Arts
Local Frequencies
An audio archivist documents the evolution of pirate radio in Brooklyn and its place in the cultural landscapes of the borough's immigrant communities.
Call for Applications: New City Critics
A fellowship program to empower new, fearless, and diverse voices to challenge the ways we understand, design, and develop our cities.
Unlikely Attractions
In works from digital dérives to a floating opera, artists bring new perspectives to New York City's most damaged environments.
Support New City Critics!
Announcing the launch of a campaign to create a new fellowship program empowering fearless and diverse voices to challenge the ways we design, plan, and develop our cities.
The Struggle is Real Estate
In Berlin’s city center, an activist-led redevelopment scheme is setting a bold example for rescuing financially valuable public land from privatization and gentrification.
Broom Swept
An artist stalks the storefront ruins of Lower Manhattan, documenting the material traces of real estate's perpetual churn.
A Monumental Shift
A group of artists and creative technologists is wielding augmented reality to insert heroic women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ icons into an uneven landscape of public memory.
Introducing Memory Loss
Our new mini-series highlights a geography of memory across the city, focusing on the everyday memorial.
Behind the Mask
Two scholars navigate the myths and abstractions attached to marginalized urban neighborhoods, bridging the distance between narratives imposed from outside and residents' experiences and spatial practices.
Poetry for the People, in Public Spaces
During a year of confinement and circumscription, the people behind Queensbound have been working to keep the borough connected through site-specific poetry.