Naomi Otsu

Sep 2, 2024 | family.style | Naomi Otsu |Joshua Glass |Rose Courteau

There’s one thing that New Yorkers do when they visit a city. They orient themselves by comparing various neighborhoods to the ones from home. I think it’s some weird security mechanism (at least for me) and attempted, while visiting Chicago for the first time. I quickly abandoned these thoughts after realizing it wasn’t what I expected. What makes Chicago special? For me, it’s the architecture and the river that runs throughout the city paired with their well designed public spaces.

Sep 2, 2024 | family.style | Althea Champion |Naomi Otsu |Joshua Glass

For Kameelah Janan Rasheed, text is never fixed. In her solo show at Anonymous, "beneath this sentence is a hole* and your words are leaking. i place my mouth at the puncture site, waiting to be engorged by your lactating punctuation,” the Brooklyn-based artist’s cryptographic work comes to an intimate New York gallery for the first time.

Apr 23, 2024 | grubstreet.com | Adam Reiner |Naomi Otsu

Thanks to dropping rents and the arrival of some younger residents, the UES’s reputation as a sleepy restaurant desert is changing. Take Hoexters, a tavern that mixes martinis with smashburgers and mortadella plates in a room adorned with a 17-foot mural that once hung in the original Hoexter’s Market (it was around the corner), depicting that restaurant’s regulars.

Apr 10, 2023 | atablefortwo.com.au | Atable ForTwo |Naomi Otsu

Illustration: by Naomi Otsu When Lucie Franc de Ferriere was looking for a place to open her first bakery, From Lucie, she gravitated to the East Village, motivated in part by nostalgia. She used to live in the neighborhood and always loved its small scale.