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In 1976, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs was established as a separate city agency, headed by the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, who is appointed by the Mayor. [ 4 ] Its programs include Materials for the Arts , a large facility in Long Island City that distributes free reused supplies to arts organizations (in partnership ...
The Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), a branch of the government of New York City, is the largest public funder of the arts in the United States.DCLA's funding budget is larger than that of the National Endowment for the Arts, the federal government's national arts funding mechanism. [16]
NYCDEP manages three upstate supply systems to provide the city's drinking water: the Croton system, the Catskill system, and the Delaware system. The overall distribution system has a storage capacity of 550 billion US gallons (2.1 × 10 9 m 3) and provides over 1 billion US gallons (3,800,000 m 3) per day of water to more than eight million city residents and another one million users in ...
The Art Commission was established in 1898, the same year as the consolidation of New York City, as a response to the City Beautiful Movement that sprung up around the time of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. [2] [3] Its members were instrumental in the creation of the 1956 Bard Act.
Materials for the Arts is a program of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs that provides free "new and gently used donated supplies to artists, nonprofit groups, and public schools." [ 1 ] Its current executive director is Harriet Taub .
The city's parks have been described as the "greatest outdoor public art museum" in the United States. [1] More than 300 sculptures can be found on the streets and parks of the New York metropolitan area, many of which were created by notable sculptors such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Daniel Chester French, and John Quincy Adams Ward.
Art Part of New York University, emphasizes art's historical, cultural, and social context Grolier Club: Upper East Side Manhattan Literary Books, drawings, illustrations, prints Public exhibitions from its book and literary collections Ground Zero Museum Workshop: Lower Manhattan Manhattan History American and NY history
NYC Arts, stylized as NYC-ARTS and formerly called Sunday Arts and SundayArts Primetime, is a program dedicated to promoting cultural groups, activities and events in the New York tri-state area produced by and aired by WNET. It is also aired on its sister stations, WLIW in Long Island and NJTV in New Jersey.