Arts

As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.

“The Cross Bronx is the catalyst for the Bronx history that drives my work as a documentarian of community. It’s this dichotomy of, ‘I wish this was never here,’ and ‘I would miss it if it went away.’”

New City Critics fellows will turn their critical gaze over the city.

A larger than life figure is honored across a growing landscape of commemorative parks, buildings, and place names.

Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.

Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm.

With democratic institutions and processes at a nadir, a playwright considers the public meeting's mise-en-scene. How might artists help perform power when we are out of practice?