Opinion
Mayor Mamdani Should Reclaim the City’s Jefferson Statue
The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.
Todd Fine
Todd Fine holds a PhD in history from the CUNY Graduate Center. He is President of the Washington Street Advocacy Group, which does creative advocacy related to public history.
Art
In a Bear Market, the NFT Scene Embraces Goblins
Goblins became a fitting identity for NFT enthusiasts, who are uncertain about their future, yet are still darkly proud of their fast-paced, albeit often conniving, subculture.
Art
Crypto Believers Look for “Utility” at NFT.NYC
With a fresh Ethereum wallet ready to scoop up freebies, I attended the world's largest conference dedicated to that controversial wart on the Zeitgeist, the "non-fungible token."
Art
Crypto Believers Look for “Utility” at NFT.NYC
With a fresh Ethereum wallet ready to scoop up freebies, I attended the world's largest conference dedicated to that controversial wart on the Zeitgeist, the "non-fungible token."
Opinion
New York City's Treatment of the "Fearless Girl" Harms Artist Rights
By failing to consider the artist’s interests or opinions, the city is setting extraordinary precedents with “Fearless Girl” that blow up custom and fair practice.
Opinion
The Effects of September 11 Traumas, 20 Years Later
There is a debate whether the memory of Little Syria should be seized upon to tell truthful and positive stories about Arabs in the US, or whether any conflation between its history and contemporary politics is inappropriate.
Opinion
We Need to Reform the September 11 Museum
Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.
Opinion
Rezoning Plan Will Destroy What Made Soho an Artists’ Neighborhood
Will New York wake up one day and discover that speculation has cannibalized its creative industries, which underpinned the desirability of the real estate itself?