Veken Gueyikian

No Kings!

NYC Artist and Educator Wins Zohran Mamdani Sticker Contest Nishan Patel’s design depicts a bodega storefront with a furry feline in the window, a tender homage to the beloved neighborhood businesses.

Hundreds of artists submitted designs to Mamdani’s 36-hour “I Registered to Vote for Zohran” sticker contest. They focused on quintessential New York City imagery like public buses, street signs, subways, and pigeons.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

40-Year-Old David Wojnarowicz Mural Resurfaces, Only to Be Hidden Again The stewards of the artist’s legacy hope that a work miraculously discovered in Louisville, Kentucky, now covered up by the building’s developer, can see the light of day once more.

When architect Moseley Putney took down a wall in a mixed-use development in Louisville, he revealed a 1985 David Wojnarowicz mural. “I popped a hole in the drywall and ripped enough out that I could put a flashlight on it. And there it was,” Putney said. “It was like looking into a freakin’ tomb.”

Just donated to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !

This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum It’s a story about power, leverage, and fear during the first Trump administration, and also about the potential for solidarity and love in the second.

When Trump was elected in 2016, Laura Raicovich had been the director of the Queens Museum for under a year. In 2018, she resigned. “It was not how I would have preferred my tenure to end,” she says, “but given today’s urgencies and threats to democracy, I hope the details of the story are useful.”

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ABOLISH ICE

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Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Don’t rank Cuomo.

Seven people on a yellow inflatable raft going over a waterfall in the Rocky Mountains

I can get very used to whitewater rafting. Here @veken.bsky.social and I are going over Slaughterhouse Falls.

2,169 events across 20 countries. Millions of peope are standing up tomorrow to say with one voice: No Kings!

Three months ago today, plain-clothes ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil in his apartment building lobby after they'd followed him home.

Free Mahmoud.

Opportunities in May 2025 Residencies, fellowships, grants, and open calls from the Vilcek Foundation, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.

Our monthly list of opportunities is a resource for artists and creatives seeking funding and community support to further their work.

Armenians in NYC mark genocide and Mayor Adams' ongoing silence Federal prosecutors said the mayor agreed to a Turkish government official’s request not to make any statements about the Armenian genocide in 2022

More on Gothamist here

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social please consider making a statement today.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams needs to unequivocally recognize the Armenian Genocide

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

So nice to see you here as well! Wow, can't believe how long it's been! I'll tell Garen you say hi. :)

Trump Whitewashes History in New Smithsonian Executive Order Among other disturbing and demonstrably false distortions, the mandate suggests that race is a “biological reality” — a tenet of racist pseudoscientific beliefs.

President Trump issued an executive order targeting so-called “race-centered ideology” in the Smithsonian Institution, conflating critical examinations of the nation’s oppression of women, people of color, and other groups with “anti-American” sentiment.

One of the reasons we're in this mess is because Americans really don't understand immigration and how the system works in the US. And in that vacuum of knowledge the right has been able to conjure up so many fears that continue to perpetuate themselves.

Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.

I went in knowing nothing about it, and totally loved it! I was seriously crushed at the end. Still am a few days later.

I really loved this!

For those in NYC: our guide of what to see in museums and art spaces this spring!

If you ever doubted that non-profit arts organizations were vehicles for minority communities to build cultural power, look at how this administration is targeting them. #quuerart #transart #womensart #blackart

130 Free Cultural Spaces to Visit in NYC A new list released by the Department of Cultural Affairs highlights dozens of free or pay-what-you-wish museums and institutions.

It’s possible to enjoy the New York City arts scene without sacrificing a day’s wages — over 130 museums and cultural spaces offer free or pay-what-you-wish entry.

What exactly would that look like? Would we need to create a feed vs a list?