Art
A Beautiful New Look for NYC's Beaches
Pentagram designer Paula Scher has created a beautiful new program of design for NYC's 14 miles of beaches that presents an optimistic, clean, and attractive vision of what urban beaches should be.
New York
News
Lawsuit Accuses the City and Lincoln Center of Privatizing a Public Park
A handful of New York residents and environmental activist groups are suing the City of New York, the Parks Department, and Lincoln Center over the use of Damrosch Park, a 2.44-acre park on the Upper West Side. The lawsuit claims that the city has effectively, but illegally, handed over management o
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Art
Why Won't the MTA Allow This Artist to Make Art? [UPDATE]
One February evening, Brooklyn-based artist Enrico Miguel Thomas carried his drawing board a few paces away from where he had been illustrating from a counter in Grand Central — leaving behind a bag full of markers and a folded-up easel. After a brief moment of gathering the necessary detail on his
Opinion
How Rich Is Your Subway Stop?
The New Yorker has taken the increasing economic segregation of our city and visualized it.
Art
Photographs Turn New York City into a Stage for Humanity
Like so many people who come to New York, part of what attracted me was the spectacle of the city itself. I wanted to wander streets thick with history and creative currents, to watch and become part of the human drama just outside my door. That also describes my experience of Susan Wides’s stunning
Opinion
The Man Who Led 1990s Art Censorship Scandal Is Running for NYC Mayor
The name Joseph J. Lhota may not be a household one (yet), but the current Republican mayoral candidate has done a lot in his time in New York City politics. Art worlders may remember him as the man who led the Giuliani administration's push to bully the Brooklyn Museum into censoring an artwork fro
Art
See the Streets of New York in Slow Motion
It's amazing to watch slow-motion, high-definition video of a bird take flight. The feathers ruffle in succession like a ripple moving across waves, and the wings flap in an exaggerated but seemingly effortless motion. The whole display is fairly awe-inspiring and beautiful — even if the bird in que
Opinion
New York's Outdated Payphones Will Become Sleek, Digital Kiosks
The winners of a city-sponsored contest to redesign New York's payphones have been announced, and it looks like the clunky yet iconic — and these days, often broken — booths of decades past will soon be replaced by slim, digital screens offering wifi, summaries of weather conditions, a chance to pay
Opinion
Imagining the Payphones of the Future
I suspect everyone who's wandered around New York — or any major city, really — has had the experience of walking past a payphone and wondering about its fate. Public phones often strike me as the ultimate objects in transition, relics from a pre-digital age dotting the cityscape. It may be a coinci
Art
The Impossibility of Documenting New York City
Like most people (I assume), I had heard about Humans of New York in passing, with a share on Facebook or a retweet on Twitter, but until recently, I wasn't actually following the blog. Then I found myself looking at a portrait one day — I don't remember which — and being overwhelmed by its simultan
Interview
Occupy Barclays Street Art
Anonymous anti-Barclays street art appears at the newly coined Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center subway stop in Brooklyn.
Opinion
No Comment: The Korean Taco & Basquiat
"The food vendors are like artists" …