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Calling All Voters: Participatory Budgeting is Back BY SEAN EGAN For the second year running, it’s time for the residents of Council District 3 to vote for their favorite Participatory Budgeting ballot items. Adopted in 2015, the Participatory Budgeting process allows members of the community, ages 14 and up, to propose projects that would improve the community — and then vote on the top five they would like to see accomplished. Winning Participatory Continued on page 6

Faux Fan Grills Hot-Dogging ‘Rooftopper’ BY COLIN MIXSON Daredevil shutterbug James McNally professes to have scaled just about every marquee high-rise in New York City — with One World Trade Center and the Empire State Building being the only notable exceptions — and he’s happy to admit that his trips to the city’s highest reaches never come with an invitation. “We know it’s illegal,” he said, “but we want to show these amazing views.” Continued on page 4

SHARP DOC BRINGS FILMMAKER INTO FOCUS Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) cuts a fascinating figure worthy of study and praise. A new documentary does just that. See page 19.

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Chelsea residents rallied in Midtown last week to protest the imminent closure of one of the neighborhood’s last remaining affordable supermarkets, the Associated at 255 W. 14th St.

Locals Rally to Extend Supermarket’s Shelf Life BY YANNIC RACK Loyal customers of an Associated supermarket — located at W. 14th St. and Eighth Ave. for almost three decades — took their fight to save the beloved neighborhood store to the Midtown headquarters of Pan Am Equities last week, urging the landlord to rethink an astronomical rent increase that will likely force the market to close its doors in May. Supported by local elected officials and representatives from other neighborhoods across the city, Chelsea and West Village residents rallied on the sidewalk in front of the company’s Midtown headquarters (18 E. 50th St., btw. Fifth & Madison Aves.), on Fri., Mar. 18. “This is just a continuation of us saying, ‘You’re not going to take an essential community service away from our neighborhood just because of greed.’ And we’re going to keep up the fight,” said City Councilmember Corey Johnson, who organized the rally.

“It’s our hope that, in this day and age, a very wealthy real estate company will hopefully do what’s right,” Johnson told the protesters, “and not just try to make a little extra money on the backs of so many people who rely on this supermarket — day in and day out — for fresh fruits and vegetables, and for affordable groceries.” Although the crowd that made the 20-minute trip to Midtown was decidedly smaller than the 100-plus assemblage that packed the sidewalk outside of the store’s W. 14th St. location five days earlier, passions nonetheless ran high during the one-hour protest. “It’s the destruction of small businesses,” proclaimed Charles Bayor, a member of Community Board 4 and a resident of Penn South, who voiced his disapproval with a bright red sign that read “Don’t Close Our Supermarket.”

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Commercial Rent Control Stalled, as Supermarket Struggles Continued from page 1 Bayor, like many patrons of the store, said he regularly shops at the Associated because of its reasonable prices. “We’re losing all our stores that are affordable,” he said. “It’ll be very hard to exist in a neighborhood where everything is so expensive.” Francine Haselkorn, standing next to Bayor with a sign that read “Save NYC!,” agreed. “This is an essential issue,” said the Hell’s Kitchen resident. “It represents another nail in the coffin of what a middle class person can do in New York City.” One of the owners of the shop, which opened at its current spot between Seventh and Eighth Aves. in 1989, told Chelsea Now last week that the landlord is demanding a monthly rent of more than $100,000, up from the current rate of $32,000. But many locals say they have come to depend on the store, as a place where they can buy fresh produce, and even have their food delivered for free within a 10-block radius — an essential service for senior and disabled residents of the area. “A lot of middle-income folks, low-income families won’t have a place to buy fruits and vegetables anymore,” said State Senator Brad Hoylman, who marched together with the residents. “[Pan Am] won’t even come to the table and negotiate, and that’s what irks me and so many

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Shortly after the images from atop the Hudson Yards development surfaced on McNally’s Instagram account, he received an email message from a man claiming to be a big fan of his rooftopping work, and said he wanted to meet and talk shop. The photographer took his self-proclaimed fan up on the invite, and the pair arranged to meet at a Williamsburg coffee shop — but not before McNally did a little research on his alleged admirer.” “I saw right away his LinkedIn, and it was a whole list of security company jobs…and I already knew it was not a photography fan,” McNally recounted. “But I wanted see if they would go through with it and see what their whole spiel was.” At the coffee shop, McNally met a “nice” gentleman in weekend casual

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BY DONNA MINKOWITZ Several hundred people in clingy dresses, tattoos, and/or activist shirtsleeves turned out Thurs., Mar. 3 for the first-ever Impact Awards. Founded by Chelsea Now’s sister publication, Gay City News, the event honors extraordinary activists in the LGBTQ community. Attendees, queer and straight, descended on Brooklyn’s Grand Prospect Hall — which just may be the queerest event venue in the city, with its yuuuge crystal chandeliers, gold leaf to die for, sweeping marble staircases, and oil paintings with swooning maidens. “Everyone who enters the extravagant lobby and spectacular spaces feels taller, more important, grander,” declares the Grand Prospect Hall’s website, and that certainly seemed to be true for the gorgeous crowd who came to honor family and friends — .com

