Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abstract picture, it was almost good enough to flutter the dovecots on Manhattan's arty 57th Street. It won Baltimore Photographer Aubrey Bodine first prize in a Camera magazine contest. Turned on its right side, it proved to be nothing more than a sunlight& -shadow shot of a row of Baltimore's white marble stoops...
Last week a better, bolder painting caused a stir on Manhattan's 57th Street. Belgian Paul Delvaux' Temptation of St. Anthony-painted for a Hollywood competition (TIME, Mar. 25)-was drawing tiptoe crowds to the Knoedler Galleries...
Manhattan's 57th Street is where artist meets buyers in the U.S. The art dealers, who have to charge up to 50% commission to pay 57th Street's high rents, and the art critics, who have to scurry all season to cover the Street's scores of important shows, both regard 57th as the yardstick of art. Last week the scurrying slowed, the season waned, and dealers and critics sat back to review the "trends...
...critics no longer voted conservative, but technicians like John Whorf and Robert Strong Woodward, the Robert A. Tafts of art, kept right on pleasing the public with the kind of landscapes which recall vacations in the country. There were brief 57th Street appearances by Philip Evergood, George Biddle and other reporters of suffering and war, who did their best to give art a message...
...most expensive strip of real estate in the world (Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, between 42nd and 57th Streets) stand four churches. One of them is the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, whose 79-year-old, brownstone steeple is dwarfed by the neighboring towers of Rockefeller Center, the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral...