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The sun had just set and a snail named Velveeta appeared to emerge from a slumber, perked up its tentacles and began moving around. Aleia Murawski saw the (slow) motion out of the corner of her eye. She strategically placed a cucumber slice at one end of a miniature model of a grocery store, where she wanted Velveeta to go.
Right on cue, Velveeta made a beeline as much as any snail can beeline for the cucumber. Ms. Murawski, an artist based in Michigan, knew she had her shot and began filming with her phone. “Yeeesss,” she whispered. Within two minutes, it was over.
Thereâs Dance All Over, No Matter Where You Look
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Credit.Camilo Fuentealba for The New York Times
Live dance may largely be on hold, but thereâs still beauty and catharsis outside of theaters, in the movements we encounter every day. We asked four photographers to show us how people are physically navigating a world in which awareness of our bodies â how much space we take up, whether weâre six feet from our neighbor â has become the norm.
Produced by Jolie Ruben and Amanda Webster
Camilo Fuentealba
Camilo Fuentealba staked out New Yorkâs hottest club â Costco â in addition to local businesses around the city where residents were buying essentials. âI decided to explore how we move in and out of these routine places, documenting the daily rituals we must partake in just to survive,â he said.
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When Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s architecture critic, embarked on his series of strolls through New York City in March, he knew he’d be providing a peek at Midtown’s skyscrapers and Harlem’s brownstones for readers around the world. But he also hoped New Yorkers would turn to the walks as a source of comfort and pride while they hunkered down at home.
The Times recently published Mr. Kimmelman’s walks 17 so far as an online collection that allows readers to hop from the Bronx to Brooklyn, from pre-Cambrian days to the present, with guides like David Adjaye, Deborah Berke, Eric Sanderson and Suketu Mehta. In a conversation from his Upper West Side apartment earlier this month, Mr. Kimmelman reflected on how the project changed his perspective on the city where he was born and grew up and that he has called home for most of his life and also about how