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Continued from page 1 Budgeting items are paid for with capital funds allocated by Councilmember Corey Johnson (the top vote-getter is fully paid for, with projects greenlit until the allocated amount of $1 million has been distributed). The 15 projects on this year’s ballot are divided into six categories: Education, Environment, Park & Recreation, Transit, Youth, and Arts, Culture & Community Facilities. Voting takes place Mar. 26–Apr. 3, at six area facilities (early voting was available to those who attended a Mar. 22 Community Expo, held at PS340, where various project sponsors made the case for their particular ballot item). There’s no shortage of efforts and initiatives worth your vote. One such project is Item 12 — a proposal to replace the dysfunctional HVAC cooling system in the NYPL’s Muhlenberg Library (209 W. 23rd St., btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves.). “At the moment, the system that we’re using is not really adequate to cover the entire branch. We’re a threefloor branch,” explained the Muhlenberg manager, Lateshe Lee, who describes issues with keeping a consistent temperature throughout the building. This is particularly troubling, as the branch functions as an official NYC Cooling Center. “We let people sit all day if they need

to, or just come in briefly and take a rest from the heat,” she elaborated, noting that it provides relief to the homeless population, as well as making the many programs for adults and kids more enjoyable. Other public spaces being put to a vote include renovations to two basketball courts, as well as improvements to DeWitt Clinton and Chelsea Parks. School improvements are also well-represented this year. Lab MS, Lab HS, and Museum High are seeking both gym and bathroom renovations, while the new 75 Morton Street middle school is looking to build a green roof. As reported in Chelsea Now last year, the recently opened City Knoll Middle School (425 W. 33rd St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.) is in desperate need of a library for its students, and is looking to the Participatory Budgeting process for help. “There’s lots of empty shelves,” said Principal Victoria Armas. “We’re looking to renovate the space with updated bookcases, furniture, lighting. and technology. We’d like some desktop computers, definitely, with some digital libraries on them for us to use, as well as opportunities for kids to do research, which is an important part of our curriculum.” PS11 (320 W. 21st St., btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.) is also looking to Participatory Budgeting, in order to

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Forum Calls for Sensible Gun Reform BY DONATHAN SALKALN, CRDC “My son was on school break in Paris during the attacks,” began New York State Senator Keith Wright at a public “Forum on Firearms,” sponsored by Chelsea Reform Democratic Club (CRDC) and the Village Independent Democrats (VID) on Wed., Mar. 9. “I get a call from him. I didn’t even know about the attacks yet,” Wright explained. “My son tells me he gets out of the subway and hears bullets firing and he smells the gunpowder. I asked him how did he get out of it. He says, ‘Dad, I’m from Harlem, so I know how to get out of the way from bullets.’ ” Wright called the conversation “a sad indictment on our society,” shaking his head in remorse, or perhaps in remembrance of all the mothers in his district that have gotten phone calls telling them of sons being shot. Wright said, “Gun violence is glorified by our society. There is a disregard for human life.” The frustration of spinning wheels against the NRA’s blockade of sensi-

ble gun reform in Congress and the New York State Senate was echoed by all the speakers at Chelsea’s Fulton Center Auditorium (119 Ninth Ave., btw. W. 17th & W. 18th Sts.). Richard Aborn, instrumental in the country’s passage of the Brady Bill (1994) and the current president of Citizens Crime Commission of NYC, declared, “We won before and we can win again. It takes a lot of grassroots work. It is a stain that is unique to our country, but a stain that we can remove!” Wright and Leah Gunn Barrett (Executive Director, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence) compared gun deaths to a national health crisis. They referred to statistics. Firearms fatalities have risen from 31,672 in 2010 to 33,636 (a 2013 stat, it nearly eclipses the 33,782 auto deaths from that same year). “Like we regulated the auto industry in requiring manufacturing of safer autos, strict driving and seat belt laws, and driver’s education, we need put more gun regulation in place,” said Barrett.

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State Senator Keith Wright called his son’s seasoned reaction to gunfire “a sad indictment on our society.”

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer added, “Why the gun manufacturers have not developed a ‘smart gun’ is just a continuing saga of the NRA dictating gun policy in our country.” As moderated by Joel Vatsky of CRDC’s Executive Committee, and Nadine Hoffman, VID’s President, the forum presented attendees with a fully

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An Adele Adieu is Overdue BY LENORE SKENAZY Walk into the grocery and there she is. Shop for shoes, she’s shopping by your side. Need to cross a lobby? Drive to Jersey? Drink yourself into a stupor? My God — she is there, too: in the hotel, the car, the seedy bar’s seedy bathroom, seeping through the pipes. She is everywhere, always ready to start a conversation: “Hello. It’s me.” Of course it is. It always is. It is Adele. Now I know there must be some people — okay, several — who can’t get enough of Adele. Her “Hello” video on YouTube has, well, lemme check — 1,365,796,325 views so far. Not bad. But I was relieved to learn that it isn’t just me who is on the other side (as it were) of Adele-mania. “The only reason she’s popular is because Amy Winehouse is dead,” is how lifestyle blogger Amanda Lauren put it, rather bluntly, in a phone interview before using a very strong word.

“I hate Adele.” Google those three little words and you will find a tsunami of similar sentiments, some laced with the kind of venom usually reserved for presidential frontrunners. “On behalf of the British nation, I apologize,” wrote one guy. Wrote another, “I can’t take it anymore!” A bit more thoughtfully, one blogger wrote, “Every Adele song is so damn formulaic, it is unbelievable. I can’t imagine any kind of emotional process that went on during the recording of any Adele song other than, ‘Hey, remember that one song I wrote with the four sad piano chords and I belted the song title in the chorus? Let’s try that again.’ ” He’s anti-Adele for artistic reasons. But others are simply staggering under Adele Overload. “Today I heard it” — we know what song “it” is — “four different places,” Yvonne Lederer, a marketing director in Westport, sighed. “She’s an entertaining singer, but enough! I just feel like everywhere I’m going she wants

me to be really upset about a past lover, and I’m not going to go there.” Ah, but where else can you go? Adele is harder to escape than Mister Softee, and shares a certain stickiness. In a desperate attempt to pare the Adele quotient down in her life, Lederer and her friends have actually stopped using the word “Hello.” Now, instead, they say, “’Sup?,” explains Lederer: “We’re protesting.” This can be an act of psychological self-preservation. When poet Erica Gerald Mason took her Toyota to the dealership for some warranty-required work, she had just settled into the waiting room, when you-know-who started singing in the background. The mechanic walked in and Mason practically burst into tears. “This can’t be good news!” she cried. “You’re going to tell me you have to rebuild my engine, right?” He looked at her quizzically. Uh, no. He’d just come out to say…“Hello.” “He asked me why I had that reaction and I said, ‘Someone Like You’ is playing right now. This is not a song for good times. This is the song you hear when you need a new transmission.

