Mariam Aldhahi

Since its founding more than 400 years ago, New York has welcomed dreamers and strivers from all walks of life, drawn to the city’s relentless energy—it truly never sleeps—as well as its unprejudiced embrace. (New Yorkers don’t just tolerate difference; we appreciate the heck out of it.) Its allure remains strong to this day: Between 2010 and 2017, the city’s population jumped by 5.5 percent, an unprecedented rate of growth that’s taken the population to 8.6 million.

SVA’s Steven Heller has helped launch dozens of high-profile design careers. To his protégés, he seems like the ultimate insider?—?but he didn’t start out that way. Steven Heller is sitting in his office at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, sipping iced green tea and editing a draft of his latest book.

A collection of the most engaging, imaginative, and beautiful art from around the country. More than 2 million people in cities from Washington, D.C. to Sydney, Australia marched in the name of equal rights at Women’s Marches across the world on the day after President Trump’s inauguration.