Recently, we noted that Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre's 1838 photograph "Boulevard du Temple" is widely considered to be the first photograph to include an image of a human. The humans in the image - a shoeshine boy and his client - are scarily visible. The boulevard that Daguerre captured was later shortened to make way for the Place de la Republique, and as a result, the exact location of the shoeshine stand was lost to history. That is, until some enthusiastic filmmakers started hunting for it in 2024. Thanks to their research, a bronze plaque has now been placed at the spot.

  Thursday, November 5, 6-8pm: Yoshitomo Nara at Davis Zwirner Spanning David Zwirner Gallery’s 537 West 20th Street and 533 West 19th Street locations in New York, this exhibition will be Nara’s first major solo exhibition in New York in close to a decade The nearly one hundred works on view explore Nara’s multifaceted worldview through his ongoing search to identify what is uniquely his own. Behind his artistic creativity lies an approach originating from his soli...