Natalie Meade

The satire takes aim not only at New Yorkers’ special relationship to the housing market but also at influencer culture: the now familiar mode of using social media to commodify the intimate details of one’s life for clout or ad dollars. We never learn how many followers the Artist has, but with her stylish self-possession and effortless way of packaging her experience—“I really couldn’t imagine going anywhere else, you know? I needed to be here, you know, with, like, people like me,” she tells…