Play something else.” The problem is that that “something else” is likely to be something else by Adele. She’s not just popular, she has redefined popularity. “Hello” was played almost 5 million times in just its first 24 hours on Spotify (take that, Taylor, honey). Her album, “25,” sold 8 million units last year — more than any other album since 2011. And I think you know whose album that was. So now I’m taking my cue from my pal Hannah Pazderka, whose family has turned Adele-mania into a game. “Whenever we’re out shopping and Adele starts playing, it means we’ve probably been there long enough, so someone invokes the ‘Adele rule,’ and we have to leave,” she said. That one trick means spending less, and actually heading out into the day, where it’s probably not nearly as gray and rainy as you thought it was. Hello to the outside. Lenore Skenazy is a keynote speaker who authored the book, and founded the blog, Free-Range Kids (freerangekids.com).

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March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a reminder to all New Yorkers that the risk of colon cancer can be greatly reduced by getting a colonoscopy. In New York City, according to the New York Citywide Colon Cancer Control Coalition (C5), which includes the NYC Health + Hospitals, colorectal cancer is the second deadliest cancer, killing approximately 1,400 people each year. If caught early, ninety percent of colorectal cancers are curable. It’s no surprise to me people don’t want to talk about colon cancer or worse, colonoscopies. However, as the Chief of Gastroenterology, I’ve seen first-hand how colonoscopies save lives. So we must talk about it. I strongly urge all New Yorkers 50 and older to get a colonoscopy once every 10 years. Those with a family

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history of colorectal cancer should discuss with their physician whether they should be screened earlier. I’m glad to say colon cancer awareness and the work of the C5 coalition in NYC has helped to close the disparity in colon cancer screening rates that exists in most other parts of the country among blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics. In New York City, the colonoscopy screening rate is now the same across ethnic groups, this is great news! Just last year Manhattan hospitals in our health care system performed more than 6,000 colonoscopies. While this is great for our borough, there are plenty of people who have not yet had this vital screening. Patients need to understand the factors related to lifestyle that may put them at higher risk, such as obesity, smoking, lack of physical ac-

tivity and heavy alcohol use. It’s also important to remember people with colon cancer often have no symptoms until the disease has reached advanced stages, and by the time people experience symptoms, treatment can be difficult or ineffective. Signs of colon cancer may include: • A change in bowel habits, including diarrhea, constipation or a change in consistency of stool • Rectal bleeding or blood in stool • Persistent abdominal discomfort, such as cramps, gas or pain • A feeling that the bowel does not completely empty after a bowel movement • Weakness or fatigue • Unexplained weight loss If you are 50 or over, or have family history of colorectal cancer, I urge you to talk to your doctor, and reduce your risk of colon cancer

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(Sat., Mar. 19) by the 49-year-old victim, was put in motion around the end of Oct. 2015. That’s when the man, who was trying to sell his bicycle to the doorman of his building, decided to lend the prospective purchaser the bike for a time — to ensure he still wanted to buy it, for their agreed price of $450. The doorman, however, kept the bike in his possession without paying. Later, when he was fired from the building, he was seen taking the bike with him from the premises, according to the building manager. Video of the incident is available upon request.

DWI: Copper catches trashed chopper After being arrested on Sun., Mar. 20, one 50-year-old Brooklyn man must have wished that he had just hunkered down for the evening at a biker bar. It was on that afternoon, around 3:30 p.m., he found himself face to face with a police officer who was responding to an accident the uneasy rider had gotten into at the southwest corner of 12th Ave. & W. 26th St. “I couldn’t stop,” said the leather and bandanna-clad driver of the 2015 HarleyDavidson motorcycle. But his pleas fell on deaf (or at least disinterested) ears, as the officer was more interested in getting to the bottom of the boozy biker’s distinct smell of alcohol and precarious posture than listening to a litany of excuses. Upon being administered a portable breath test, the soused cyclist blew a .144 BAC, and later blew a .189 on an Intoxicated Driver Testing Unit administered to him at the Seventh Precinct. The reckless hog aficionado was arrested.

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THE 10th PRECINCT Located at 230 W. 20th St. (btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves.). Commander: Deputy Inspector Michele Irizarry. Main number: 212-741-8211. Community Affairs: 212-741-8226. Crime Prevention: 212-741-8226. Domestic Violence: 212-741-8216. Youth Officer: 212741-8211. Auxiliary Coordinator: 212-924-3377. Detective Squad: 212-741-8245. The Community Council meets on the last Wed. of the month, 7 p.m., at the 10th Precinct or other locations to be announced. The next meeting is Mar. 30. .com

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Two of the protesters found time to share a smile while urging the landlord to “Keep Our Neighborhood Affordable!”

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Village resident and Associated regular Martin Kornfeld, right, and Claire August, another patron, signed a petition to keep the store open. “You gotta get in their faces,” Kornfeld said of the landlord. “That’s the only way you can get them to do anything.”

Continued from page 2 members of our community. Try to strike a fair deal. Don’t price a long-standing business out of our community. That’s not right. “It’s important that the community comes out, stands in front of their office,

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and lets the landlord know that it is not going to take this sitting down,” he added. The picketers, holding up colorful signs and marching in a circle, gave their grievances vocal expression with chants that included “Feed, not greed,” “Save our supermarket,” “Negotiate the real estate” and “Shame on you, Pan Am.”

