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Manhattan - The Place for City Art
New York Art World |
Theater in the City |
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| Tkts in Times Square -
SOLD by Myron Heise |
Variety Theater - East Village by Lisi |
| The views of Times Square, in the Theater District, is what one sees coming up from the subway steps to the street, so you have a upward movement of lines and perspective. This constricted view tends toward abstraction of forms, yet eveything is true to the scene. The motion picture West Side Story, an updated musical version of Romeo and Juliet, was filmed in a neighborhood of crowded tenements and narrow streets that no longer exist. On the spot where youth gangs of the 1950s fought each other in the film, now stands Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts, at Broadway and 64th Streeet. Broadway has always been lively, with music halls and simultaneous musical productions. |
Technically, Broadway is the longest street in America, for it used to run all the way out of the city up to Albany. Above Central Park West it was known as the Old Bloomingdale Road, until the Hudson River Railroad began stopping on New York's West Side in 1851. As it was built up and populated , the Old Bloomingdale Road became The Boulevard, a name it kept until 1899 when it was formally called Broadway or Upper Broadway. Broadway's theater is still alive, existing happily with the movie houses, and the Avenue still swings like a pendulum between the ugly and the glamorous. |
| Tkts in Times Square -
SOLD Oil on Canvas 24" X 18" by Myron Heise |
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Variety Theater - East Village Oil on Canvas 12" x 16" Joanna Lisi |