Department of Cultural Affairs
Arts fundingnews
In rare victory for an artist-run space, New York’s Flux Factory buys its building
The purchase, plus an expansion to a second Queens locale, was made possible by a rarely used municipal allocation for culture funding
Cultural policynews
Gonzalo Casals, director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, is named commissioner of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Official succeeds Tom Finkelpearl, who resigned amid scrutiny of city’s commissioning of public monuments