Say Ahh.(The Talk of the Town)(Malcolm Morley)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 23-APR-07

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A convenient place to have fallen ill one recent evening might have been the Cheim & Read gallery, on West Twenty-fifth Street, where, milling around in front of several large abstract canvases, were a gynecologist, a urologist, a breast-cancer surgeon, an integrative internist, and two orthopedic surgeons. They had gathered at the behest of the painter Malcolm Morley, who is seventy-five. Having logged significant time in medical precincts of late, Morley was moved to found an art-appreciation club for doctors. "You get into really quite an emotional experience when you've broken your hip," he said. "I found that a lot of doctors were interested in art but didn't know how...

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