A $4.3m renovation grant will help restore the historical Art Students League to its former glory

Mayor Eric Adams and the city council restored $53m in funding for public programming last month

The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems

The Cultural Development Fund distributed grants to 76% of eligible applicants throughout the city's five boroughs

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

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

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

Latest allocations include $32.8m from the National Endowment for the Humanities and $47.1m from New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs

The arts sector must engage in constant dialogue with communities, says the city's commissioner of cultural affairs

A statue of the “unbought and unbossed” first black US congresswoman is to be unveiled in Prospect Park in 2020