Despite much high-profile shaming ever since the rent increase became public knowledge, Pan Am Equities has not responded to inquiries from this publication, or calls from elected officials — prompting Johnson to inquire about a face-to-face in the lobby of the office building, where he was told by a receptionist that nobody was interested in engaging the protesters or the councilmember. “They were instructed not to talk to us,” Johnson told the crowd outside. “That means they’re already listening,” shouted one woman hopefully. Miguel Acevedo, who lives at the Fulton Houses public housing development and heads the tenant association there, said the closure would have far-ranging impacts on the entire neighborhood. “That Associated and the Western Beef on West 16th Street are the only supermarkets that are affordable in the community,” he said. “If we lose Associated, Western Beef will have the opportunity to raise their prices — so it’s going to really have an effect on the Chelsea community.” Acevedo, who has lived in one of

the development’s nearly 1,000 apartments for all his life, remembered when Western Beef was still located on W. 14th St. and eventually forced out by a rent increase as well — which led to elected officials stepping in and securing a replacement space two blocks north, albeit one half the size of the original store. “If you take Associated away, it will definitely displace low-income tenants in our community,” he said. “We’re just going to get more Stella McCartney’s and Apple stores; that’s what they’ll probably put in there.” Acevedo said the only real solution was to bring legislation for a right to commercial lease renewal to a vote in the City Council, where such a bill — the Small Business Jobs Survival Act — has been stalled for years. Johnson, who is a sponsor of the Act, said there were doubts about the legality of the bill in its current form, but added that he was committed to resolving the issue. “Commercial rent control existed in New York City for many, many years. It was abolished decades ago, and I think given the crisis we’re seeing facing small .com

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ncrease, Say Grocery Store Supporters businesses in the city, we have to bring some type of rent control or mediation back, so that small businesses can actually survive and not have their leases doubled, tripled, quadrupled, only to be driven out,” he said. “The underlying problem is, if you walk through Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen — really any neighborhood in Manhattan and the rest of the city — you will see not dozens of empty storefronts, but hundreds of empty storefronts. We’re losing the character of our city.” Johnson added that, in the meantime, he would look for a way to keep the Associated in the neighborhood, although there weren’t many options if the landlord continued to refuse an open discussion. “I’m not 100 percent optimistic, but hopefully they’ll do the right thing,” he said. Acevedo warned that if nothing was done soon, the future looked dire. “The mom-and-pop stores, every week you see a different one closing down,” he said. “If you take the supermarkets away, it will become impossible to live in Chelsea.” .com

Protesters came from near and far to support the supermarket. “I’m here because this is a citywide problem. They’re closing down mom-and-pop stores throughout the city, and this is a fight that we all need to fight together,” said Upper East Side resident and Community Board 8 member Loraine Brown. March 24 - 30, 2016

Participatory Budgeting Projects Seek Your Support Continued from page 6 secure a new Audio/Visual (A/V) system. “It just doesn’t properly function on a regular basis,” said Michael Walsh, who is on the board of the PTA. “We’re an artsbased elementary school, so the kids do a lot of performing and a lot of music, theater, and dance.” Walsh also noted that the school’s current programming happens only because of parents who lend out their own personal equipment. “As an institution, we can’t always rely on the fact that we’re going to have a parent who has that kind of stuff,” said Walsh. “This is an attempt to make ourselves self-sustaining.” Still, while everyone has their own project they are most invested in, all can agree the Participatory Budgeting is a worthwhile and useful program, no matter how voting turns out. Armas described the process as a “wonderful experience” and “true democracy,” while Walsh called it “an amazing thing.” “I think it’s great, honestly. It gives people an opportunity to see what’s needed throughout the community,” asserted Lee. “There [are] just a lot of projects that are on [the ballot] that you wouldn’t know about if it wasn’t for Participatory Budgeting. And it gives us a voice, you know, a vote on the things that we think are important.” For more info, text PB03 to 212-676-8384, call 212-5647757, send an email to pbnyc@council.nyc.gov, or visit council. nyc.gov/pb.

VOTING LOCATIONS AND TIMES COUNCILMEMBER COREY JOHNSON’S DISTRICT OFFICE (224 W. 30th St., btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves. Suite 1206). Mar. 28– Apr. 1, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

COLUMBUS LIBRARY (742 10th Ave., btw. W. 50th & W. 51st Sts.). Mar. 26 & Apr. 2, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

GREENWICH HOUSE MUSIC SCHOOL (46 Barrow St., btw. Bedford & Bleecker Sts.). Mar. 26– 27 & Apr. 2–3, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

HUDSON GUILD ELLIOTT-CHELSEA COMMUNITY CENTER (441 W. 26th St., btw. Ninth & 10th Aves.). Mar. 26–27 & Apr. 2–3, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

HUDSON GUILD FULTON SENIOR CENTER (119 Ninth Ave., btw. W. 17th & W. 18th Sts.). Apr. 2–3, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

THE LGBT CENTER (208 W. 13th St., btw. Seventh & Greenwich Aves.). Mar. 26–27 (in Room 101) & Apr. 2–3 (in Room 110), 10 a.m.–6 p.m.

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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING BALLOT ITEMS PARK & RECREATION ITEM 1: Grounds Renovation at Elliott-Chelsea Houses ($500,000) Add new playground fencing, renovate walkways, and revitalize garden and grassy areas. Project would be designed to budget, and priority areas would be determined in conjunction with the RA leadership. (425 W. 25th St., btw. Ninth & 10th Aves.) ITEM 2: Repair/Reopen Staircase at DeWitt Clinton Park ($500,000) The southwest entrance staircase is crumbling and has been closed for years. Repairing this entrance will make the park accessible to visitors and easier for children to enter on 12th Ave. (W. 52nd St. & 11th Ave.) ITEM 3: Renovation of Historic Field House at Downing Street Playground ($250,000) Restoration towards the Downing St. playground’s historic field house and bathrooms to make them wheelchair accessible. (1 Downing St., at Sixth Ave.) ITEM 4: New Fitness Equipment for Chelsea Park ($180,000) New fitness units, including safety surfacing, seating and drinking fountain replacement. (W. 27th St. & 10th Ave.)

