Jorge Colombo sketches a girl in her apartment, 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 Art World
Anni Albers Transformed Weaving, Then Left It Behind
Her textiles are quiet revelations, but even her later prints show how restraint can generate ravishing beauty.
By Jackson Arn
The Front Row
“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” Is a Deceptively Plain Masterpiece
Joanna Arnow’s new film mines the comic potential of distance and framing, in an examination of degradations large and small.
By Richard Brody
Fault Lines
What Phones Are Doing to Reading
It’s becoming harder, or at least less common, to read the old-fashioned way. But the new ways of reading are not all bad.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Books
How Stories About Human-Robot Relationships Push Our Buttons
Two new novels, “Annie Bot” and “Loneliness & Company,” reflect anxieties about A.I. coming for our hearts as well as for our jobs.
By Jennifer Wilson