New York, N. Why?

Jenna Bliss, Bill Bollinger, Lorenzo Bueno, Rudy Burkhardt, Martha Diamond, Louis Eisner, Andrew J. Greene, Keith Haring, Alex Katz, Mathieu Malouf, Rose Marcus, Jeanette Mundt, Kayode Ojo, Kon Trubkovich

The exhibition title is borrowed from a collaborative project between Edwin Denby and Rudy Burkhardt from ca. 1939. The two met in Burckhardt’s hometown of Basel, Switzerland in 1934 and moved the following year to New York, where they shared a loft on West 21st Street next door to the painter Willem de Kooning. Included throughout the album are sonnets written by Denby to accompany Burckhardt’s photographs of advertising and street furniture, newsstands and barbershops, and the balletic movements of pedestrians on the sidewalks of the city.