Arts
Queens Close Up
A half century of immigration has continuously layered new urban forms on an otherwise unremarkable landscape.
Entry Level
Theaters and concert halls are redesigning their interiors to entice new audiences and shore up revenue. Can performance spaces elevate everyday life, too?
Painter of Modern Life
The past and the present, the factual and the virtual, the foreign and the personal, are all layered in a New York portrait painted from a D-train dérive.
Eclipsed on the Concourse
The removal of a public art installation by Maya Lin to make way for a better, brighter Penn Station portends a growing denial of the precarity of human passage through time and space.
Community House is There for You
After half a century as a sanctuary for Indigenous people in New York City, the American Indian Community House still seeks a permanent home.
21st Century Monument
Where a controversial sculpture stood, a monument to Harriet Tubman offers a new narrative and new directions for creating sites of collective memory.
God's Garage
It's complicated inside New York City's 99 cent stores, where creativity and exploitation coexist.
Landscape Orientation
An artist makes her books by walking. Their pages unfold in ways as unusual and idiosyncratic as the city itself.
Home Schooling
For fifteen years and counting at a free people's urbanism school in Orange, New Jersey, the city itself is a university, and a university is an advocate for community repair.
Getting Into It
For artists and audiences with disabilities, traditional theater spaces can present significant barriers. A new production by Ryan Haddad seeks to build access into the show’s design.