New York Nocturnes

The Museum of the City of New York is currently featuring a dual exhibition of work by the wife-husband artists Yvonne Jacquette and Rudy Burkhardt. Burkhardt's photos of New York street scenes are fascinating, but Jacquette's paintings of nighttime aerial views of the city are the stars here. The paintings are captivating, revealing the quiet spots of darkness in the midst of the energetic light of New York. The strange, almost impossible angles transform the city from a riotous public spectacle to an object of solitary and even peaceful contemplation. They make the city yours alone.

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