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NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture
The overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations.
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
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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.
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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.
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NYC Announces Three New Public Artists in Residence
Ifeoma Ebo, Stephen Kwok, and Mauricio Higuera will bring “creative problem solving” to three public agencies.
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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.
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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.
News
130 Free Cultural Spaces to Visit in NYC
A new list released by the Department of Cultural Affairs highlights dozens of free or pay-what-you-wish museums and institutions.
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NYC Cultural Orgs Push for Funding as Budget Deadline Looms
Local advocates and institutions have called for an additional $53 million to raise the city’s cultural budget baseline.
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NYC Is Looking for Artists to Honor Four Influential Women
Helen Rodríguez Trías, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, Billie Holiday, and Katherine Walker will get their own monuments in the city.
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Museum Leaders Urge NYC Mayor to Reverse Budget Cuts
"Simply stated — culture delivers,” reads a missive signed by leadership at The Met, the Studio Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and more.