Have you registered to vote yet? With New York’s October 9 deadline rapidly approaching, now would be a good time to cross this off your list. Luckily, 60+ artists, including New Yorkers Julie Mehretu, Kambui Olujimi, and Wangechi Mutu, have teamed up with the non-partisan initiative Plan Your Vote to offer a range of resources to make the task a bit easier.

Ilana Novick reflects on the calming effect of Public Art Fund’s Art on the Grid, which has adorned bus shelters and wifi kiosks across the city with timely artworks by 50 artists. It’s been a welcome addition to a summer characterized by waiting. Look out for snippets of the exhibition at a bus stop near you before September 20.

Fellow editor Dan Schindel also shares news of the second annual Black Women’s Film Conference, continuing online through October 4, with screenings, conversations, and more organized by the New Negress Film Society.

Art on the Grid, an exhibition installed in over 500 bus shelters and 1,700 wifi kiosks around the five boroughs,softens our long waits – for the bus, or for the pandemic to be over.

For their second annual Black Women’s Film Conference, members of the New York-based collective New Negress Film Society are bringing together women and non-binary filmmakers, curators, and scholars for a virtual edition.

Tenants and members of a 40-year-old artist collective in Fort Greene are speaking out about months of alleged landlord harassment. On September 11, about 60 community members rallied in solidarity with the tenants.

The Met has hired Patricia Marroquin as its first full-time curator of Native American art, a major milestone in its 100-year history. The museum started displaying Indigenous art in its American Wing for the first time in 2017.

A new survey that looks at the pandemic’s impact on galleries found sizable staff cuts, including at galleries with net profits of $10 million or more.

A new, nonpartisan initiative launched by the nonprofit Vote.org seeks to channel the power of art to encourage voter participation.

The Virgin Islands have subpoenaed a second MoMA trustee, the hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, for ties to Jeffrey Epstein, along with his wife Eva Andersson-Dubin (an ex-girlfriend of Epstein’s).

The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse is selling a Jackson Pollock’s painting in order to acquire more art by underrepresented artists. It is estimated to go for between $12 to 18 million.

Susan Chen: On Longing (Meredith Rosen Gallery) through September 19

Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures (MoMA) through September 19

50 Artists: Art on the Grid (across all five boroughs) through September 20

Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags (Rockefeller Center) through October 2

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Études (New Release Gallery) through October 2