A Bowery Night Brings Rhizome More Than $438,000 for Its Thirtieth Year

Rhizome, the New York nonprofit devoted to digital art, turned thirty this fall and marked the occasion with a benefit at Capitale in Manhattan. The evening took place on September 23. By the close of the night, the organization had raised more than $438,000. The sum is a record for the group's benefit, and it goes toward the work that has defined Rhizome from the start: keeping digital art alive and accessible long after the software and screens it was made for have moved on. For a city that likes to measure an institution by its buildings, Rhizome is a reminder that some of New York's most durable cultural work has no façade at all. It lives on servers, in code, and in the hands of the people who maintain it. Three decades in, that work now has fresh funding behind it.

With reporting from Surface.