Tag: west side canvas

I had created the forms, and now I would dress them with light and shadow. That’s how you stop time.

"There's just enough human-like articulation to the Frost Giant figures to play with your head," writes Robert Beck of last year's Ramble.

As I was painting, people would stand in front of me and take pictures of the sign over the door.

If it isn’t handled just right, in a week I start to look like a vegetable brush.

He danced off, waving his hand over his head, not quite blending in, walking on the sunny side of Broadway.

More of Robert Beck's exquisite art and observations.

Unusual discoveries are commonplace at Verdi Square, providing a parallel narrative about where we are as a place in time.

Summer is flowered dresses, late afternoon breezes, and Sunday evening music at Manny’s Bistro.

Now teaching, Cynthia Harvey is considered one of American Ballet Theatre's greatest Ballerinas of all time.

As Neil Gaiman said, "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers; a librarian can bring you back the right one."

My painting is both an aggregate and a selection of what I saw. It was, at every time and at no time, exactly like that.

He was working the whole time, measuring, calibrating, repairing, and listening. Then he would play.

There are many private gardens on the Upper West Side, but this one caught Robert Beck's fancy.

It’s more than a record of what’s new business-wise, having as much to do with the substance and culture of the UWS.

It was good to have someone on-site after an earthquake who knows the merry-go-round mechanicals.

It was the garments, the statements of fashion and personality, that mattered.

As the band got deeper into the set, I saw more people turned to watch them play.

There are a number of stores where you can get smoked fish on the Upper West Side, but there is only one Murray’s Sturgeon Shop.

"The sound is different up there. Just having nothing above your head feels good."

I pass tree sellers on my way to my studio along Columbus Avenue and Broadway.