Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square.
“I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself,” says Colombo, who first published his drawings in The New [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘New York’
May 26, 2009
Finger Painting
May 14, 2009
Avedon Fashion
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post-World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer. Anticipating many of the cultural cross-fertilizations that have occurred between high art, commercial art, fashion, advertising, and pop culture in the last twenty years, he created spirited, imaginative photographs that showed fashion and the [...]
April 22, 2009
In The Air
The first celebration of Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, was a raucously exuberant affair. In New York, Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic. People picnicked on the sidewalk; dead fish were dragged through midtown; and Governor Nelson Rockefeller rode a bicycle across Prospect Park. Students in Richmond, Virginia, handed out bags of dirt (to [...]
February 6, 2009
I LEGO N.Y.
It’s amazing what comes of a creative mind, random resources, and a slight nostalgia for the world’s greatest city.
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The New York Times / Abstract City / Published: February 2, 2009
July 2, 2008
New York City
I’m so grateful for reliable public transportation, street food, outdoor art, and rooftop soirées, for free entertainment, farmers markets, and summers full of music and movies.
