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Arts Editorial

Arts Editorial

The Arts Are Safe—For the Moment

New Yorkers seeking refuge in cool museum halls, botanic gardens and library reading rooms can stop sweating-the arts are safe, for now.

The City Council capitulated to reason and restored $20 million of arts funding in the city budget, putting back in most of a proposed $30 million cut that had threatened 33 of Read More

Arts EditorialOp-Ed

Rescuing the Stacks

The city of New York is about to make a $37 million mistake. That’s the size of a proposed cut to the budget of the New York Public Library system. This is more than a matter of trimming a little fat-it threatens the next generation of New Yorkers with intellectual malnutrition.

I moved Read More