Spring began this week officially in the Northern Hemisphere, and the new year began in Iran. Our city celebrated the end of Ramadan and St Patrick’s Day, with Mayor Mamdami joining Muslim New Yorkers for Eid al-Fitr prayers in Prospect Park and also attending a Catholic Mass, and marching in the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Fifth Avenue parade.

Now four weeks into the war he started—and with little support from allies and low backing among U.S. voters, Trump says he’s thinking about “Winding Down”. At the same time, the United States is deploying about 2,500 Marines and additional naval forces to the region. So that’s clear.

César Chávez, long honored as a leader of the farmworker movement, has also been the subject of grave allegations reported in recent accounts, including statements by Dolores Huerta, who said publicly that he raped her twice in the 1960s and that she bore two children as a result. In recognition of the labor, sacrifice, and leadership of women in the movement, we call for Huerta’s name to replace his on parades, holidays, streets, schools, libraries, parks, post offices, vessels, monuments, murals, and other public institutions or commemorations that now bear his name.¡Viva Dolores Huerta!

In a classic New York tension between preservation and redevelopment, a canonical piece of early street culture history—a 1987 mural by Keith Haring—is at risk. The City says it will preserve it, but many remain unclear how—and are openly skeptical.

In NYC art world news the new New Museum opened to throngs eager to learn about humanity from all its angles. “New Humans: Memories of the Future” looks as what it means to be human in the face of technological change, with selections spanning 20th–21st century art, science, and film with over 200+ contributors. Enthralling, overwhelming, poetic and brutal all at once.

At the mural festival called The Crystal Ship 2026 in Ostend, Belgium, a cleverly named exhibition “Subway Art”—curated by Alice Gallery—revisits the origins of graffiti culture, tracing its roots in the subway systems of New York and other early writing scenes. Presented alongside the festival’s citywide program, it anchors the broader theme of Curiosity by grounding it in the movement’s unsanctioned beginnings and writer-driven history.

Coming up in April, “Martha Cooper: A Retrospective” opens at the Bronx Documentary Center Annex in the Bronx, New York, offering a comprehensive survey of her five-decade career documenting urban life and creative expression. On view from April 9 through June 14, 2026, the exhibition brings together decades of work that helped define the visual record of graffiti and street culture.

Here is our weekly photographic interview with the street, this time featuring: Carlos Alberto, City Kitty, Hanimal, Homesick, IMK, Le Crue, Mickalene Thomas, Queen Andrea, and Vesod.