Jolie Ruben

I’m a photo editor on the Culture desk. Here are five things I’ve been watching, reading and listening to.

Celebrities, artists, musicians and actors at home, outdoors and in lockdown: The stories behind the pictures that defined our year.

New York City may be emptier than normal, but art is still around us. Four photographers who find inspiration in the streets went in search of candid moments and images that struck them — impressionistically, conceptually or naturally — as art.

TV brings us comfort. TV gives us information. TV is relentless. The coronavirus lockdown has changed the way we absorb the glow of screens. Three photographers captured viewers at home and in public, relaxed and on edge, together and alone.

With large parts of our lives on pause, our relationship to motion, and the world outside of our homes, has been profoundly altered. We asked three photographers to explore movement in their everyday environments.

Before coronavirus concerns closed down many cultural institutions, four photographers explored how people in New York look at, interact with and sometimes ignore art in the city.

We sent four photographers to capture New York’s soundscape in images. Here’s what they saw (and heard).

We sent four photographers to capture scenes beyond the stage in the theater district. Here’s what they saw.

Kanye West. Philip Roth. Opera. Jazz. Salsa. King Kong. Tonya Harding. We can go on, but why don’t you see for yourself.

A photographer’s look behind the shiny facade of an art extravaganza.