Fractured Atlas is thrilled to announce that the Theater Subdistrict Council of New York City has awarded us a $200,000 grant to support a special initiative to improve access to affordable performing arts space throughout the five boroughs.
The Creative Economy Workspace Initiative will utilize the trove of data on artists’ workspace needs available to us [...]
Today’s Metro New York reports on a scary crime wave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn:
Of Brooklyn’s police precincts, Williamsburg’s 90th, which encompasses the gentrifying South Side plus its central and east sections, has seen the greatest rise in crime over the past year — 13.49 percent — according to Compstat data. The neighboring 94th precinct, which includes [...]
Fractured Atlas is proud to announce our partnership with The Tank for next week’s symposium - if you are in NYC, please attend!
Saving Our Cultural Capital: The Challenges Facing Independent Venues and Artists in Manhattan
A symposium hosted by The Tank, Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, and Fractured Atlas, in cooperation [...]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on a conference Cleveland State University a couple of weeks ago titled “From Rust Belt to Artist Belt.”
Artists see themselves as devoted to creativity. City planners now look at artists and see something else: a highly valuable form of urban fertilizer.
Sprinkle some galleries on a dying main street. Change [...]
This is quite parochial for our members in NYC, but it’s great news nonetheless.
Regular readers know that we’ve been tracking the 475 Kent saga. Well the light at the end of the tunnel is here! Congratulations to our friends and colleagues who are back in their homes after a months-long nightmare.
Here in NYC, the idea of setting aside affordable housing for artists is considered politically poisonous. The reasoning is that as soon as you designate housing - our city’s most precious and sought-after resource - for a particular occupation or industry, then the flood gates inevitably open. “Why not affordable housing for nurses, or [...]
Here in NYC the arts community has been closely following the 475 Kent story. A couple of weeks ago I posted a copy of the letter I sent to several city agencies in support of the evicted artists.
This afternoon I was contacted by one of the newly homeless artists. Apparently they’re mounting a [...]
A few days ago I reported on the unfolding situation in Brooklyn whereby some 200 artists have been forced out of their live/work spaces with little notice and no recourse.
It appears that an organizing strategy is starting to take shape. The key issue appears to be under what specific conditions the residents will be [...]
The NYC arts community has been stunned by the mass eviction of 200+ artists from their live-work spaces in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In a clumsy and chaotic process that began last Sunday, January 20th, a host of city agencies including the Department of Buildings, the Office of Emergency Management, the Fire Department, and the Policy [...]
Our good friends at NYC Performing Arts Spaces have put out a much needed new study entitled Where Can We Work? about the challenge the city’s musicians face in finding affordable space to rehearse, record, and perform. As James Barron wrote in this morning’s NY Times:
Steadily rising real estate prices are taking a toll [...]
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