Jolie Ruben

A look back at the year’s signature performers, including Zendaya, Nicole Kidman, Paul Mescal, Post Malone, Cynthia Erivo, Cindy Sherman and many more.

Here are four Instagram accounts to make you stop and look.

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.

Fun can take many forms. An end-of-day ice cream ritual. Caring for rescued chickens. A bubble bath for an inanimate friend. Three photographers show us what a good time means to them now.

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 scenes beyond the stage in the theater district. Here’s what they saw.