In this virtual event, Jazmine Hughes, a Metro reporter for The Times, explored these questions alongside a panel of guests whose work was crucial to the past cycles of the city’s cultural revival.
How did the city’s cultural landscape repair itself after setbacks from the economic and civic tumult in the 1970s, the challenges of crime and crumbling infrastructure in the 1980s and the ravages of the AIDs epidemic on the artistic community in the 1990s? What lessons can the arts leaders and creators of today take from those efforts? The renewal of New York’s cultural landscape is cyclical, resilient and enduring - and yet, what is unique about today’s challenges? The city has prevailed through many reinventions in decades past, and has consistently emerged with its artistic spirit, ingenuity and wellsprings of creativity intact. Prognostications about the city’s wellness are ever changing - but this is hardly the first time that New York has weathered dire pronouncements about its vitality as one of the nation’s cultural capitals. The cultural sector continues its cautious reopening this fall as theaters, museums, restaurants and other establishments recalibrate.
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