Feature
Jazmine Hayes Charts Community Displacement, Resilience in Brownsville Art Commission
“I genuinely want any child that walks through this door to be and feel protected,” the East New York-raised artist told Hyperallergic.
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
News
NYC to Provide Free Art Supplies to Grantees
Winners of the city's recently doubled grant for artists can also enjoy unlimited supplies from Materials for the Arts.
News
Mamdani Doubles Grants for NYC Artists
For the last 20 years, city-funded grants for individual artists have remained at $5,000.
News
NYC Culture Commissioner Diya Vij Appoints Bryan Joseph Lee as Deputy
The cultural strategist and producer will work alongside the curator and commissioner at the Department of Cultural Affairs.
News
NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture
The overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations.
News
Knicks and Spurs Game Gets an Arts Wager
San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture challenged the NYC agency to make a deal: Whoever loses Game 5 posts their favorite artwork in the winning city.
Feature
Can Diya Vij Make NYC More Affordable for Artists?
Arts leaders speak about the tough challenges the new culture commissioner will face in the job.
News
Curator Diya Vij Named NYC Culture Commissioner
The veteran art worker is a “visionary and deeply thoughtful leader,” said Mayor Mamdani.
Opinion
NYC Deserves a Culture Commissioner Who Cares
The city is in a deep affordability crisis that is reshaping who can live and work here, and which institutions can survive.
News
NYC Announces Three New Public Artists in Residence
Ifeoma Ebo, Stephen Kwok, and Mauricio Higuera will bring “creative problem solving” to three public agencies.
News
BRIC and Bronx Children's Museum Join Cultural Institutions Group
They are among five NYC organizations newly added to the coalition, which receives significant funding and energy subsidies from the city.
News
Eric Adams Calls for Artists to Design “Chinatown Welcome Gateway”
Critics have questioned the city’s plan to work with art blocks away from the site of a future Manhattan jail.