Opening Reception: Manhattan Sunday

Hosted By: Bertha Vanayshun

Music By: DJ Peter Napoli

Manhattan Sunday is part homage to a slice of New York nightlife, and part celebration of New York as palimpsest an evolving form onto which millions of people have and continue to project their ideal selves and ideal lives.

In the essay that accompanies his photographs, Richard Renaldi describes his experiences as a young man in the late 1980s who had recently embraced his gay identity, and of finding a home in the mystery and abandonment of the club, the nightscape, and then finally daybreak, each offering a transformation of Manhattan from the known world into a dreamscape of characters acting out their fantasies on a grand stage.

Renaldi’s accompanying book, Manhattan Sunday, will be available for purchase at The Bureau Bookstore in Room 210 of The Center.