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Why New York's Mural Boom Pays Everyone Except the Painters
NYC's street-art economy runs on exposure and licensing deals while the painters see a fraction of it — a look at how the money actually moves through the walls.
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The running news file for contemporary art: representation announcements, biennial and prize lists, acquisitions, curatorial appointments, fair schedules and space closures. Entries are dated, short and sourced. For people working in the field who need the week's changes without a magazine essay attached.
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How New York Artists Register to Legally Sell Their Own Work
Selling a painting out of a Bushwick studio triggers the same state sales tax rules as a Chelsea gallery sale — here is what New York actually requires before that first transaction.
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How New York City Actually Hands Out Public Art Commissions
Percent for Art, the MTA, Parks, and DOT each pay artists differently — or make them pay. A practical map of the four public routes, the panels that decide, and the costs nobody advertises.
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How New York City's Percent for Art Law Pays Working Artists
A 1983 city law quietly requires New York to spend on original art every time it builds a school, firehouse, or rec center — and the process has paid out more than $65 million to working artists, with real fights along the way.
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Supreme Court Declines AI Art Copyright Case
The Court's March 2 order in Thaler v. Perlmutter keeps the human-authorship rule standing — protection for handmade work, open season on machine-only output, and no answers on training data.
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What Deaccessioning Fights Mean for Museums
Every few years a museum announces it will sell collection works, and the art world erupts — here is what deaccessioning actually is, what the rules allow, and why living artists have real money on the line.
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How Art School Tuition Picks Its Artists
Before any jury, curator, or collector weighs in, art school tuition has already voted — on who can afford to try, who must sit out, and who inherits the field.
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How NYC Public Art Budgets Get Fought Over
Every spring New York stages the same fight: proposed cuts, rallies at City Hall, quiet restorations, and a June handshake — here is the machinery behind the budget dance that decides what culture in this city can afford.
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Timothy Taylor to Close New York Gallery
The London gallery will shut its New York space after April 18, 2026, per Artforum — the second British outpost to go dark in Tribeca this season.
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Frieze and TEFAF New York Overlap in May
Frieze New York's 67-gallery edition at The Shed lands on the very same week as TEFAF at the Park Avenue Armory — May in Manhattan is now a scheduling problem.