Art
In the Bronx, a Pop-up Art Show Is a Lightning Rod for Fear of Gentrification
There weren’t many protesters — just seven — but they were loud.
Gentrification
News
Report Finds New York City's Creative Sector Is Thriving, for Now
In a trend piece two months ago that caused much snickering on the internet, the New York Times wrote that creative New Yorkers are peacing out and heading west to Los Angeles, which the article heralded as a "bohemian paradise."
Art
In Bushwick, Street Art Comes with a Copious Side of Advertising Billboards
The latest additions to the Bushwick Collective, the street art project founded and curated by Joe Ficalora around the intersection of Troutman Street and St Nicholas Avenue in Brooklyn, are a number of big, garish billboards.
Art
A Crucial First Step to Bringing Artists Together to Stay in New York
Life in New York is shaped by relationship to property.
News
Graffiti Artists Sue 5Pointz Developer for Whitewashing Their Murals
Nine artists are suing Jerry Wolkoff, the owner of the 5Pointz site in Long Island City, Queens, for destroying their murals when his company G&M Realty had the building whitewashed in November 2013.
Interview
How Arts in Bushwick Has Stayed on Mission in a Rapidly Changing Neighborhood
The tenth edition of Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) is just a month away, and it's hard to believe how much has changed in the Brooklyn neighborhood since 2006.
Art
South Street Seaport, Manhattan's Oldest Intact Neighborhood, Faces Uncertain Future
Cut through by the rumbling FDR Drive and shadowed on one side by the towering skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan, the South Street Seaport is still surprisingly transporting to New York City's maritime past.
Art
Painting Four Decades of Change in the East Village
New Works and the Avenue A Cut-Out Theatre, Anton van Dalen’s first solo show in eight years, charts the shifting landscape of New York City. Populated with imaginative characters, the artist’s latest work vividly documents the forces of gentrification and change.
News
NYC Will Build 1,500 New Affordable Artists' Studios by 2025
In his State of the City speech today, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to build 1,500 new affordable live/work units for artists over the next decade.
In Brief
Street Artist Sues Developer for Using His Mural to Sell Condos
The street artist Craig Anthony Miller is suing the real estate developer Toll Brothers for using a mural he painted in Dumbo, Brooklyn, to market a nearby condo development.
Art
Brooklyn’s Own Briar Patch: A Funk Opera Takes On Gentrification
Gentrification has been the subject of countless plays and performances in New York, but the number of productions taking it on seems to have increased dramatically in recent years.
Opinion
Will Galapagos's Move to Detroit Be a Blessing or a Curse?
I grew up in the Metro Detroit area as a dancer and performer who, inevitably it seems, ended up in Brooklyn a few days after graduating college. Is it time to turn around?