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Category Archives: City Aesthetic

Courbet at The Met

08-Apr-08

I met Berenice Szurely (visiting from Paris) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art at 3:30 on this Tuesday in April. She had seen plenty of Courbet’s work in her native country, but this was the first major retrospective here in thirty years.
Any photographer, I think, would appreciate Courbet’s enhanced realism, his use of warm bathing [...]

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At Moma

14-Jan-08

On a damp and gray January afternoon I met Robo at MOMA on 53rd and 5th. It was my first visit to the newly-designed space since its renovation a few years ago. Free passes came my way from a good neighbor. 
The new museum is magnificent. The collection includes 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural [...]

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A Chilean in New York

03-Oct-07

If you have someone to talk with go to Grand Central Terminal. Tucked away in a corner of the Biltmore Room near tracks 41 and 42, a young company called StoryCorps have a slick-looking recording booth open to the public (by appointment). StoryCorps facilitates oral history documentation, that is, they want people to record their [...]

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