New York Today: How Big Mike, a Barbershop Painter, Broke Into the Art World

2019年6月30日星期日

New York Today: How Big Mike, a Barbershop Painter, Broke Into the Art World

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How Big Mike, a Barbershop Painter, Broke Into the Art World

James Estrin/The New York Times

By ALEX VADUKUL

From lunch-break sessions at the easel to Instagram fame to a solo show at a Chelsea gallery. In the words of one art dealer: 'How dare he use such colors?'

Calla Kessler/The New York Times

End of an Era for the Flatiron Building

By JANE MARGOLIES

With the departure of its longtime tenant, the building is joining a growing list of classic New York skyscrapers that are reinventing themselves.

The success of Rough Draft Bar and Books, which opened in 2017, has inspired other New Yorkers to open restaurants and bars in Kingston.

Richard Beaven for The New York Times

New Yorkers Are Scrambling to Make Dinner Reservations (90 Miles North of the City)

By ALYSON KRUEGER

Little Kingston, Exit 19 off the Thruway, is drawing restaurateurs, chefs, brewmasters and the people who love them.

Big City

'Everybody Ain't Surfing This Rainbow Wave': Why Divisions Endure in Gay Rights

By GINIA BELLAFANTE

In the 50 years since Stonewall, many strides have been made. But for gay people of color, the battle for equal rights isn't over.

Sunday Routine

Mr. Quint, at one of his stores in the West Village.

How the Face of Big Gay Ice Cream Spends His Sundays

By ALYSON KRUEGER

Even though Doug Quint's unicorn-and-rainbow brand has expanded to storefronts, the entrepreneur has not forgotten his food-truck roots. He still visits one in Red Hook, Brooklyn.