Jill Gill, an artist and lifelong New Yorker, painted NYC streetscapes beginning in the 1950s. Decades later, her grandson visited the same locations she painted to capture how they've changed. Gill ...

Kadir Nelson is a celebrated painter, illustrator, and writer who is widely known for his pieces that draw upon African-American culture and history. Nelson has produced works for the United States ...

Rosemary’s Baby. Little Shop of Horrors. Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad. The Devil Wears Prada. Hair. West Side Story. Toni Morrison’s Jazz. What do these works have in common? They’re ...

Sophie Clarke chats to the Aussie-born artist bringing Belfast’s character to life through murals, maps and her now annual Christmas Market stall ...

Illustrator Julia Wertz has been chronicling the things she loves about New York City—independent bookstores, old buildings, and the progression of her old Greenpoint stomping grounds—for years in ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. “Illustrating was a way for me to get to know Denver, since I was a stranger,” says Krumpholz, who moved from ...

The aptly named City Roads project is simple: Just go to the site, enter the name of your city, and software creates a map that exclusively shows roads. With no text or topography at all, the results ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The site of London’s New River Head in Clerkenwell is suffused with the gentle thrum of machines underground.

The comparison between the human body and a city has been made before, but upon further reflection by one doctor, the human body more closely resembles the relatively modern concept of “smart city,” a ...