{"title": "Activating the Archive: Michelle Handelman Capsule Collection Launch", "start": "2026-10-28T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/queer"], "description": "A panel discussion marking the launch of Michelle Handelman's Capsule Collection at The Feminist Institute's Digital Archive. Handelman, a filmmaker, visual artist and writer, will be in conversation with Dr. Amber Musser, Jeanne Vaccaro, and Exx Nottage, moderated by Stamatina Gregory. The panel explores how feminist and queer archives can bring historically marginalized artists into the cultural record and intervene in dominant historical narratives. Through their activation, archives become a form of information activism, opening new possibilities for scholarship, public memory, and more equitable futures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/activating-the-archive-michelle-handelman-capsule-collection-53563/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7af54243648b742a0defce5b3984d0688f1ce4ce7393441bf5f74a2fdca54d2c-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society"], "description": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design is an exhibition at Van Alen Institute's Brooklyn space that invites five artists and design teams to respond to the institute's historic archive. Van Alen Institute has spent more than 130 years at the intersection of design ambition and civic life, and its archive of competition boards, jury records, travel logs, and correspondence is one of the most extensive records of American architectural history. Working directly with these materials, the participants ask what the archive reveals about who design has historically served and whom it has erased, through works such as sonic installations summoning uncredited voices and core samples grounding architecture in land history. Visitors are invited to explore the exhibition with curiosity and skepticism, treating the archive as living material to be questioned and reinterpreted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-access-exploring-130-years-of-american-design-57334/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64844e8853810e08d6817a2b007c3c46562ffdf6503ee3d9177bfd96dd15cd41-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Radical Unpresent", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism"], "description": "This is the New York launch of the book The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World (MIT Press), taking the form of a conversation between its author, Gregory Sholette, and the artist and writer Naeem Mohaiemen. Sholette's book examines how artists navigate a collapse of historical time, tracing a rupture through Brexit, Trump, COVID, and the J6 Capitol attack, and arguing that MAGA acts as a \"retro-vanguard\" manufacturing its own imaginary past. Against this, he proposes the \"phantom archive,\" in which artists resist through repair and reenactment, from Belarus protest art to Michael Rakowitz's reconstruction of a destroyed Assyrian artifact. Mohaiemen, whose work on excavating institutional memory is featured in the book, joins for an evening on memory, resistance, and what remains unfinished.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-radical-unpresent-55021/", "official_url": "http://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2291", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a3977df7f7039555c697541f88f912ddf6e822803cc0839507acc201bfe0272-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Soft Spaces: Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/queer"], "description": "\"Soft Spaces: Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu\" is an exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, part of a series of installations featuring works by alumni of the museum's Fellowship. The edition on view is a two-person show by Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu, with the series curated by Chloe Ming, Assistant Curator / Exhibitions Manager. The \"softness\" of the title reflects the artists' experience of queer-centered spaces as providing safety in process, experimentation, and vulnerability. Across the series, more than three dozen artists present digital and media art, painting, photography, filmmaking, performance, and installation, responding to the ever-changing landscape of LGBTQIA+ experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/soft-spaces-heather-marie-scholl-and-eva-wu-53562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b37f7e8745d0bef77924193b190f99cb13d574e9baaeac3887be7bfa6e8d02ef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283991", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A performance presented by grunt gallery at Performance Space 122. Curators Tania Willard and Dana Claxton commissioned a new work by Vance Wright, the gallery's 2026 curatorial fellow, drawing on the gallery's archive and its history with Indigenous performance art. 