The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
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US 90 en route to Del Rio, Texas 1955
- When
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Sunday Oct 4, 2009 (2–4pm)
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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The afternoon program highlights Robert Frank's series of black-and-white photographs made on a cross-country road trip as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1955–56. A panel discussion titled "Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac, and Avant-garde Visual Culture of the Late 1950s" will be moderated by Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator at the Met, with Luc Sante, writer and critic, and author of Lowlife: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991); and Barney Rosset, legendary former owner of Grove Press and founder of Evergreen Review. Known for printing such censored classics as D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Rosset released Frank's groundbreaking book, The Americans, with an introduction written by Jack Kerouac in 1959. 2 p.m. in the Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
The program concludes with a viewing of Leaving Home Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank (2005), Gerald Fox, director (86 min.).
This Sunday at the Met is held in conjunction with the special exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans."
Image: Robert Frank (American, born Switzerland, 1924). U.S. 90, en route to Del Rio, Texas, 1955. Private collection, courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London. Photograph © Robert Frank, from “The Americans”
