{"id":169,"date":"2006-09-04T23:46:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T23:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/?p=169"},"modified":"2017-09-05T00:56:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T00:56:33","slug":"2006-rae-centennial-how-ben-met-rae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/2006-rae-centennial-how-ben-met-rae\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 Rae Centennial &#8211; How Ben Met Rae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_174\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/388.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174\" class=\"wp-image-174 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/388-162x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/388-162x300.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/388-553x1024.jpg 553w, https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/388.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seated Figure in Peignoir<br \/> Pencil on paper, 8 x 5 in.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rae Solowey described how she met Ben to her friend, writer Helen Papashvilly, in a undated letter from the 1980s. The story begins in New York City in February, 1930&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We were in the area of 72nd Street when he said, &#8216;Let\u2019s stop and see my friend Ben Solowey,&#8217; which we did do, only to have no one show! Nothing daunted, as they say, a month later, in the same general area, same routine but, an answering bell from Ben (his studio was on the 5th floor). Looking up from the ground one, through a maze of banister \u2013 there was Ben. In retrospect, and accustomed as I am to Ben\u2019s present studio, in itself an artwork, created, if you will, by him, the 72nd Street one was rather \u2014 unobtrusive. On the easel, a jewel like still life. As we were leaving, he asked if I\u2019d have dinner with him the next night, but I was doing something else. The next night? The magic sesame \u2014 at dinner \u2014 he asked me to marry him. Said he would done so the first night, except for this person\u2019s presence! Difficult not to invoke the &#8216;what if&#8217; syndrome had Ben been off his premises the second time \u2014 that just might have been that!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solowey.com\/newsletter\/WhenBenMetRae.html\">READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rae Solowey described how she met Ben to her friend, writer Helen Papashvilly, in a undated letter from the 1980s. The story begins in New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rae-solowey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solowey.com\/exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}