The West Harlem Art Fund

12/19/2025

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/19/art-market-2025-review-all-eyes-on-the-gulf-as-trump-destabilises-global-order

Read the review on art around the world in 2025.

Tariffs and new anti-trafficking rules took their toll in the US and Europe this year, as attention and investment shifted to the Middle East

12/12/2025

Registration will open in January.

The Middle Ages (5th-14th century) coincided with the fall of the Roman Empire and the Golden Age of Islam, a period when paintings were often more symbolic or centered on […]

12/11/2025

Studio visit with Michael Poast in Greenpoint Brooklyn yesterday.

12/09/2025

We prepare New York City for the impacts of climate change and address remediation efforts from an equity and public health perspective.

12/09/2025

What are your important issues for the City? This is the time to research and share so healthy conversations can be had.

We prepare New York City for the impacts of climate change and address remediation efforts from an equity and public health perspective.

12/09/2025

Stargazing

Star-gazing has been around for thirty thousand years before Christ. Babylonians and Mesopotamians (modern-day Iraq and Syria) studied the stars along with early Chinese, Central American, and European cultures. Astronomy was used by early cultures for timekeeping, navigation, spiritual practices, and agricultural planning. Now, moving forward to present times, Black Americans have historically faced systemic exclusion and racism in outdoor spaces, creating lasting barriers like fear, lack of access, and cultural disconnects stemming from segregation in parks, violence (e.g., Ahmaud Arbery), lack of tailored programming, underrepresentation, and stereotypes that label nature as a “white” activity, although many Black individuals maintain strong connections to nature through fishing, gardening, and reclaiming these spaces for joy and freedom, notes the Center for American Progress....

Star-gazing has been around for thirty thousand years before Christ. Babylonians and Mesopotamians (modern-day Iraq and Syria) studied the stars along with early Chinese, Central American, and…

12/09/2025

West Harlem Art Fund is stargazing in December and January and birding in March.

Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/3vKrUX0 | and author Dudley Edmondson discusses the finer points of bird watching and ho...

12/09/2025

Stargazing

Looking at the stars is an ancient tradition that goes back thirty thousand years before the birth of Christ. Early Chinese, Central American and North European cultures have been studying the stars along with Babylonians and Mesopotamians (modern day Iraq and Syria). It is believed that astronomy was used by early cultures for timekeeping, navigation, spiritual, religious practices, and agricultural planning.

Looking at the stars is an ancient tradition that goes back thirty thousand years before the birth of Christ. Early Chinese, Central American and North European cultures have been studying the star…

12/08/2025

https://www.mta.info/agency/arts-design/40
MTA Arts in Transit celebrates 40 years serving the public.

MTA Arts & Design, one of the world’s largest public-art collections, is marking 40 years of delivering public art across the MTA system with a yearlong celebration to feature commemorative projects and new work. Started in 1985 and encompassing a broad spectrum of artistic activity—including po...

12/05/2025

Holiday lightings at our park venues.