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.
“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
“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
An exhibition catalogue
“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
An artist book
An article seen through windows
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
A series of one minute videos
“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 newspaper fold
A website that is also a rebus
“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
An article about the MTA map
A website that uncovers alt-text
A set of animated icons
A book that spans the life of a pencil
A magazine about hitchhiking
A website about climate crisis
A website made of stairs
“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
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
A text about fostering cats
An video with animated emojis
A website about medieval animal trials
An article with a dancing lobster
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
A video in the style of a ransom note
“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
“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
“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
Editorial illustrations
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
A website with a sunset cam
A video in the style of a tarot deck
“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 video made of cartoon screenshots
“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
A video featuring FKA twigs
A painting show
A series of digital billboards
A video featuring Taylor Swift
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
“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
“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
A series of artist interviews
“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
Teaching sites made with google docs
“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
An artist book
A video in the stye of a comic strip
“My grandmother, who is a potter, always insisted that she makes ceramic vessels, not art.”
A personal essay
“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 stereoscopic anthology
Editorial illustrations
A circular music player
@nytimes Instagram
“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 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
An online viewing room
A website with an auto-generated pattern
A website with the color eigengrau