Tag: new york

Colson Whitehead on labels in literature, wearing genre drag, and getting lost in New York.

Should New York compel judges to report problem prosecutors?

Bribes, wires, and little surprise.

Reading Baratunde Thurston’s satirical memoir on public transportation turns into a social experiment.

A look inside the courtroom on the opening day of Floyd v. NYC, the class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy.

Government loans encourage the reconstruction of areas at risk of repeated flooding.

The professor and critic turns to technology explosions past—think typewriters, gramophones, and radios—to map the modern intersections of information and art.

This was Clyde’s third Ramadan, but his first alone.

The director of the Arab Association of New York talks with Meaghan Winter about mosque monitoring, civil liberties, and kids asking ‘why do they hate us?’

After losing his companion Peter Hujar to AIDS, artist and activist David Wojnarowicz attempts to film grief while wrestling with his own mortality.

Still, I started for the parlor. I’d polished my shoes, put gel in my hair: habits my mother had always wanted me to form and I had always resisted. Walking down the street, I felt conspicuous, as though people were sniggering at my gleaming head and feet.

‘Murder is My Business,’ an exhibition of Weegee’s gritty photographs, opens at the International Center for Photography.

Keith Haring—rockstar of the art world, New York City street artist, activist—is no longer a household name. Genevieve Walker reviews the exhibit designed to commemorate his legacy.

Alone together in the metropolis

The filmmaker Tariq Tapa on growing up Jewish and Muslim in New York, saying the unsayable, and the future of horror films.

The photorealist painter on how art collided with his learning disability, his first paintings after paralysis, and why you shouldn’t think he’s an asshole.