The entries were originally distributed one at a time daily in the lobby of the Torrance Museum of Art. We sent PDFs to our subscribers and to the staff at the museum as we went.
The entries were originally distributed one at a time daily in the lobby of the Torrance Museum of Art. We sent PDFs to our subscribers and to the staff at the museum as we went.
An artist book
“The parade offers a glimpse at what the neighborhood could be: a place where people are free to be themselves and celebrate who we are. A place where we can be familiar. A place where we can move and breathe.”
An article about a fish parade
“When all the other mothers wore heels, stockings and hair spray, Esther would come to events with no stockings, no hairspray and no heels.”
An obituary
“Vladia Brooks kneads bread in the same spot that her father, Vladimir Nevl, kneaded bread for almost 50 years.”
An article about a Czech family restaurant
“The ghost of Annie’s brother was said to go into the pantry for a drink every night at 10 o’ clock.”
An article about a haunted house
“A toxic mix of sewage, trash, urban runoff, and chemical waste released indiscriminately by the factories located along the banks of the Bronx River has wreaked havoc on its ecology for over a century.”
All about a map
A newspaper fold
A website made of stairs
“It’s illustrated in a topographic style, with the region seen from above and stretching out to the horizon. The artist even included the sky. . . that’s nice.”
A note from the editors about making a map of New York City
“Telling time, taking time, keeping time, time out, time to kill, time is money, time is on my side, race against the clock, ahead of time, a stitch in time, a hard time, buy time, big-time, and so on.”
A class assignment about time
A video in the style of a tarot deck
An article about the MTA map
An article seen through windows
An exhibition catalogue
A website that uncovers alt-text
A website that is also a rebus
A website with a sunset cam
A set of animated icons
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
Editorial illustrations
“The Women’s Mountain Bike and Tea Society wants to rub out the image of mountain biking as an extreme sport.”
An article about a feminist bike collective
Teaching sites made with google docs
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
A painting show
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
A stereoscopic anthology
“Over two decades of twists and turns and promises unmet, one journalist has been keeping a close eye on the saga of Atlantic Yards.”
An article about a development nightmare
A series of artist interviews
A website about climate crisis
A video featuring FKA twigs
An video with animated emojis
A series of one minute videos
Editorial illustrations
“As tides and storms bring big changes to the cityscape, what landmass is most likely to become New York's next island?”
An article about New Yorks next island
“In the Bronx, a parks steward and activist takes on the campaign of a lifetime.”
An article about a campaign to cap the Cross Bronx Expressway
A text about fostering cats
A circular music player
An online viewing room
An article with a dancing lobster
A website with the color eigengrau
A series of digital billboards
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
A book that spans the life of a pencil
@nytimes Instagram
“The original meaning of the word ‘comprehension’ is ‘to grasp, to seize something with the hands and hold it tight...’”
A class assignment about hands
A video in the style of a ransom note
“The litter box may have brought us physically closer to our feline companions, but that doesn’t mean we understand them any better than when they lived mostly outdoors.”
An essay about cat litter
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
A video in the stye of a comic strip
An artist book
“Forty years after its inauguration, there is still much to learn from a mold-breaking NYC playground that provided space for disabled kids to play alongside their non-disabled peers.
An essay about playgrounds
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
A magazine about hitchhiking
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
A video featuring Taylor Swift
“Parasite. noun. par·a·site ˈpar-ə-ˌsīt. : an organism living in, with, or on another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.“
A class assignment about web extensions
A website about medieval animal trials
A video made of cartoon screenshots
A website with an auto-generated pattern