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It takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art and features the exhibition's curators C. Ondine Chavoya, John D. Murchison Regents Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, and David Evans Frantz, Executive Director of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation. Admission is free with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/curator-talk-queer-spaces-queer-contexts-79194/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b56e0515585abc33d4dd78fe12d0563b94b8ab641e9b01f096ba352d4bb611c3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Women as Witnesses: Photography and the Algerian Revolution", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "International Center of Photography", "address": "Ludlow Street 84, 10002 New York", "price": "$5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/events/262/list?date=2026-11-11T00:00:00-0500&membershipIds=", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/war"], "description": "A panel conversation titled \"Women as Witnesses: Photography and the Algerian Revolution\" taking place in person and online at the International Center of Photography's Library on New York's Lower East Side. It is led by Maura McCreight, PhD, joined by Cynthia Young, Director of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at ICP, and filmmaker Mila Turajlić. The discussion examines women who drove the Algerian Revolution (1954–62) as combatants, nurses, and photographers, with a special focus on Elaine Mokhtefi, an American-born activist and heroine of the revolution, as well as the broader history of war photojournalism and Turajlić's film on Mokhtefi's contributions to the resistance. The panel takes place alongside an exhibition at the Palais de la Culture in Algiers opening December 2026, curated by McCreight and funded by the International Association of Friends of the Algerian Revolution (AIARA), featuring work by American photographer Kathryn Updegraff.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/women-as-witnesses-photography-and-the-algerian-revolution-66663/", "official_url": "https://www.icp.org/events/women-witnesses-photography-and-algerian-revolution", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b82a5f6d55c0aa7bb043f89f2261cb522f8f31477cc03fbe92ea85dcab43158-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Harmony Hammond", "start": "2026-05-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Shelter from the Storm: An Artist's Eye with Stan Allen and Polly Apfelbaum is a group exhibition at the National Academy of Design, including work by Harmony Hammond. Curated collaboratively by architect Stan Allen and visual artist Polly Apfelbaum, a married couple, it draws entirely from the Academy's collection as part of the Artist's Eye series begun in 1992. The exhibition brings together work exploring conflict, memory, and resilience, rethinking the Academy's historic holdings across landscape, abstraction, architecture, figuration, and cityscape. This anniversary edition marks the first co-curation by two National Academicians and the first curated by an architect.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/harmony-hammond-50908/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f292939ab86c16f3b8477579b3b7ec565e196abd3b0f83aeeb3be77e0f9a7c35-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Saya Woolfalk: The WoodsWoman Method", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "nature"], "description": "An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, on view as the first chapter of a multi-year initiative, showing process materials from a new commission alongside related works from the Museum's permanent collection. It centers on artist Saya Woolfalk's WoodsWoman, a mythic botanist-healer who inhabits her 'Empathic Universe,' an imagined utopian future in which humans and nature exist in harmony. Woolfalk applied this lens to the Museum's holding of nearly 2,000 objects, selecting works by artists such as Huma Bhabha, Robert Blackburn, Abigail DeVille, and Martin Wong that explore the cosmos, human-nature relationships, speculative worlds, and collective storytelling. The exhibition, curated in collaboration with Eileen Jeng Lynch, also works as a laboratory, with programming that invites audiences into Woolfalk's creative process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/saya-woolfalk-the-woodswoman-method-51514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71be0b1d8b81334cfebdbdd189b8fae5495167971002e32f2c8e8f51c576e304-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond the Margins: Bronx Museum Teens Activate the Permanent Collection", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in which fourteen New York City high school students present works they curated from the museum's permanent collection, spanning printmaking, photography, painting, and assemblage by eleven artists. The show, Beyond the Margins: Bronx Museum Teens Activate the Permanent Collection, is the outcome of the museum's Teen Summer 2026 program, guided by educators Duneska Michel, Jinette Jimenez, and Madison Green and shaped by three questions: how artists defy convention, experiment with materials, and use their work as resistance. It frames defiance as a sustained practice of surpassing limitations, inviting viewers to consider what it means to push boundaries in everyday life. Comprehensive records of the works on view are available online for the first time as part of the museum's digitization of its collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beyond-the-margins-bronx-museum-teens-activate-the-permanent-51515/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/40690c78fc45594cdb564279cc45b0e46cf07bdd68aa8793974a4dbecdf7fa8c-2000.webp"}]}