TKTS was started to bring new audiences, especially lower-income people of color, into New York City theaters. Then and now, the locations for discount ticket sales haven’t reached as far…
As developers target buildings and neighborhoods that used to offer affordable studio space to artists, more and more practitioners are finding it difficult simply to find a way to do…
The street-art movement was never dependent on one space, and since 5 Pointz’s demise, new work has shifted to new spots or to ones that were already operating. The long-running…
A developer’s move to close the famous graffiti site in 2013 didn’t kill the street-art scene. It did raise questions about the links and tensions between street art and gentrification.
We know this map is barely a start. If you know of a gallery, artists’ collective, performance group, music venue, theater, museum or dance space that we don’t, tell us…
Bushwick Open Studios put that neighborhood’s art scene on the map—but the event grew so popular some artists worried the art had become an afterthought. An inside look at how…
In a city that is only one-third non-Hispanic white, only a third of the creative workforce is made up with blacks, Latinos and Asians. What’s keeping the art scene from…
Art has been part of the response to the killing of Eric Garner and other incidents. But artists with a political message can face challenges finding space to show their…
