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The bar at Monterey Pub in Pittsburgh has a shiny new look. More than 14,000 zinc-coated copper pennies adorn the bar top in a swirl-like design which has been sealed with epoxy and is back again holding beer, wine and cocktails. “The old bar top needed something,” said general manager
“I’ve been painting like mad,” Ross said. “It’s all there is to do.”
The art world, on the other hand, maintains an unsure state between keeping doors open under inclement social conditions and dry revenue streams or cutting losses and shutting up shop. Galerie Sonia Monti in Paris shut down in February, for example, leaving Ross to scramble to find a new caretaker for his four exiled women’s portraits at La Tavola Italiana gain Milan.
“It actually fits that ( Nonna Tonsana ) is going back to Italy because it’s a portrait of an Italian grandmother that I painted when we were living in Italy,” Ross said.