FREE FOR DART subscribers: Tuesday, November 17, 6:30 pm
Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine

Celebrate the new exhibition and publication of Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine (Monacelli, 2009) with the curators and authors Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins.

Reaching a peak circulation of nearly eight million in the late 1960s, LOOK was a national publication attracted to New York City's allure. Albrecht and Mellins, who have explored in depth the 200,000 or so images in this special collection, will present a selection of highlights. A reception and book signing will follow.

Left: Producer Mike Todd, 1950; photographer: Stanley Kubrick; Museum of the City of New York, LOOK Collection. Right: Model Lisa Fonssagrives, 1947; photographer: Arthur Rothstein; Museum of the City of New York, LOOK Collection.

In the pre-television era, the editors of Look recognized the great demand for photographs of all kinds - politicians, titans of industry, and unsung heroes, glamorous events and intimate moments, society matrons and showgirls, violent crime and courtroom drama - that provided entertainment and diversion to voyeuristic subscribers to the magazine.

This special program is FREE to DART subscribers, but reservations are required as space is limited. Please call 212-534-1672, X 3395. Just mention DART/AI-AP and your tickets will be held for you. Please do not reply to this email.

Donald Albrecht is the curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York. As an independent curator, he prepared the first retrospective of the work of Eero Saarinen, currently on view at MCNY, and the international traveling exhibition The Work of Charles and Ray Eames, organized by the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum.

Thomas Mellins is an architectural historian and independent curator specializing in New York. He is the co-author, with Robert A. M. Stern, of New York 1880, New York 1930, and New York 1960. He has organized exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, The New York Public Library, the National Building Museum, and Yale University.

The Museum of the City of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street.
By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street.
By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 104th Street. Ramp access is available at the 104th Street entrance.

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