A documentary by a native New Yorker named Heather Quinlan, the film, having its premiere at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival on Thursday, examines the way that different immigrant groups adapted to speaking in the city, and illuminates the distinctions that were the result.
I suspect Mr. Struth had that in mind when photographing Oslo in the gloaming in 2001, the distant city lights illuminating the orange sky, his own shadow cast across a field of snow in the foreground, an unmanipulated panorama whose magnificence seems to say, "Take that, Gursky".
At night the city is illuminated across the calm, shimmering waters and it's a magical setting for camping.
Very good reasons indeed: some of these include the systemic killing of female philosophers, massacres of some of our earliest thinkers such as the Aztec; and the destruction of ancient African cities that illuminate the thinking of old civilisations.
This lavishly illustrated volume, edited by Donald Albrecht and Jeannine Falino and published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, illuminates the mansions, costumes and other accouterments of the people whose philanthropy helped produce the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera, but whose self-indulgence also gave big money a bad name.
Even in a newly illuminated city they were thought to carry little pools of darkness around inside themselves.
As dusk falls, the city begins to illuminate itself, and soon we're surrounded by vertical cascades of light.
From 12 to 15 November the sinister Norman city will be illuminated with the work of artists from all over the world.
"It was very difficult," said Silva, whose performances for Manchester City have so illuminated the Premier League this season.
Tree Lightings (Friday, and Monday through Wednesday) On Black Friday, let there be light: Christmas trees around the city will be illuminated that day and the next several, with a range of related festivities.
