Arts
The Tempest
As midsummer nights get hotter and wetter, outdoor performance venues and workers are adapting.
A Closer Look: Across the Bronx
“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.’”
Meet the 2025-2026 New City Critics Fellows
New City Critics fellows will turn their critical gaze over the city.
Chisholm Town
A larger than life figure is honored across a growing landscape of commemorative parks, buildings, and place names.
The Invisible Arch
Public art proposals are a highly contested terrain. But the processes for the commissions themselves escape scrutiny.
Sign Off
Blank billboards speak to power struggles, policy gaps, and shifting priorities for New York City’s public realm.
This Is a Rehearsal
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?
Try a Little Tenderness
A speculative municipal bureaucracy offers infrastructure for emotional support.
A Living Painting
Large-scale public sculptures by Scott Burton have traveled from a corporate lobby to a Queens art center, but they are still in search of a forever home. Can their meanings endure in a new frame?