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.
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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.”
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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.”
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ABOLISH ICE
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Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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.
Seven people on a yellow inflatable raft going over a waterfall in the Rocky Mountains
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.
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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.
So nice to see you here as well! Wow, can't believe how long it's been! I'll tell Garen you say hi. :)
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 went in knowing nothing about it, and totally loved it! I was seriously crushed at the end. Still am a few days later.
