Jorge Colombo sketches a parking lot at night, 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.
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
Notes on Hollywood
An Oscar-Night Diary: The Kenergy Was Palpable
“Barbie” received only one award, but the ceremony—and even the after-parties—brimmed with a simple ebullience.
By Michael Schulman
The New Yorker Documentary
For Black Women, Embracing Natural Hair Is About More Than Style
Lindsay Opoku-Acheampong’s film “Textures” follows three women through the private and meaningful rituals of caring for their hair.
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