(An Appropriate Distance)

 

FROM THE MAYOR'S DOORSTEP

One show I wanted to see—and was not disappointed by—was “Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York,” at the New-York Historical Society (closed, alas, September 1—I wish I’d gotten to it earlier, so I could have posted this review when the show was still open, and my readers would have been able to go see it).

As organized by Barbara Haskell of the Whitney and independent curator Sasha Nicholas,  Read More 

Upon learning from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that they were putting on “Julia Margaret Cameron,” I rushed to get there. I hoped that they would do a better job with this gifted portrait photographer (1815-1879) than MoMA did, when they staged “Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women,” back in 1999.  Read More 

A second show I saw at MoMA (after I took in Walker Evans) was one I expected nothing much from, and that was about what I got. It’s a bargain show at the Museum of Modern Art, almost completely culled from its permanent collection, and evidently designed to appeal to late summer tourists, but also provide grist for revanchist big-city pomonians. Read More