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\n\tNew York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the speaker of the city council have announced their first budget, totaling $125.8 billion. That will include some $323.8 million for the city\u2019s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), its highest-ever appropriation, as part of the city\u2019s 2027 fiscal year budget, per a report in Hyperallergic<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThat figure represents a more than 6 percent increase from last year\u2019s allocation of $299.6 million, which was also a record.<\/p>\n \n\tDCLA is the largest cultural funding agency in the US, giving direct subsidies to the 39 member institutions of the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), which includes major institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the American Museum of Natural History, as well as smaller and culturally specific organizations including El Museo del Barrio and the Museum of Jewish Heritage.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOur city\u2019s artists and cultural institutions are the beating heart of New York City,\u201d the mayor told Hyperallergic<\/em>. \u201cBut a crushing affordability crisis has threatened to drive out the very artists who have long defined life this city. My administration is proud to make a historic, record-level investment in New York City\u2019s arts and cultural organizations because we believe the people who make this city what it is should be able to build their lives here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe affordability crisis for artists in New York was highlighted recently in an essay by artist Josh Kline in October <\/em>magazine, \u201cNew York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art.\u201d In 2024, Gonzalo Casals and Mauricio Delfin, cofounders and codirectors of the New York\u2013based Culture & Arts Policy Institute, wrote for ARTnews<\/em> that four years after the arrival of Covid-19, \u201cthe protracted consequences of the pandemic on the arts and culture sector and society remain,\u201d and that \u201cthe sector continues to face an accelerated rate of disinvestment in a context marked by economic downturns and a governance model that limits civic engagement and hampers collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFor the first time, DCLA points out in an Instagram post, the budget includes a Cultural Stability Fund to prop up struggling arts organizations. The fund provides $10 million annually through fiscal year 2029 as an emergency resource for both cultural organizations and artists.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAt a time when artists and cultural organizations have been asked to do more with less, this budget says something powerful: New York believes in the arts and in its artists,\u201d said Cultural Affairs Commissioner Diya Vij in the Instagram post. \u201cArts and culture are how we tell our stories, care for one another, and shape the future of this city. I\u2019m incredibly proud that we\u2019re choosing to stand with the people who make New York the creative capital of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/new-york-mayor-mamdani-announces-record-culture-funding-1234791047\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2243511052.jpg?w=1024″] New York mayor Zohran Mamdani and the speaker of the city council have announced their first budget, totaling $125.8 billion. That will include some $323.8 million for the city\u2019s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), its highest-ever appropriation, as part of the city\u2019s 2027 fiscal year budget, per a report in Hyperallergic.\u00a0 That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2024265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}