News
NYC Allocates $241M for Arts and Culture
The 2024 adopted budget is the highest-ever for the Department of Cultural Affairs, but arts advocates are calling for increased transparency.
New York
Film
A New Film Captures the Majesty of Blue Whales
Blue Whales: Return of the Giants (2023) is screening daily in 2D at the American Museum of Natural History.
Art
The Brooklyn Artist Revitalizing New York, One Flyer At a Time
Max Kolomatsky has amassed a TikTok following for his redesigns of street posters and signs for local residents and small businesses.
News
Angelina Jolie Takes Over Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Former NYC Studio
The building at 57 Great Jones Street where the artist lived and worked, which has been on the market for $60K/month, will house the new Atelier Jolie.
Art
In This NYC Exhibition, the Dealers Made the Art
Art (by) Dealers at the Manhattan gallery Long Story Short features works by 94 gallerists at $500 a pop.
News
Do You Have What It Takes to Be the Met Museum’s Head of Provenance?
The new hire, who will be paid $140,000–$160,000, will be responsible for investigating the sometimes murky backstories of the museum’s vast holdings.
News
Harlem's Studio Museum Parts Ways With David Adjaye Over Sexual Assault Allegations
Other US and UK institutions have cut ties with the architect in the wake of the accusations.
News
Nancy Yao Will Not Lead Women's History Museum
Yao has “withdrawn” from her role as director of the new Smithsonian museum amid an investigation of her conduct as the former leader of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America.
Art
The Jewish Museum’s Sanitized History of an Opium Dynasty
With The Sassoons, the Manhattan museum missed an opportunity to look more critically at the family’s opium trade, and to delve into the lives of its women.
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Announcement
Experience Fabulous Free Art Events at Manhattan West
Seasonal programming includes a dance series presented in partnership with the Guggenheim’s Works & Process, live music from around the globe, and opera.
Art
Alexis Rockman Depicts the Ominous Beauty of Glaciers and Shipwrecks
Rockman renders crashing ships invisible behind clouds of snow.
Interview
D’Angelo Lovell Williams’s Nuanced Vision of Black Queer Love
The Brooklyn-based nonbinary artist discusses their recent foray into weaving and how photographs can challenge the seemingly static images in our minds.