' To walk down Fifth Avenue is to feel the city as sensation, but it has nothing to do with the city as an intelligible structure. And the other famous vantage points are all moving, changing spectacles. The city is a film, a sequence of moving pictures.'
Denis Donoghue. Professor of Modern English and American Literature at University College, Dublin, is teaching during the current academic year at New York University. In this talk he reflects on attitudes to the arts in New York.
