Jacob A. Riis left Denmark for New York in 1870 and here, as a muckraking journalist and documentary photographer, became one of America’s leading advocate for the urban poor. curates an exhibition of Riis’ photographic work, co-produced by the Library of Congress, at the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. Daily, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., through Mar. 20, 2016. Admission is $14; $10 for students & seniors; free for those under 20 at mcny.org. On Nov. 16, 6:30 p.m., Yochelson is joined by Ambassador Anne Dorte Riggelsen, consul general of Denmark in New York, and Dr. Thor J. Mednick, a University of Toledo art history professor and expert on Vilhelm Hammershøi. A Riis contemporary, Hammershøi was a Copenhagen-based aesthete whose mysterious paintings of bourgeois domestic interiors suggested the psychological experience of modern life. The three discuss the two radically different Danish responses to understanding modernity at the turn of the 20th century.
