Word: porcelain
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...blaze of blue. Except for a few puffs of cloud, the sky is empty. Monet used only bright colors in this painting-reds, blues, greens and yellows -and he painted thin. The effect is purposely misleading; the viewer suspects that underneath the pigment lies not canvas, but porcelain...
Galleries first came to SoHo two years ago when Paula Cooper opened her cosy aerie up three flights of creaky, splintery stairs. More recent arrivals include Max Hutchinson, a peripatetic Australian; Reese Palley, an Atlantic City Boardwalk porcelain salesman; and smooth-talking, Brooklyn-born Ivan Karp. Uptown dealer Richard Feigen maintains a downtown branch in SoHo, and two more uptown power houses-Castelli and Emmerich-recently announced plans to open outlets in the neighborhood...
...every one of Loewinsohn's poems stops as ??? as a motorcycle on a dime. Some details are ???palpable as chunks of gristly meat: "a high ???ing/ of that attentuated stream of urine/ ???st the porcelain." Other details hang with the ???iness of hot air: "The sink full of dishes. ??? will have to be washed...
...inside with two escalators and a passageway in order to increase the flow of traffic to the rear galleries. "There will be a lot of screaming and yelling and nostalgia and recriminations," says Director Hoving, "but we need to get people back to those galleries. Go down to the porcelain galleries on the museum's lower level on any crowded day, and I'll guarantee you'll find no more than five people there...
...escalators the answer? The Met's porcelain galleries are not only behind Hunt's doomed staircase but down another much less visible set of stairs. Maybe some signs are needed. Or maybe there are fewer people in porcelain because more people like painting...