Hello City: Urbanity on Paper Opens Tonight

“The city is a fact of nature, like a cave, a run of mackarel, or an ant heap,” wrote Lewis Mumford. “But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within it communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art.” Emphasis on the art, not the mackarel, at New York’s Anna Kustera Gallery, which tonight hosts opening festivities for “Urbanity on Paper,” a group show that takes the city as its subtext.