N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York

"For this volume, curators from all seventeen curatorial departments collaborated to identify works that represent the scope of our collection in the most compelling way"--Director's foreword.

New York Is... offers answers to the question: What is New York in the eyes of artists? The Flatiron Building is shape; the Empire State Building is line. Washington Square Park is joyous; Times Square is spectacle. Among the enduring illustrations are paintings by Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, and Charles Demuth; photographs by Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Alfred Stieglitz, Garry Winogrand, and Cindy Sherman; and drawings,...