You Will Meet A Tall, Handsome Stranger… On The Bowery
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Think Bowery and it is either the New Museum or the Bowery Mission that likely springs to mind. But right now it is also the place to view something whose rarity and finesse belies both associations: a newly discovered portrait by the most famous female old “master”, Artemisia Gentileschi.
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