“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
An online viewing room
“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 stereoscopic anthology
An exhibition catalogue
An article about the MTA map
An article seen through windows
A set of animated icons
A website about medieval animal trials
“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 video featuring Taylor Swift
Interviews with artists who do it for the love of it
“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 series of digital billboards
“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
“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 newspaper fold
A series of artist interviews
A website with the color eigengrau
An video with animated emojis
A video in the style of a ransom note
“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
A magazine about hitchhiking
A magazine in the style of a manila folder
“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 video in the style of a tarot deck
“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
“When his family made fun of him for being lost in books, he would read in the closet.”
An obituary
A text about fostering cats
An article with a dancing lobster
“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
A website about climate crisis
An artist book
A video featuring FKA twigs
“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 painting show
A website that is also a rebus
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about collecting images
“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 book that spans the life of a pencil
“Browsing the web, what you see can be described as a series of containers, some seen and some unseen.”
A class assignment about containers
“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
“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
A circular music player
A website with a sunset cam
“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 series of one minute videos
An artist book
@nytimes Instagram
Editorial illustrations
Teaching sites made with google docs
A website that uncovers alt-text
A website made of stairs
A website with an auto-generated pattern
A video in the stye of a comic strip
“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
Editorial illustrations
“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
“One publishes to find comrades.”
A class assignment about publishing
“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