EDUCATION ITEM 5: New Audio/Visual System for PS11 ($75,000) A new Audio/Visual System in the auditorium of PS11. The school needs a working A/V system to fulfill its curriculum requirements for students. (320 W. 21st St., btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.) ITEM 6: Bathroom Renovation Phase 2 — Lab MS, Lab HS, and Museum High ($560,000) Phase 2 renovations will make needed repairs to bathrooms on upper floors, addressing health and hygiene concerns for the school community. (333 W. 17th St., btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.) ITEM 7: Gym Renovation — Lab MS, Lab HS and Museum High ($300,000) Gym improvements with exploration to build more communal space will address broken bleachers, difficult to operate scoreboard, flooring to support aerobic activity, and create more educational space. (333 W. 17th St., btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.) ITEM 8: A New Library for City Knoll School ($300,000) Technological and construction updates to create a library space at City Knoll

School. This project will help engage students and prepare them for the skills needed in the 21st century. (425 W. 33rd St., btw. Ninth & 10th Aves.) ITEM 9: A Green Roof for 75 Morton Street School ($200,000) Build a green roof on the new middle school coming to 75 Morton St. This would provide new physical and educational opportunities for students. (75 Morton St., btw. Greenwich & Hudson Sts.)

TRANSIT ITEM 10: Real Time Rider Information at Bus Stops ($100,000) Electronic boards to display real time bus arrival information at five key bus stops, offering convenience for riders. The proposed locations will be subject to feasibility analysis by the Department of Transportation. (District-wide) ITEM 11: More Turnstiles at C/E 50th St. Station ($135,000) Install two additional turnstiles at the entrance/exit of the C/E 50th St. uptown platform. More turnstiles will ease congestion and reduce wait times for passengers at this entrance/exit. (C/E Subway Station at W. 50th St. & Eighth Ave.)

ARTS CULTURE & COMMUNITY FACILITIES ITEM 12: Cool Muhlenberg Library. Renovate HVAC System ($500,000) Replace the building’s HVAC cooling unit to ensure that the branch can continue to serve as a cool space in the summer months, which includes serving as an official NYC Cooling Center. (209 W. 23rd St., btw. Seventh & Eighth Aves.)

YOUTH ITEM 13: Renovate the Basketball Court at Chelsea Park ($350,000) The basketball court needs to be improved for the safety and enjoyment of the community. This project would repave the court and install new rims. (W. 27th St. & 10th Ave.) ITEM 14: Renovate the Basketball Court at Gertrude Kelly Playground ($350,000) Renovate the basketball court and adjacent sidewalk at Gertrude Kelly Playground. (W. 17th St., btw. Eighth & Ninth Aves.)

ENVIRONMENT ITEM 15: New Trees for Council District 3 ($100,000) Plant new trees and install tree guards on blocks with few or no trees throughout District 3. (District-wide) .com

Downtown Daredevils: ‘Rooftoppers’ High on Lower Manhattan Continued from page 4 attire, who was armed with a photo album that only served to confirm the rooftopper’s suspicions. “They were terrible pictures,” he said. “I was like, ‘Why are you talking to me about photography?’ ” It wasn’t long before the so-called photography fan spilled the beans, and admitted he was a private investigator with a security outfit contracted to protect Hudson Yards — but the game wasn’t quite up, McNally said. The surreptitious security professional continued to stroke McNally’s ego, and spoke of the possibility of paying the photographer for penetration tests, in which he would sneak into the building in an attempt to work out flaws in the building’s security system. However, the conversation kept coming back to the Hudson Yards shots on McNally’s Instagram, and the urban explorer said he’s certain that the investigator merely wanted McNally to cop to the alleged trespassing there. “He, probably a dozen times, if not more, tried to get me to go on record saying that,” McNally said. “He was very focused on that property.” McNally declined to share the investigator’s name, or the security company he worked for, but said the encounter proves that private security companies are starting to focus on combating rooftoppers as a means of shoring up their client’s liability, and deduced that his “fan” was an expert in repelling the kind of trespassing McNally routinely perpetrates. “I think he was a subject matter expert on this. I’m not so naive to think this isn’t on the radar of security companies,” he said. “If I’m a big security company, whose bread and butter is protecting big construction sites, this is going to be on my radar.” As much attention as McNally has received from Hudson Yards — whose developer, Related Companies, declined to comment for this story — he’s infamous, if not more so, amongst Downtown property owners. Late last year, McNally “hacked” the tower at 70 Pine St., located between Pearl and William Sts., in an escapade .com

that he documented with a Go-Pro camera that recorded his ascent from the lobby all the way up to the top of its airy spire, nearly 1,000 feet above the streets of the Financial District. In response to that trespass, property managers at 70 Pine St., along with representatives from other towers similarly invaded by outlaw photographers, met with members of Community Board 1 (CB1) and officers of the First Precinct on Mar. 2, in an effort to better understand how to defend themselves from the rooftopper rampage. The property owners are concerned that this fad among young photographers is exploding in popularity, and that the trend is only going to pick up steam once the weather warms, according to a representative for 70 Pine St. “It’s cool, and everybody’s going to want to do it,” said Joseph Alexander, development project manager for DTH Capital, which along with Rose Associates owns the former office tower, now being converted to a luxury residential building. “There’s a clear intention that people want to continue to climb, and when the weather gets nicer, with these videos getting several thousand hits, each year there’s going to be an incident.” In December of last year, a man fell to his death from the top of the 52-story Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown, according to police, who said he was trying to take pictures from a rooftop catwalk. However, the penalties for such trespassing aren’t particularly stiff, especially when a private building has a public lobby. In such cases, defense attorneys can easily argue for a motion to have charges pared down to a simple violation, according to officer Brian Nelson. “Private buildings, even though they’re private, if the public has access to them, their lawyer will claim they have a right to be in a building…which would knock it down to a violation from a misdemeanor,” Nelson said at the meeting. And even if prosecutors were able to make a misdemeanor charge stick, judges usually avoid handing out the maximum 90-day sentence to first-time offenders in favor of an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, or ACD, which essentially lets the culprit avoid

