Jorge Colombo sketches a cinema ticket booth, using Brushes, an application for the iPhone.
Jorge Colombo is an illustrator, photographer, and graphic designer, and the author of “New York: Finger Paintings by Jorge Colombo.”
Goings On
What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks.
The Front Row
The Best Bio-Pics Ever Made
The genre presents very particular artistic challenges, but here are thirty-three films that transcend them.
By Richard Brody
The Art World
The Whitney Biennial’s Taste for Flesh
The long-running survey has its usual missteps, but several works shine with wit and insight about the human body.
By Jackson Arn
Postscript
Iris Apfel Wore Fame Well
Apfel pursued the driving creative project of her life—getting dressed, dazzlingly—for eight decades without any promise of greater glory. How could she ever have seen it coming?
By Rachel Syme
Former Landmarks Dept.
Visiting Places That No Longer Exist
The artist Ellen Harvey takes a tour of disappeared New York City landmarks that appear in her project “The Disappointed Tourist.”
By David Owen