Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council will provide the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) with $323.8 million, its highest-ever yearly appropriation as part of the city’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget.

This “For You” feed has transformed Bluesky for me. Now my default feed! Highly recommend adding it. foryou.club

Voted in Brooklyn for @claireforny.bsky.social! Let's go!

The article about @veken.bsky.social and me by Carolina Gazal in AGBU Insider just came out and I do love the photo. Love this sentence, “The synergy between them is palpable as they finish each other’s sentences and advocate for the hard work the other has poured into Hyperallergic.”

"Artists are struggling with the same things as everyone else: housing, healthcare, and time off." Wonderful to sit down with @hyperallergic.com editor-in-chief Hakim Bishara in Ridgewood to talk about my journey from art to politics and the perspective I'll bring to Congress.

New York City! Wow 🤯

Hyperallergic EIC @hakimbishara.bsky.social snagged a very rare interview with the First Lady of NYC Rama Duwaji. In it she says, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins.”

Diya Vij, vice president of curatorial and arts programs at the Brooklyn nonprofit Powerhouse Arts, will be New York City’s next culture commissioner. The veteran art worker is a “visionary and deeply thoughtful leader,” said Mayor Mamdani.

Join us on March 2 for an intimate conversation with artist and Hyperallergic contributor Damien Davis, whose distinctive voice challenges the power structures and inequities of the contemporary art world.

Passionate about art (and its intersections)? Hyperallergic is hiring for several roles on our Editorial and Publishing teams. If you want to work in independent media, we’d love to meet you. buff.ly/kPh13gC

No Kings!

Hundreds of artists submitted designs to Mamdani’s 36-hour “I Registered to Vote for Zohran” sticker contest. They focused on quintessential New York City imagery like public buses, street signs, subways, and pigeons.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

When architect Moseley Putney took down a wall in a mixed-use development in Louisville, he revealed a 1985 David Wojnarowicz mural. “I popped a hole in the drywall and ripped enough out that I could put a flashlight on it. And there it was,” Putney said. “It was like looking into a freakin’ tomb.”

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When Trump was elected in 2016, Laura Raicovich had been the director of the Queens Museum for under a year. In 2018, she resigned. “It was not how I would have preferred my tenure to end,” she says, “but given today’s urgencies and threats to democracy, I hope the details of the story are useful.”

ABOLISH ICE

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Don’t rank Cuomo.

I can get very used to whitewater rafting. Here @veken.bsky.social and I are going over Slaughterhouse Falls.

2,169 events across 20 countries. Millions of peope are standing up tomorrow to say with one voice: No Kings!

Three months ago today, plain-clothes ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil in his apartment building lobby after they'd followed him home. Free Mahmoud.

Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams needs to unequivocally recognize the Armenian Genocide

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

President Trump issued an executive order targeting so-called “race-centered ideology” in the Smithsonian Institution, conflating critical examinations of the nation’s oppression of women, people of color, and other groups with “anti-American” sentiment.

One of the reasons we're in this mess is because Americans really don't understand immigration and how the system works in the US. And in that vacuum of knowledge the right has been able to conjure up so many fears that continue to perpetuate themselves.

Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.

I really loved this!

For those in NYC: our guide of what to see in museums and art spaces this spring!

If you ever doubted that non-profit arts organizations were vehicles for minority communities to build cultural power, look at how this administration is targeting them. #quuerart #transart #womensart #blackart

It’s possible to enjoy the New York City arts scene without sacrificing a day’s wages — over 130 museums and cultural spaces offer free or pay-what-you-wish entry.

as profound a meditation on attention as anything I've read

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

A new collaborative Zine that feels like “the sanest response to insane times.” Read the first issue of “The Siren” for a tonic of humor and political art to get you through today.

💯 agree

Good news for one the best movies I've seen in a while.

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

"We cannot abandon the most vulnerable communities to assuage the most powerful. Even if we did, it would never be enough." This from @roxanegay.bsky.social is so needed right now.

I’m off to Baltimore for the first time. What should I see?

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Radicalism is in the soul of the US, for better or worse — a flailing energy that lashes out periodically to till the soil and plant new seeds. This is the spirit that waters the country’s vibrant and complex art.

My full interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates youtu.be/aLzKy2N4s2M?...

It remains unreported that the far-right Heritage Foundation thinktank behind Project 2025, is also the most violently anti-Armenian and pro-Turkish/ pro-Azeri/ pro-oil thinktank in the entire DC establishment.

Grateful to be here with you!

Satellite imagery analyses yield evidence of Azerbaijan’s destruction of Armenian cultural heritage sites in the last seven months as experts warn of cultural genocide.