A visual paean to New York at A Space (opens in new tab)

Contributed by Mary Sargent / John Berger declared that every image embodies a way of seeing, and the way that images gathered in “Amongst Other Things,” a recent group exhibition at A Space, embody is slow, sustained, and irreducibly human. The premise of the show was simple and deliberately unfashionable: to depict the landscape of New York through direct, on-site observation. Each of the twenty artists’ works channels a span of looking that may have taken hours, in the manner of artists su...