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New City Critics

Funeral for Fish

At one of the country’s largest food distribution hubs, a logistical choreography keeps our fish fresh.

New City Critics

A Resurrection

Behind the scenes of a DIY stalwart’s rebuild as it returns after ten years to a changed LES, and world.

The Tempest

As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.

New City Critics

The Invisible Arch

Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.

The World is About to Turn

In the weekly Jericho Walk, New Sanctuary Coalition and allies confront a site of darkness and fear for many immigrants, and make sure that friends are not alone in their journey.

Seneca Village, Envisioned

No visual records remained after a thriving, majority Black village was cleared to make way for Central Park. A multidisciplinary team is using historical research, digital modeling, and informed speculation to return the community to our collective imagination.

This Is a Rehearsal

With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, a playwright considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?

New City Critics

No Mannequins

The new Telfar store is an event space. The event is we're alive and we did this shit.

New City Critics

A Living Painting

Large-scale public sculptures by Scott Burton have traveled from a corporate lobby to a Queens art center, but they are still in search of a forever home. Can their meanings endure in a new frame?

New City Critics

Feral Monument

Beloved for their innocence and feared as vectors of disease, pigeons are a divisive and constant presence in New York City. A monumental statue atop the High Line urges us to consider how our feral friends (or foes) are in fact just like us.