Jorge Colombo sketches a building advertisement, 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.
Our Local Correspondents
Canoeing in a Superfund Site
Paddling in the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, has inspired one recovering lawyer to write poetry about toxic sludge, floating condoms, and gentrification.
By Eric Lach
Annals of Design
A Dutch Architect’s Vision of Cities That Float on Water
What if building on the water could be safer and sturdier than building on flood-prone land?
By Kyle Chayka
Letter from Montgomery
Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep South
The civil-rights attorney has created a museum, a memorial, and, now, a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade and the cradle of the Confederacy.
By Doreen St. Félix
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