Anyone familiar with Metrotwin will know we started life as a home for lists of the very best on offer, here and now, in both New York and London.  For good measure, we ´twin´ venues in both cities whenever and wherever possible.  I guess we thought all this would be of most interest to those travelling to either city, but we wanted our recommendations to be a mix of the best of the best and the unusual – places you wouldn´t find if you just put London or NYC into Google and hit ´I Feel Lucky´.  So maybe it shouldn´t be a surprise that a bunch of us have found the site just as useful if you´re someone living and working in either city.  Perhaps you´ve got visitors in town, or just fancy jumping up off the sofa one weekend and exploring what´s happening out there, just beyond your doorstep.

If you´re in that frame of mind, here are a couple of great shows to visit.  Both these exhibitions are wonderful in their own right, in very different ways.  Of course, if you´re visiting from out of town, there´s nothing to stop you going too.  Grab a map and hit the subway or tube.

First up, Saul Steinberg at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich, London. A regular contributor to The New Yorker last century, Steinberg´s satirical, whimsical illustration – the full range of which is on show here – seems ahead of its time (David Shrigley surely owes just a little to Steinberg). The distorted, cosmopolitan maps of the world he created, where 5th Avenue, say, sits within throwing distance of Mayfair are of course what attracted Metrotwin´s particular interest. The exhibition is on until February 15th, directions are here.

And on the other side of the pond, if you haven´t got to this one already, go now – the wonderful William Eggleston exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Madison Avenue.  Plenty has been said about Eggleston, but his ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, his use of colour photography when the establishment obsessed over black & white, the way he captured the apparently inconsequential flotsam and jetsam of suburban America….these are reasons enough to see this before the show closes on January 25th.  I leave you with a particular favourite – the glamour of air travel captured in a single, perfect shot.

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