry Project has held its annual 12-hour marathon for the last half-century.
Her work, at the border of representation and abstraction, cast a strong influence over younger painters but did not gain broad public recognition until late in her life.