“Nature-Girl, It Happened All At -Once” by Valerie Fowler (Courtesy of Lydia Street Gallery) Valerie Fowler’s “Entanglements” & Benné Rockett’s “Grown in Darkness” Through August 10, Lydia Street Gallery It’s a pleasure to see Austin’s bevy of talented working artists grow and change over the years, exploring new material and thematic fixations. Valerie Fowler is…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island non-profit organization learned Wednesday that it would have more than $500,000 in federal grants restored, but arts and culture funding around Staten Island remains threatened. However, the $565,194 restored to the Staten Island Museum in Livingston may again be rescinded as President Donald Trump’s administration appeals a federal…

Concerns are rising over the removal of certain artifacts at the National Museum of African American History and Culture due to a review prompted by President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting “improper ideology.” At least 32 artifacts, including significant items related to slavery and Civil Rights, have been taken down from the museum, raising discussions…

Lunation: 29 Days of Darkness & Light group printmaking show on display until May 30th at 4 Pillars Gallery in The Grand Center for Arts and Culture downtown New Ulm. NEW ULM – The public is invited to attend the Grad’s latest art exhibits, “Lunation: 29 Days of Darkness & Light,” before it closed. The…

I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir, by Keith McNally (Gallery Books, 303 pp., $29.99) On a recent Friday evening, I met a friend at the Lucy Mercer Bar, the upstairs lounge of Minetta Tavern, which opened last year in Washington, D.C.’s Union Market neighborhood. The lounge, named for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s reported mistress, is resplendent…

The Getty Villa Museum will reopen to the public on a limited basis beginning June 27 after a nearly six-month closure forced by the devastating Palisades fire. On the night of Jan. 7, reports swirled that the wind-driven conflagration had reached the outskirts of the Villa. A Getty team stayed through the night, putting out…

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To kick off its 2025 concert season, the alliance is presenting Folk and Country Fest. The event takes place from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. May 31 at the gazebo in Memorial Park, 301 Third St. Originally Published: May 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT