\u201cAnother New York\u201d is an ArtBridge exhibition of 56 photographs mounted outside the Barclays Center in what may be a Sisyphean mission: to convey the inner rhythm of Brooklyn to pedestrians whose senses are already overloaded with that beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe looked for those everyday moments that you see,\u201d said the artist Mickalene Thomas, 42, one of the show\u2019s curators, who has lived in Brooklyn since 1995. \u201cThese moments are not necessarily iconic identifiers of Brooklyn, but they\u2019re poetic signifiers that illustrate the subtlety of Brooklyn.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dAs captured by 15 photographers, it is a Brooklyn unlike the one seen in Ms. Thomas\u2019s mural inside the arena, which shows the Brooklyn Bridge and other landmarks. The images, mounted on plywood construction barriers along Dean Street, are quiet and still in a way that Brooklyn rarely is. The most striking, of a young couple nearly eclipsed by foliage in Prospect Park, lends a bucolic dissonance to the music of Flatbush Avenue.\u201cI hope that people can walk by on the day-to-day, and maybe there\u2019s an image that will inspire them or make them smile \u2014 \u2018Oh, yeah, I remember that area\u2019 \u2014 like a participant in a call and response,\u201d Ms. Thomas said.On Monday morning, none of the few passers-by stopped to consider the art. It was too hot, the street was too noisy. But by night the streets are filled with a different crowd, and the next night with another still. This is the rhythm of this stretch of development-driven Brooklyn, to which \u201cAnother New York\u201d adds an elusive backbeat.- John LelandMatthew Schenning, Surfers Wading Out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n