“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds
Pigeons are disappearing from Maria Hernandez Park in Brooklyn, and one artist says she knows why. New York fixture Tina Piña Trachtenburg — better known…
Protest Targets Whitney Museum Board Ties After Canceled Performance
A group of protesters staged a demonstration in the lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art last Friday evening, May 23, targeting board members…
Hit by Federal Grant Losses, NYC Culture Orgs Ask for More City Funding
Several dozen New York City arts and culture advocates — including unionized museum workers, public school educators, community nonprofit leaders, visual artists, theater performers, and…
Columbia Students Honor Mahmoud Khalil in Unofficial Commencement
This morning, May 21, a chorus of boos directed at Columbia University’s Acting President Claire Shipman resonated through the crowd of thousands at the school’s…
Eric Adams Calls for Artists to Design “Chinatown Welcome Gateway”
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s criticized plan to “beautify” parts of Chinatown is moving forward as the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) begins to…
New York University MFA Students Rethink the Body
The stress of 2025 is no doubt taking a physical toll — so it’s timely that New York University’s MFA cohort is reckoning with their bodies…
A Late Feminist Sculptor Who Plumbed the History of Human Migration
Tuning out the din of fad-hunting throughout Frieze Week, a New York exhibition re-awakens a late feminist sculptor’s embodiments of human migration — both primordial…
Conversation Flows at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
“I was friends with a porn star when I moved back to Los Angeles, and we spent a very depressing Christmas together,” Massoud Hayoun, an…
Frieze New York Is Back to Its Old Ways
“Oh, I looove her!” I hear a woman in a striped suit gush about Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens, whose large glass piece “Pinky Sunset…
New York City Shows to See This Week
There’s so much to stimulate the eye and mind in museums and galleries this week that it’s a joy to behold. I spent way too…