The Miraculous
The Miraculous: New York
51. (Both Banks of the Hudson River)
By Raphael RubinsteinFollowing the destruction of the World Trade Center towers an artist turns his attention toward the distant past of New York City, specifically to initial encounters between the region’s indigenous Lenape people and early Dutch colonialists.
The Miraculous: New York
52. (New York’s Waterways)
By Raphael RubinsteinUpon graduating from art school, a young artist attends a boat-building school in Northern California. When she moves to New York City a few years later she puts her newly-acquired nautical skills to use by building a small boat capable of circumnavigating Manhattan.
The Miraculous: New York
53. (The Shoreline of the South Bronx)
By Raphael RubinsteinAfter learning that the New York City Parks Commission oversees some 30,000 acres of public parkland, an artist its outraged to discover the existence of a century-old law that makes it illegal to grow or to pick edible plants on any of this land.
The Miraculous: New York
54. (The East River)
By Raphael RubinsteinShortly before dawn after plying themselves with copious amounts of rum an artist and a friend set out from Long Island City for Belmont Island, a 100-by-200 foot rocky outcropping in the East River near the United Nations Headquarters.
The Miraculous: New York
55. (Gansevoort Peninsula)
By Raphael RubinsteinInvited to visit a newly built museum before it opens to the public, an artist is more taken with the view of the nearby Hudson River than with the museum itself.
