New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York City’s 2027 budget includes record $323m for culture
Announced on the heels of the rent freeze, the money includes a new fund to help struggling arts organisations
Final proposals for Billie Holiday monument in New York City revealed
One of the six shortlisted designs, by artists including Tavares Strachan and Thomas J Price, will be chosen this summer and erected at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens
New York City provides long-term support to five local arts organisations
The organisations have been inaugurated into the coveted Cultural Institutions Group, made up of entities that operate on public land and engage meaningfully with their communities
New York's Department of Cultural Affairs awards institutions more than $200m for capital projects
A $4.3m renovation grant will help restore the historical Art Students League to its former glory
New York City’s 2025 budget includes a record $254m for culture
Mayor Eric Adams and the city council restored $53m in funding for public programming last month
New York City budget for 2025 restores $53m in cultural funding
The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs announces $52.2m in grants to more than 1,000 organisations
The Cultural Development Fund distributed grants to 76% of eligible applicants throughout the city's five boroughs
New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs awards $58m in grants to more than 1,000 arts organisations
The 1,070 cultural grant recipients, the first since new municipal reforms to correct for funding biases were introduced, are the largest funding cohort in the department’s history
With $4.5m funding boost, the Noguchi Museum will open the artist’s home and studio to the public
Isamu Noguchi’s live-work space, located across the street from his namesake museum, will undergo much-needed renovations to become accessible for public tours
Laurie Cumbo, city council member who founded a museum in Brooklyn, tapped to lead New York’s cultural affairs department
New York mayor Eric Adams has allegedly selected Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, to lead the largest municipal arts department in the US
In rare victory for an artist-run space, New York’s Flux Factory buys its building
The purchase, plus an expansion to a second Queens locale, was made possible by a rarely used municipal allocation for culture funding
Grants multiply as government agencies and foundations seek to rescue US cultural organisations amid pandemic
Latest allocations include $32.8m from the National Endowment for the Humanities and $47.1m from New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs
Gonzalo Casals, director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, is named commissioner of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Official succeeds Tom Finkelpearl, who resigned amid scrutiny of city’s commissioning of public monuments
Why it is vital to promote cultural inclusion at New York's institutions
The arts sector must engage in constant dialogue with communities, says the city's commissioner of cultural affairs
First She Built NYC monument to honour Shirley Chisholm
A statue of the “unbought and unbossed” first black US congresswoman is to be unveiled in Prospect Park in 2020
Bloomberg calls for collaboration, not censorship in New York
Mayor Bloomberg has set up a Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission which, he says, will help non-profit organisations