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The Miraculous
The Miraculous: New York
31. (27 Cooper Square)
By Raphael RubinsteinA couple, both writers, and two of their friends move into a cold-water rooming house that has been abandoned for the previous decade. They install heat and hot water in the four-story building. They edit a literary magazine in their kitchen.
The Miraculous: New York
32. (A six-story building on Cooper Square)
By Raphael RubinsteinThe year this painter and his wife, who is also a painter, move into their Cooper Square loft, he is hired by an art school in Philadelphia. Unwilling to leave New York, he spends part of the week teaching in Philadelphia and the rest of his time painting in his studio. He realizes early on that it is going to take him a long time to get his work to where he wants it to be.
The Miraculous: New York
33. (10 Cooper Square, 5 Cooper Square)
By Raphael RubinsteinOne evening in the mid-1950s a painter invites a sculptor friend over for drinks. As the two men sit in the painter’s studio, they notice music coming from a bar across the street. Intrigued, they walk over to see what’s happening.
The Miraculous: New York
34. (27 Cooper Square)
By Raphael RubinsteinSoon after moving with her husband and son into an apartment previously occupied by a radical sax player and his family, a painter decides it’s time to abandon the elaborate sculptural work she has been making and return to painting in oil on stretched canvases.
The Miraculous: New York
35. (48 Cooper Square)
By Raphael RubinsteinAfter resigning from a teaching position in San Francisco, a painter moves back to New York and takes a third-floor studio where one of his first paintings is a large canvas dominated by a textured red ground encroached on by jagged shapes of orange, brown and black.
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