LEON + LACTIC Thank You

A Brooklyn artist collaborates with his friends to fund a gender-affirming surgery that his medical insurance refused to cover

“There once was a little boy who was born like a girl. When he was little, he never thought about his gender; he was just a person,” says a narrator over a video scrolling through photos of a child amid the sometimes turbulent transitions of growing up. As it so happens, this child is Leon Finley, who struggled for years feeling like a boy trapped …

Fiercely Curious + Made Popup Show

The Brooklyn-based artist and designer collective celebrates its one year anniversary by blurring the lines between physical and digital gallery space

When Erin Przekop and Tom Critchlow were first conceiving the idea that would become their online art boutique Fiercely Curious, they didn’t realize they were going to be starting a creative family. “We were hiking in the Andes and Erin was trying to get out of fashion, so we were trying to figure out how to combine our talents to create something new,” says Critchlow, …

NYC’s Massive Hidden Pot Farm

Hidden below a thriving maraschino cherry business in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Arthur Mondella was secretly running the largest pot operation in New York City history. When inspectors arrived at the factory to investigate possible cherry-related pollution, they caught a faint whiff of weed, prompting Mondella to excuse himself to the bathroom only to take his own life. The entire situation has left the police perplexed …