Photographer Petra Collins's new book STAR presents the story of a fictional pop star as she becomes entangled with an Asian pop group and offers a lurid take on fame and fandom. Visually, the book represents a  return to what Collins calls the “flowy and naïve” approach of her early work. The images — alongside bits of spare, inscrutable prose — collectively present a new version of a story Collins has been telling since she was 15, about the unblinking eye trained on girls, notes The New York Times.

  If a neighborhood's memory is held in its creative spaces, then East Harlem is currently a vivid, breathing archive. This weekend, the East Harlem Open Studios (EHOS) returns, transforming private workrooms into public forums for conversation and discovery. From 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday, more than 25 artists and galleries invite you to see the "marks we leave in the world"—those stories about how they navigate the messy creative process that bri...