Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
In an exhibition that opens on Thursday and draws upon highlights of its own collection, the American Folk Art Museum, at 45 West 53rd Street, examines the country's heritage and illuminates varying interpretations of enduring themes.
"Downtown Boom or Bust, Part I: Bowling Green to Wall Street" examines the conflict of continued growth and the desire for open space, meeting Sunday at 10 a.m. on the steps on the Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House, 1 Bowling Green.
The last time that I sawDr Garret FitzGerald, then about 70, he was zig-zagging on foot across a busy office street, examining the names beside each Georgian door in turn.
And Russian art is everywhere: The Guggenheim has works by Naum Gabo and Wassily Kandinsky; an exhibit at the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street examines "The Art and Impact of Fedor Solntsev" through June 16; and Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" is at the Metropolitan Opera the last week of June.
Martin Scorsese's divisive new film "The Wolf of Wall Street" examines the same dichotomy, from a very different angle.
Think, for example, of the possibility of using Google Maps and Google Street View for studying spatial aspects of crime and the ease with which we can virtually travel down most of the roads and streets to examine street corners, buildings and neighbourhoods.
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Sometimes the crows would go quiet and send out reconnaissance, one or two of them circling and landing in the street to examine a candy wrapper or the dregs of a garbage can that the sanitation men had emptied incompletely.
Elena Quiroga, a conscientious stylist, experimented with varying forms and themes, employing a dead protagonist in Algo pasa en la calle (1954; "Something's Happening in the Street") to examine domestic conflict aggravated by Franco's outlawing of divorce.