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“Rooftopper” James McNally, aka jamakiss, doesn’t limit his turf to Lower Manhattan — he snapped this selfie atop Midtown’s General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Ave.

jail while doing community service, according to Zachary Johnson, a criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor with the District Attorney’s Office. “For a first offense that would probably be an ACD, which is a six-month stay-out-of-trouble and a few days community service,” said Johnson. McNally certainly isn’t immune to prosecution. On Mon., Mar. 21, the photographer was arraigned in criminal court for reckless endangerment and criminal trespass, in charges stemming from the alleged Pine St. trespass. The adventuresome shutterbug says that management at 70 Pine St. are concerned that shots of his exploits will embolden other thrill seekers to scale the 952-foot tower, but that having him arrested won’t do the trick. “They are concerned about publicity around the building as an [urban exploration] destination, and presumably about me potentially intending to go back there,” McNally said. “However, having me arrested will not get them any closer to their goals for the property’s security or profile.”

Ultimately, community board members walked away with the impression that the police have bigger problems to deal with than Instagramming trespassers, and that it’s up to building owners and their security staff to ward off the illicit photographers. “I think it becomes exceptionally difficult to expect the NYPD to be able to arrest and actually incarcerate these people that are guilty of trespassing,” said CB1 member Paul Hovitz. “There was an announcement that, as a reaction to the subway slashing, they’re now assigning a police officer on every train. So when you consider how thinly spread they’re going to be, what’s the chances of getting a response, even though you want to curb this problem?” For his part, McNally has every intention of continuing to seek the heights — even if it makes landlords queasy. “It’s not something I’m going to stop doing,” he said. You can look for him on Instagram — or maybe just look up.

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Continued from page 7 working alliance that coordinates police, prosecutors and the judicial branch to catch gun criminals, swiftly sentence them, and keep them off the streets. Said Aborn, “New York has the toughest gun laws in the country, but the lax laws in other states allow a steady flow of illegal guns into our city.”

SMART GUNS THROUGH PROCUREMENT: Other than the US Department of Defense, the NYPD is the country’s largest purchaser of weapons. Stringer wants to leverage the city’s buying power to demand gun manufacturers to create a smart gun. “If a gun is stolen from a police officer, and that police officer has a fingerprint lock, that gun could not be used against that officer or someone else,” said Stringer. “We can change the market for smart guns, not just for police, but for everyone.”

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Leah Gunn Barrett, of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, reasoned that strict laws for the auto industry justified the same for those who manufacture and use guns.

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Although the Republicancontrolled NYS Senate failed to pass a law to require locking up firearms when not in use, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence has helped get it passed at the local level. Said Barrett,

the industry’s failure to develop smart weapon technology to the NRA’s ability to dictate gun policy.

This is a ready-to-go technology where the gun’s firing pin punches an etch of information onto the bullet’s shell. “Police collecting shells at a scene will have an access to a gun’s registered owner, resulting in invaluable evidence in court,” said Wright. The law has passed in the State Assembly, and Wright is working to have it pass in the State Senate. Remington Arms Company is threatening to leave New York if it is passed.

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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT New York Notes on Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) An independent voice’s careful observations continue to inspire BY STEPHANIE BUHMAN “Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom; there was no longer the need to compose.” When the revered American abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly died on Dec. 27, 2015 at the age of 92, there was a strong outpouring of sympathy in the international art community. In addition to the many leading newspapers, art magazines and blogs who quickly published long obituaries or tributes, social media was rich in passionate proclamations by artists, citing Kelly’s crucial impact. For decades, he had not only been one of the most influential artists of the post-War era, but also one whose quality of innovation was sustained and repeatedly asserted in his more than six-decades-spanning career. Though best known for his abstract, hard-edged compositions, which often saw him linked to the Minimalist movement of the 1960s, Kelly preserved an independent voice throughout his career. In fact, one of his most widely admired bodies of work allows for overt references, featuring exquisite outline drawings of leaves and plant fragments. His artistic heritage was steeped in the European avant-garde. Matisse, early Kandinsky, and Léger impacted his sense and obvious joy of color — while two of his favorite artists, Brancusi and Mondrian, sparked his interest in reducing shapes to their simplest forms. In fact, all of Kelly’s works were derived from careful observations of the world around him. Chance compositions created by nature or architecture through the interplay of light and shadow were always at the root of his vocabulary, no matter how seemingly abstract. In that sense, the core of Kelly’s work

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Ellsworth Kelly: “Orange Red Relief, 1959” (Oil on canvas, two joined panels; 60 x 60 inches [152.4 x 152.4 cm], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, Gift of the artist, 1996, 96.4511).

is distillation, stripping the observed subjects to bones made of pure color and form. When asking several New Yorkbased contemporary artists about what they particularly admired in Kelly, I quickly received various detailed responses. “When I came to New York in 1982, I was an innocent plein-air landscape painter from California,” the abstract artist Leslie Wayne remembered. “I was determined to leave that all behind and explore a brave new world of abstraction. One day I was at MoMA and saw Kelly’s ‘Study for Rebound’ (1955) and it was like a ‘eureka’ moment. I immediately went back to the studio and made a series of paintings based on those two biomorphic shapes. Kelly’s work gave me a way to enter a language I hadn’t yet made

my own, and because of that, he has always held an important place in my heart for his early gift of influence.” Jennifer Riley, who has titled several of her works “According to EK” as an homage to Kelly’s “Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance” paintings, stated: “I was initially attracted to Kelly’s brilliant colors and bold sophisticated forms. I found myself, later on, seeing, making, and representing my own reality in a subjective, abstracted way. I have Ellsworth Kelly to thank. I think he gave many of us permission.” Remembering a specific exhibition of Kelly’s plant drawings at the Metropolitan Museum in 2012, artist Kim Uchiyama added: “I [had] two experiences with this work. First, I was really taken by their strength of line and overall design while remain-

