That time the Met passed on a $75 Arbus photo

The photography of Diane Arbus always draws crowds, and a new show of her works entitled In the Park at Lvy Gorvy gallery on Madison Avenue (until 24 June) is no exception. Arbus took all of the images in Central Park and Washington Square Park, capturing the hard core lesbians and winos, as she described them, who roamed Manhattans green spaces in the 1960s. The photographer Neil Selkirkthe only person authorised to make posthumous prints of her workprovided plenty of pithy insights at the priv