"... street furniture, outdoor advertising, and pedestrians ..."

Metropolitan Museum of of Art
New York, New York

New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940
September 23, 2008–January 4, 2009
The Howard Gilman Gallery

In the late 1930s, Rudy Burckhardt—then a recent émigré to America from Switzerland—created what are today considered to be some of the greatest photographs of New York ever made. This exhibition will present in its entirety a unique album (acquired by the Museum in 1972) of 67 now-classic images of street furniture, outdoor advertising, and pedestrians, selected and sequenced by Burckhardt in 1940."

[image from Met Web site. Caption: "Rudy Burckhardt (American, born Switzerland, 1914–1999), "Eagle" Barber Shop Window, New York City], 1939. Gelatin silver print; 7 1/16 x 9 11/16 in. (17.9 x 24.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1972 (1972.585.12) © Estate of Rudy Burckhardt."]

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Congratulations to the artist and to Creative Capital!

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Elaine Tin Nyo Cooking Lesson

OTO
60 North 6th Street (2nd floor) Brooklyn, NY, 11211
L train to Bedford Avenue
3 Blocks west on North 6th - just shy of Kent


On January 11, from 7pm to 10 pm, OTO is pleased to present “I Want to Make Some Tamales”, a cooking lesson by Elaine Tin Nyo.

Hands-on cooking lesson 7-8:30
Open public feeding 8:30 until the tamales run out

Enrollment is limited for the cooking lesson. Please contact mriver@mteww.com to reserve your place (materials fee: $5).

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Tenth Annual Video Marathon: MEDIUM COOL

Friday 11 January and Saturday 12 January, 12:00-6:00pm

Art in General’s Tenth Annual Video Marathon Medium Cool explores the current state of video art, situated in-between institutionalized ‘Video Art’ and the work emerging from the flow and dynamism of the Internet. Taking the title of Haskell Wexler’s film of 1969, which suggested a critique of Marshall McLuhan’s distinction between ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ media, Medium Cool suggests that video is an idea rather than a technology; as an umbrella term for a particular set of practices, it promises democracy while at the same time threatening to reduce images to information. Through two days of screenings, three events, and a dedicated website, the Marathon looks at a range of video practices, including early experiments within the media itself, while dealing with issues of video distribution and copyright, the making of (art) history and legacy through moving images, and the general impact of technology on contemporary culture.

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[image from Art In General press release. Caption: "William E. Jones, The Fall of Communism as seen in Gay Pornography, 1998, Courtesy of the artist."]