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Life of the City, a three-part exhibit, endeavors to portray New York City from a multitude of photographic perspectives. The first part, comprised of photographs culled from the museum’s permanent collection, surveys more than a century of photography in and of New York. A rotating display of photographs contributed by residents of and visitors to the city comprises the second section, and the final third consists of a cinematic presentation of work taken from Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, a project carried out by volunteers who collected photographs of the events...
Although at first glance the exhibit does not seem to present a cohesive front, the dynamic between the three parts is fascinating. After establishing the iconography of New York City in the first part, the second component reaches into the homes and daily lives of the people of New York. Part three then shows the impact of the destruction of one of the city’s own greatest icons on the lives of its people and the atmosphere of the city itself...
...until part three that New York itself is “untacked” from the walls and rendered differently. The images of the World Trade Center destruction are designed to unnerve the viewer by undermining the current of life running through the rest of the exhibit. However, the scenes displayed on the back-to-back monitors somehow seem more mundane than they should—these photographs merely add to the inundation of media surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks. They do not contribute to the exhibit in an aesthetic or artistic sense. Life of the City would...
Entitled “Three Women,” the show will display six paintings that have never before been shown in the same museum exhibit. The show will also be one of the first to highlight the artist’s early works—completed before he burst onto the Parisian art scene in 1891 with his print of the Moulin Rouge...
...This is an unprecedented instillation of early, early portraits of women in his circle that has not hung together since the time they were in his studio,” said Sarah B. Kianovsky, exhibit curator and assistant curator of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts for the Fogg...