ing absolutely delicate and conveying a sense of fluid, organic abstraction. Second, many of the drawings were done in black and white, yet the form clearly came out of feeling, color, weight, and shape. Both of these experiences still resonate with me and give me a lot to think about.” To Nick Lamia, it is “the incredible richness Kelly was able to conjure using such efficient means” that stands out. “He was like a chef who could create entire feasts with just two or three ingredients. Whether it was large abstract paintings, contour drawings of plants or sculpture, he consistently created engaging and inspiring imagery using just a few elements.” Kelly’s presence in New York is especially strong due to his long history with both the city and state. Born in Newburgh, New York, he first studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (1941-43), before serving in the military (1943-1945) and joining the Allied Forces in France. After pursuing an arts education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1946-1948) and six subsequent years in Paris on the GI Bill, he returned to the United States in 1954 — for good. By the time he settled in New York, first in a studio apartment on Broad St., and finally on Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan, he had already made acquaintances with Brancusi, Arp, Miró, Cage and Cunningham (in Europe). Now, his neighbors included Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin and James Rosenquist, among others. His first New York solo show soon followed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1956, and three years later he was included in the landmark exhibition “Sixteen Americans” at the Museum of Modern Art. Though Kelly moved out of Manhattan in 1970, three years before his retrospective at MoMA, he remained in New York

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‘Belong’ is an Intimate Portrait of an Intuitive Outsider New doc sheds light on iconoclastic director

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Chantal Akerman, seen here in New York, was nomadic, also living in Paris and Brussels.

BY SEAN EGAN Although she never achieved name recognition among mainstream audiences, Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) cuts a fascinating figure worthy of both study and praise — and leaves a body of work that will endure. Over the course of her decades-spanning career, the prolific Belgian filmmaker produced dozens of features, shorts, and documentaries, often pushing the boundaries of cinematic form and content (including feminist and LGBT themes well ahead of their time). Now, the iconoclastic director, who committed suicide in October of last year, is getting her due in the form of “I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman,” a new look at her life and work. “The idea of a documentary came to me for the first time in 2010 when preparing ‘Almayer’s Folly’ [Akerman’s 2011 film],” says Marianne Lambert, the documentary’s director and co-writer. “I was production manager and Chantal and I went more than once to Cambodia for location research. During .com

these trips I got to know Chantal better, and I realized she was rather different from what people might think of her. This was the starting point of the documentary.” The film communicates this insight through intimate conversations with Akerman, cross-cut with well-chosen clips from her expansive body of work. The viewer is treated to hearing about Akerman’s close relationship with her mother (a survivor of Auschwitz), stories of the young filmmaker’s struggles for her art (whose hustle should inspire modern low-budget directors), and her theories on filmmaking. The cumulative effect helps bring an artist, whose work is often heady, down to a wonderfully relatable human scale. “The moments I shared with Chantal were always precious, even when they were common,” notes Lambert. Keeping in step with the intimacy of the film, it was shot, for the most part, in Akerman’s home and the surrounding area. While that may not seem to be a particularly difficult shoot, things became a little more complicated, as

Akerman had ties all over — from New York, to Paris, to Brussels — a fact cleverly referenced in the film’s title. “We started in April 2014 in Israel, then we went to New York for five days in September, and ended in Brussels and Paris in November 2014 for three days. I knew I wanted to shoot in places or countries that mattered for Chantal. The choice of these places came very naturally,” Lambert describes of the globetrotting shooting process. “After shooting in Israel I started working with Marc de Coster, the editor, in order to structure the material we had brought back,” she continues. “It was really during the editing that the film started taking shape and revealed itself with, as far as I was concerned, terrible moments of doubt,” she says. “I would say that it confirmed my opinion that you should follow your instinct and go for it.” Further helping to give the documentary its structure is the examination of Akerman through an outside perspective, be it through revealing discussions with her longtime editor, Claire Atherton, who speaks on her work ethic,

or American director Gus Van Sant, who talks about how her films influenced his directorial style (particularly with the 2005 film “Last Days,” a speculative look at events leading up to the suicide of Kurt Cobain). The documentary seems to already have had something of an effect on audiences unfamiliar with Akerman. “When ‘I Don’t Belong Anywhere’ was shown for the first time at the Locarno [International Film Festival, at the] beginning of August 2015, a group of youngsters, girls and boys, came to see me after the screening,” Lambert recalls. “They came up to me and said, ‘Thank you. We didn’t know Chantal Akerman…your film made us feel like watching her films.’ ” If other viewers are inspired in a similar way by Lambert’s film, they happen to be in luck: Coinciding with the release of “I Don’t Belong Anywhere,” Film Forum will be running a new restoration of “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels,” Akerman’s 1975

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Sharp Programming Brings Chantal Akerman Into Focus Continued from page 19 masterpiece (starting Apr. 1). The film is a hypnotizing and singular portrait of a specific kind of woman, which uses its epic running length (201 minutes) to follow the distinctive routine of a French single mother (cooking, cleaning, etc.), and watch her eventually begin to unravel/rebel against the monotonous structure of her life. For those looking to dive even deeper into Akerman’s filmography, BAMcinématek in Brooklyn is also getting in on the Akerman celebration. Her final work, 2015’s “No Home Movie” (whose editing process is seen in Lambert’s doc), will begin its theatrical run on Apr. 1, as a way to kick off a career-spanning 29-film retrospective of her work. This is good news for both new converts, as well as already devoted fans like Lambert, who has too many favorite films to count. “I think the first film I saw was [1977’s] ‘News From Home.’ And I am still particularly fond of it. However there are other films I admire and/

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Chantal Akerman (right) and editor Claire Atherton (left) work on shaping “No Home Movie,” Akerman’s final film.

