July is here, and so, for many, is beach season. Aaron Rose, who made his art-world début in his late fifties, at the 1997 Whitney Biennial, spent three summers in the early nineteen-sixties photographing the beaches of Coney Island. Shooting inconspicuously with a 35-mm. Leica, Rose caught his subjects unawares, and, in the process, captured the sweaty languor of New York City’s most iconic summer attraction. Seventy of Rose’s photographs from Coney Island are on view for the first time, at the Museum of the City of New York, until August 3rd.
Jackson Krule is a former contributing photo editor at The New Yorker.
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
Culture Desk
New York City Travel Posters Through the Decades
Images from a century past showcase colorful dreams of a magnetic metropolis.
By Nicholas D. Lowry
The Current Cinema
The Enchanting Archeological Romance of “La Chimera”
The ghosts of the past haunt Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, which stars Josh O’Connor as a tomb raider nursing a broken heart.
By Justin Chang
Books
When New York Made Baseball and Baseball Made New York
The rise of the sport as we know it was centered in Gotham, where big stadiums, heroic characters, and epic sportswriting once produced a pastime that bound a city together.
By Adam Gopnik
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, March 28th
A city landmark prepares for the end of the month.
By Ali Solomon