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Six of Manhattan’s Best Bar Murals As I Chomp at the Bit to Return to Them
There is a certain style of drawing and painting that I associate with drinking in New York. During the quar, art in its vein is what I’ve been craving as I yearn for my former lifestyle as a freewheeling flâneuse about the city. I feel it in the felicity of Henri de Toulouse-Latrec’s partygoers, and in the opulence and energy of Florine Stettheimer’s group scenes. They revel in indulgence, they kiss, dance, smoke, and touch, they’re carefree and fun-loving, and they’re everything I am not while in quarantine. People say that you’re supposed to spend time with artwork that speaks...