or appreciate: ‘Jeanne Dielman…,’ of course, ‘D’Est’ or ‘Sud,’ ‘Les RendezVous d’Anna,’ ” she lists. “Chantal was a free woman, intuitive and honest. I think her films bear these qualities.” While her films speak for them-

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selves, and for her, with “I Don’t Belong Anywhere,” Lambert has provided audiences with a valuable document of an artist’s self-examination — revealing that her personal story is just as fascinating as any she chose to tell through her work. For Lambert, who describes a goal of the film as “simply [evoking] the feeling of having met someone and wanting to get to know her better,” it’s been heartening to see positive reactions to her smallscale documentary of a major figure. “A very young woman came up to me and said, ‘In fact, when you see the life journey of such a woman…you realize that anything is possible,’” she describes of an encounter after a screening. “Chantal was a pioneer, an innovator

who wrote her own language. And that is very inspiring.” “I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman.” runs Mar. 30–Apr. 5 at Film Forum (209 W. Houston St., btw. Varick St. & Sixth Ave.). Free tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis, day of show only. Daily screenings at 1, 2:40, 4:20, 6:10, 7:50 & 9:30 p.m. Call 212-7278110 or visit filmforum.org. The “Chantal Akerman: Images Between the Images” retrospective runs Apr. 1–May 1 at BAMcinématek (30 Lafayette Ave., btw. Ashton Pl. & St. Felix St.). Call 718-636-4100 or visit bam.org/BAMcinematek.

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Chantal Akerman, seen here sitting on a striking installation in Israel. .com

Ellsworth Kelly (1923‑2015): “Atlantic” (1956).

Ellsworth Kelly: “Barn, Southampton” (1968, Gelatin silver print, 8 1/2 x 13 inches, 22 x 33 cm).

Major Museums Keep Ellsworth Kelly’s Legacy Alive Continued from page 18 State. He set up a studio in Chatham and a home in nearby Spencertown, where he lived and worked until his death. Fortunately, in New York, Kelly’s work can be sought out at any time. It can be found in the permanent collections of all of the city’s leading art museums. In addition, Matthew Marks Gallery, which has exhibited Kelly’s work since the early 1990s, is currently hosting a project that should not be missed. The Museum of Modern Art lists no less than 235 works by Kelly online, including many that are not on display, such as the exquisite “Brushstrokes Cut into Forty-Nine Squares and Arranged by Chance” (1951), a work made of cut-andpasted ink drawings. Currently on display in the atrium, however, is the large-scale “Three Panels: Orange, Dark Gray, Green” (1986). In this triptych, three shaped canvases engage in a well-choreographed dance of highly saturated monochromatic color and geometric shapes. The irregular spacing of the triangular and trapezoidal forms, as well as the interplay of curved and straight edges create both a dynamic rhythm and perfect balance. Here, the wall itself begins to serve as the artist’s canvas, while the forms of the paintings appear as gestural marks on it, .com

blurring the divide between painting and sculpture. At 11 W. 53rd St. (btw. Fifth & Sixth Aves.). Visit moma.org or call 212-708-9400. Though the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum devotes most of its exhibition space to temporary special exhibitions rather than its vast permanent collection, it owns several works by the artist. One of the highlights is the square “Orange Red Relief” (1959), which is made of two joined, side-by-side panels of unequal depth. It is a terrific example of the artist’s monochrome paintings, which he began in the early 1950s. Again, it is color, not gesture, that defines the work and provides it with a distinct sculptural presence. At 1071 Fifth Ave. (at E. 89th St.). Visit guggenheim.org or call 212-423-3500. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kelly’s “Spectrum V” (1969) consists of 13 panels, each measuring about 84 x 34 inches. Here, Kelly revels fully in a luminous palette that is worlds apart from the moodier shades preferred by the Abstract Expressionists two decades earlier. As he explained in a 2013 interview with Agnes Gund conducted for the Museum of Modern Art, in this work he reconfigured and recontextualized the sequence of colors found in a rainbow. However, in this case, yellow, which is usually at a rainbow’s center, can be found on the outside; we are moving from light to dark

to light. While each panel exudes a totemic presence, grouped together they transform into a true environment, absorbing the viewer’s attention visually, as well as physically. At 1000 Fifth Ave. (at E. 82nd St.). Visit metmuseum.org or call 212535-7710. The Whitney Museum of American Art also owns many works by Kelly, including the stunning “Atlantic” (1956). Measuring more than nine feet wide, it is the largest of the artist’s black-and-white canvases of the late 1950s. It marks the ambitious culmination of many studies and several smaller paintings of the same compositional theme. The latter was inspired by shadows cast across the pages of a book, which Kelly observed while reading on a bus. The diptych structure of “Atlantic” reflects the facing pages of the book. However, as if to turn a spotlight onto the shape that caught his attention, Kelly chose to reverse the light: Now the former shadow appears white, accentuated by the darkness of its surroundings. At 99 Gansevoort St. (btw. 10th Ave. & Washington St.). Visit whitney.org or call 212-570-3600. Currently, Matthew Marks Gallery is hosting a particularly interesting and unusual Kelly exhibition. Over 40 of his gelatin silver print photographs are on display, marking the first exhibition of its kind. The fact that Kelly finished

Ellsworth Kelly: “Garage, Hudson” (1977, Gelatin silver print, 12 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 32 x 22 cm).

preparing the prints and planned the exhibition shortly before his death makes this show especially enticing. Kelly started taking photographs with a borrowed Leica in the 1950s. Because he used them to make notations of things he saw and subjects to draw, these photographs not only make for fascinating works of art, but aid in shedding further light onto his unique vision. In contrast to his sketches and collages, these photographs never served as preparatory studies for his paintings or sculptures. What they do capture is Kelly’s unique eye for the compositional possibilities of everyday details. “Ellsworth Kelly Photographs” is on view through Apr. 30, at Matthew Marks Gallery (523 W. 24th St., btw 10th & 11th Aves.). Visit matthewmarks.com or call 212-243-0200. March 24 - 30, 2016

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