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...graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the top while he was still a student here, the bottom, several years later. If you look up, above the ticket window and the marquee, you will see what appears to be the façade of a Beaux-art style theater. Winer is an expert of trompe l’oeil, a style of painting which tries to fool the eye into thinking it is real. Winer has painted murals all around Boston, including one on Newbury Street of another old-fashioned façade of a caf?...

Author: By Cara B. Eisenpress, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tales of Public Art | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

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