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New! Celebrating Berenice Abbott's bday with a fresh POV on NYC.

For some city folk, summer is high time to explore the urban jungle on foot, fire hot pavement and inhumane humidity be damned. For the rest of us, the air-conditioned reprieve of our apartments takes precedent, but Berenice Abbott's city scenes can bring the outside in. Feast your eyes on our fo...

It’s always Xmas in Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s Harlem work-live space.

Plenty of artists cite The Big Apple as a source of inspiration, but for photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel, it’s personal. For the past sixteen years, he’s been photographing the five boroughs and the potpourri of beautiful people who pepper these pavements. Just listen to him talk about how m...

“Eat Fruit, Be Healthy”: snack on this vintage textual treat.

In season right now: delicious vintage art. We’ve already consumed our fair share of summer produce—a metric ton of tart cherries, sweet berries, fuzzy peaches, and Fourth-of-July watermelon—but our new edition is too typographically tasty to resist. Freshly picked by our curatorial team from the...

Summer art haps you oughta hit up

Summer is for freed toes, chilled glasses, aggressive sunscreen application and, it turns out, a whole lotta art-related recreation. Below, preview just a few of the art happenings on our hit list. (And follow us on twitter @20x200 for the as-yet unannounced!) Arty activities are a low-key way to...

Repping rainbow art to ring in a historic Pride weekend

This ain’t your average Pride weekend in NYC. This weekend also marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the whole reason the month of June has the honor of recognizing LGBTQ history and ringing in its future. This is a moment to reflect—on how far we’ve come, and how far we’ve still go...

You are getting verrry sleepy … It’s Brian Kaspr’s dreamy text debut

Consider this our cosign to stay in bed tomorrow. Sure, it’ll be a Wednesday, probably nice out, and maybe there’s that work thing you gotta worry about, but we’ve just released Sleep and we wanna celebrate. Take a personal day, refuse to remove your PJs, and plot out some art space on your walls...

Style + design sleuth Robert Verdi moonlights as an avid art collector.

Truly good taste is like a double rainbow—rare, resplendent, and real fine fodder for a viral video. Add a scorching sense of humor and some renaissance manning to the mix, and you’ve got a recipe for Robert Verdi. (Also try 2 parts tastemaker + 1 part tell-it-like-it-is, shaken over entrepreneur...

OOO art: the beach day editions (almost) as summer vibe-y as vacation

Bring on the beach days, the burnt bums, the cool water, and the piña coladas. If we get to spend even one day sprawled out on the sand with a breezy read in our hands and waves rolling in, the wait will have been worth it. Tomorrow, it’s officially summer. So maybe your calendar is looking a li...