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Unexpected Assignment

The death of Jeffrey Gantt by apparent drowning in Montauk’s Fort Pond on Sunday is a tragedy for his friends, families, and business acquaintances, and is a reminder how quickly things can go wrong on the water, even in the most seemingly benign places.

Visions of a World in Crisis

Guided by the conviction that artists are the antennae of society, Mr. Kratz, a painter and president of the New York Academy of Art, and Ms. Roach, who is the director of the Flag Art Foundation in New York City, began to solicit artists' thoughts on living and working during quarantine and what life would be like afterward.