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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.”

Just donated to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !

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.

Took a photo of @veken.bsky.social on the train yesterday on our way to the symphony to see the world premiere of a friend’s work.

Proud to publish this beautiful comic today.

Guerrilla Girls share an MLK-inspired letter that Faith Ringgold sent them in 1994.

I just voted a blank ballot in the NY Presidential primary. leaveitblankny.com

Over a thousand supporters are calling on the university to reinstate what would have been Palestinian artist Samia Halaby’s first retrospective in the US.

From major museum shows to unexpected gems in alternative spaces, our staff and contributors look back on this year’s top 50 art exhibitions around the world.

Check out these residencies, fellowships, and open calls from Banff Centre, Tusen Takk, UC Davis, and more in our December list of opportunities for artists!

Wanda Nanibush’s sudden departure from the Art Gallery of Ontario raises community questions after a pro-Israel group complained about her social media posts.

"...sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies."

Always interesting to see how @defector.bsky.social makes it work. 👏