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.
A video featuring Taylor Swift
“The Lower Manhattan skyline is an icon of glass and steel, global wealth and power. But just north of the Brooklyn Bridge, the profile turns to mountains of brick.”
An article about overcladding
A series of artist interviews
“Behind the unassuming and conventional exteriors of public housing project buildings, behind the deferred maintenance and enduring stigma, there are apartment units with unique, enthralling, and expressive interiors.”
An article about a crowdsourced archive of family photos
“The way that elements and parts of a dream connect with each other is a complex problem, yet, like a language, there are rules and frameworks.”
A photo book
“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
“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 website with a sunset cam
An article about the MTA map
Editorial illustrations
“Some of our deepest and most intimate relationships are formed living with other people.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
“Starting with the New York Public Library Picture Collection and Digital Collections, build a collection of images with the theme of your choice.”
A class assignment engaging the NYPL image collection
“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
“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
A circular music player
“Creating a space that appeals to locals and visitors is a balancing act. The New York that exists in the imagination of a tourist isn’t going to be the same as the many New Yorks 8.25 million residents know as their own.”
An article about the redevelopment of Rockefeller Center
A website that is also a rebus
“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
An online viewing room
A video in the stye of a comic strip
A negative clock
“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 video made of cartoon screenshots
A website about climate crisis
“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
An exhibition catalogue
“Advertisements are so prevalent in New York’s urban landscape that they almost disappear from view.”
An exegesis of New York's blank billboards
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
An video with animated emojis
“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 website with the color eigengrau
A newspaper fold
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
“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
“Eighty years ago, the City attempted to counter that exclusivity through a theater guided by a public mission.”
An article about the making of municipal arts center in the 1940s
MFA thesis book
An artist book
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
An artist book
A series of digital billboards
“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
“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
A website about medieval animal trials
“It’s become a ritual of sorts: drafting a list of ingredients, grabbing a canvas bag, driving the vehicle of my body along the same streets there and back, selecting my produce, paying, unloading my goodies, and packing them away at home.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
A website that uncovers alt-text
“Just type the word ‘Chinatown’ into a Google image search and it will return pages of brightly colored Chinatown gates.”
An article about Manhattan’s Chinatown
“It’s the year 2044, and New Yorkers are commemorating the tenth anniversary of the MAGA regime’s fall from national power.”
An installment of NY 2044, a newspaper from the future
“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 keeping time
An article seen through windows
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
“Since acquiring a disability three years ago, I get around the city primarily using Access-A-Ride (AAR), the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s paratransit service.”
An installment in a Romantic Urbanism series
A set of animated icons
A video in the style of a tarot deck
A Site for Sore Eyes
“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
Editorial illustrations
“As an architecture student in the 1990s, I puzzled over my instructors’ and classmates’ reflexive dismissal of suburbs, suburban form, and, by extension, suburbanites.”
An article about suburbia
A magazine about hitchhiking
A book that spans the life of a pencil
“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
“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 video in the style of a ransom note
A series of one minute videos
A video featuring FKA twigs
A text about fostering cats
“Create a microsite around an Earth Month event or event series.“
Class assignment using real-time data
@nytimes Instagram
A painting show
“I have become a hoarder of dreams. Since high school, they’ve slowly piled up. They’re strewn across journals and loose slips of paper, and in the last few years stored on the Cloud, a nice place for dreams.”
A personal essay about grieving and dreaming.
A website with an auto-generated pattern
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
An article with a dancing lobster
“In any case, now is a moment to understand what exactly the city has lost with the closure of Hester Street, as well as how it came to be what it is, drawing out any lessons for others who might aspire to fill in the gap it’s leaving behind.”
An article about an influential nonprofit
A stereoscopic anthology
A website made of stairs
Teaching sites made with google docs