Cover Story: Christoph Niemann’s Rainy Day

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“When I arrived in New York for the first time, it was pouring,” the German artist Christoph Niemann says. “Maybe that’s why, to my mind, there’s no place on earth where being stuck in traffic on a rainy day is more beautiful.”

Below are two of Niemann’s preliminary sketches, also of rainy-day traffic in New York.