Arts

An artist and a historian talk trees: What they mean, and what it takes to get city-dwellers to see them clearly.

Over a decade in his Queens neighborhood, a photographer sees constant change.

With simple phrases beamed in light, the Illuminator Collective appropriates buildings' exteriors to reveal the forces at work inside.

When safe space is hard to find, art and events collective Papi Juice gives queer and trans people of color a home — and a soundtrack — for the night.

In the middle of a paved Midtown park, tunnel air whirs through 46 huge fans.

A new Monument to Gay and Transgender People merges strength and fragility, as well as communion and isolation, by the banks of the Hudson River.

In West Harlem, a wastewater treatment plants hides beneath a 28-acre state park.

The stylized figures of Keith Haring have spread across the world, but his radical vision hasn’t always travelled with them.

In Long Island City, stunted electrical poles mark some of the city's most contested real estate.

We seek a writer to explore and interpret the contemporary urban landscape where highways meet gas wells, herons, and kayakers.