"Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel on Fifth Avenue has born witness some of this and last centuries’ most talked-about services from Jackie Kennedy and Norman Mailer to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Heath Ledger. The funeral home plays muse for Cynthia Talmadge‘s transformative second exhibition at 56 Henry, 1076 Madison. The show is the artist’s first major exhibition of paintings. Done in an impressionist style, the paintings, which draw upon the facade of the New York landmark, gild the memory of the morbid icon much in the same way her first show glamorized the dorms of rehabilitation centers. Executed with the help of Charlap Hyman and Herrero, 1076 Madison examines our desire to decorate death."