Opinion: NYC’s lines aren’t worth a surveillance network
Damn Lines’ strategy of recording people without their consent does not solve the city’s hour-long line epidemic.
5 books we read when we’re homesick
If you’re sticking around in the city for the summer, these novels are the next best option to experience home.
Review: ‘Raphael: Sublime Poetry’ reminds that simplicity is the most radical art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s latest exhibition captures the Italian artist’s restless, revolutionary energy.
The case against the Instagrammable museum
It’s bad enough that visitors are looking at art through their phone cameras — and even worse that museums capitalize on it.
Review: ‘Act Black’ unmasks the high stakes of Black stardom
From minstrelsy to art deco grandeur, Poster House’s new exhibition recovers the visual history of Black performers fighting for their own image.
4 performative books that are actually worth the read
Our staff reflects on the stories that feed both our imaginary fans and our minds.
Opinion: Caste discrimination is still not prohibited at NYU
By not creating explicit protections against caste discrimination, NYU is diluting its meaning and enforceability.
Review: ‘Handle With Care’ reframes art as ecological inquiry
On view at NYU’s Grey Art Museum, a multimedia artist’s material experiments double as meditations on waste and circulation.
Q&A: What does it take to fit in America today?
WSN spoke to actors from the new body horror film ‘Slanted’ about pushing the idea of assimilation to an unsettling extreme.
Q&A: Jordan E. Cooper on the future of Black theater
The Tony-nominated playwright sat down with WSN to discuss his new Off-Broadway play, “Oh Happy Day!”
