Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result is a new breed of specialists in "customized" bathrooms. In fact, bathrooms are becoming a prestige item on the scales of conspicuous consumption, a place swimming pools used to hold before everybody had one. Luxury Lavatorist Sherle Wagner of Manhattan's 57th Street is selling baroque swans, dolphins, Cupids and sea horses for spouts and faucet handles as fast as he can gold-plate them, at $129.50 to $800 a set. Cut crystal is in, too, and the most sophisticated of all is pewter with gold decoration. "And, of course, marble like mad," says Wagner. "We just finished...
SALVADOR DALI-Knoedler, 14 East 57th...
HEDDA STERNE-Parsons, 24 West 57th...
WILLIAM PALMER-Midtown, 11 East 57th. Palmer is a teacher as well as a painter, and art students have much to learn from his glowing use of underpainting and subtle glazes. The show includes 25 new landscapes. Through...
FRANZ KLINE-Janis, 15 East 57th. At 40, the burly painter was unknown beyond New York's 10th Street galleries, but in the decade before his death last year he earned worldwide recognition as a dynamo of abstract expressionism. Mostly on loan and rarely shown are 30 paintings, spanning his heyday, from 1952 to 1962, which provide in Kline's first New York posthumous show a survey of his black-and-white clashes as well as some uncharacteristic excursions in flamboyant color. Through...