Art: Neo-scopist

This week at Manhattan's Morton Galleries, interested visitors stood peering into the insides of six hemispheres a yard in diameter, made of papier mache. Each could be raised or lowered on its stand to fix the spectator's eye in the exact centre, even with the rim. Then by rolling his eyes the gallerygoer could see painted on the inside of the hemisphere everything that had come within the painter's field of vision when he looked wide-eyed at his subject. Responsible for this unique artistic experience was a freckled, 31-year-old artist named Robert...

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