Summer in the City

Heart-stopping heat radiates from these pieces, many of which could only have come from the sweaty hands and scorched brains of the Garden State’s most talented artists.

Human activity might be impaired by the weather disaster our species has created, but life goes on anyway, in urban spaces overcooked and microwaved, alternately dried out from drought and flash-flooded from storms and soggy from sprinklers.

You’ve been outside lately. You’ve watched the news. Set aside the TV meteorologists: here are the reporters who’ve gotten it right.