“We will have literally nothing left to give as of Friday,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. The next shipment is expected on Tuesday. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “ART”
Celebrating King the Activist (Not Just the Dreamer) in Art
By Gotham Rex on January 15, 2021
A digital tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joins seven Brooklyn-based artists, and BAM. Source: New York Times
Alice Rose George, a ‘Photographer’s Dream Editor,’ Dies at 76
By Gotham Rex on January 12, 2021
Her unerring eye for visuals made her a fixture in New York’s magazine world, where she promoted scores of famous and unsung photographers. Source: New York Times
A Scramble to Boost Vaccinations in New York
By Gotham Rex on January 11, 2021
Teachers, residents older than 75 and more medical workers can now get Covid-19 shots as the state eases its rules. Source: New York Times
Can New York Speed Up the Vaccine Rollout?
By Gotham Rex on January 5, 2021
The governor threatened penalties for hospitals that don’t increase the pace of inoculations, and made more health care workers eligible. Source: New York Times
Adál Maldonado, Provocative ‘Nuyorican’ Photographer, Dies at 72
By Gotham Rex on January 2, 2021
Adál, who moved from Puerto Rico to New York as a teenager, created art that was often bitingly satirical and politically subversive. Source: New York Times
New York City Cultural Groups Awarded More Than $47 Million in Grants
By Gotham Rex on December 16, 2020
The Department of Cultural Affairs announced Tuesday that more than 1,000 of the city’s cultural organizations would receive the funds. Source: New York Times
Leslie-Lohman Museum Announces New Director
By Gotham Rex on December 14, 2020
The nonprofit executive Alyssa Nitchun will lead the museum after its last director, Gonzalo Casals, became the Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City. Source: New York Times
Museums Are Still Open in New York. Here’s What’s on View (for Now).
By Gotham Rex on December 10, 2020
Sanford Biggers, Félix Fénéon and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s history of itself are some of the exhibitions that remain open to the public. Source: New York Times
Ronald Lauder Gives Major Arms and Armor Gift to the Met
By Gotham Rex on December 9, 2020
The galleries will be named after the collector, whose 91-object gift is the museum’s most significant since 1942. Source: New York Times
Portraits of Nurses, By the Designer Rebecca Moses
By Gotham Rex on December 7, 2020
The designer Rebecca Moses turns a quarantine art project into a gift of thanks and tribute. Source: New York Times
Cliff Joseph, Artist, Activist and Therapist, Dies at 98
By Gotham Rex on December 4, 2020
After agitating for the inclusion of Black artists in New York museums, he helped introduce a multicultural perspective to the field of art therapy. Source: New York Times
Black Voguers Populate Billboards in a Times Square ‘Midnight Moment’
By Gotham Rex on November 29, 2020
The opportunity to stage “Black Magic” in Times Square “was a great proposition to do something transgressive,” said the artist Rashaad Newsome. Source: New York Times
5 Things to Do This Weekend
By Gotham Rex on November 19, 2020
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually or in person in New York City. Source: New York Times
Frederick Weston, Outsider Artist Who Was Finally Let In, Dies at 73
By Gotham Rex on November 18, 2020
For decades he made his art in dingy Manhattan hotel rooms, living hand-to-mouth, hoping for his big break. It finally arrived, just a few years before his death. Source: New York Times