{"title": "Adebunmi Gdadebo", "start": "2026-11-10T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An artist's talk in the Talks lecture series, free and open to the public, also accessible online via Zoom. It features Adebunmi Gdadebo, an artist who earned her BFA at the School of Visual Arts and lives and works in Philadelphia. Her multidisciplinary practice explores heritage through historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora, and soil hand-dug from the True Blue Plantation grounds in South Carolina, investigating the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adebunmi-gdadebo-67140/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/adebunmi-gdadebo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5e0eaacc1619d0a6b3d1e86c1e8456f7ed89189f42e0cdaf56a1ed703d42756-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Artists Roundtable: Candace Hill-Montgomery", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A talk in the series The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners hosted by Tamsin Dillon of the School of Visual Arts' MA Curatorial Practice faculty. Its guest is Candace Hill-Montgomery, an American multidisciplinary artist, writer, poet, photographer, and educator whose work spans photography, collage, sculpture, installation, performance, painting, artist books, and weaving, engaging with race, feminism, environmentalism, poverty, political violence, and Black cultural history. She will guide the audience through the trajectory of her practice, from early works built from found objects foraged from torn-down buildings and detritus discovered in unknown towns, painted over and cleaned up to create new built environments, of which sometimes only her photographs remain. The talk looks at how her practice has grown and changed, how vital being an educator has been, and the impact it has on her own work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-artists-roundtable-candace-hill-montgomery-67137/", "official_url": "https://www.macp.sva.edu/events/the-artists-roundtable-candace-hill-montgomery", "image": "https://noky.io/images/36c31c984e0a2aaa1817aba8d76a236259cbfb99fcdbaf313b5d3f32912633a1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Open Session #23: Hosted by Rujuta Rao", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Storefront for Art and Architecture", "address": "Kenmare Street 97, 10012", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://storefront.nyc/shop/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An evening event at an art and architecture space in New York City, part of a series of sessions each hosted by a different artist. The host, Rujuta Rao, is an artist who works across bookmaking, beverage making, garment making, sculpture, and performance, drawing on her training as a bartender and Japanese sake adviser to consider guest-host relations, borders, and migration. For this session she will present a new form called the 'garment-essay,' a wearable publication and performance exploring fermentation as a metaphor for diaspora and transformation. During the performance, her essay will be read from an indigo-dyed garment worn by performer Rebecca Mzengi Corey while feni, a fermented cashew beverage from Goa, is served to the audience, and garments from Rao's clothing line RUGA will be available for browsing afterward.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-session-23-hosted-by-rujuta-rao-56184/", "official_url": "https://storefront.nyc/program/open-session-23-hosted-by-rujuta-rao/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d4bac967bd0ad0f46fd96da0d7d725185eeedd97d8951513a518ee150bea0854-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening Reception for YATTA: Iron + Palm Wine", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. NY", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "literature/poetry", "music/folk"], "description": "An opening reception at Recess for the artist and musician YATTA's Session installation, Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe. Through the musical legacy of Rogie, YATTA explores entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, drawing on palm wine music as a balm for the psychic wounds of the transatlantic slave trade. The evening offers light refreshments, a first look at the installation, and a poetry reading featuring poets from Camille Dungy's 2009 anthology Black Nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine-55299/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/events/614-opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "adaku, part 2: she shivers with it", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $45", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55770", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "adaku, part 2: she shivers with it is a dance-theater work presented by BAM in association with L'Alliance New York's Crossing The Line Festival. It was created by sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and continues a speculative trilogy about one family's fractured ancestral memories. Set in a near-future United States, it follows a young woman taught she has no history worth remembering who begins receiving sudden transmissions, opening a multitude of imaginable futures. Running 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission, the work places Black interiority at the center of an immersive experience at the crossroads of dance, theater, and visual art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adaku-part-2-she-shivers-with-it-51174/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/dance/2026/adaku2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d1960a9a12df5faf2af54f2950a34095c7e9f314d5c5f8c24049bd289f9058a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wangechi Mutu", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Lenfest Center for the Arts", "address": "West 130th Street;West 129th Street 615, 10027 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.leapevents.com/event/wangechi-mutu/pre-sale", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Wangechi Mutu, a visual artist based in Nairobi and Brooklyn, presents recent work spanning film, sculpture, and installation from the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Her talk is part of Speak Now, a new speaker series at Columbia University School of the Arts featuring artists whose work reaches a broad public. Rachel Grace Newman, Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, gives a response, and Sarah Cole, Dean of the School of the Arts, introduces the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/wangechi-mutu-52818/", "official_url": "https://www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2026-events/speak-now-wangechi-mutu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/928aa1b9a39f477d7ac7eee4c61f9970f91e97fe8bbd1215f9925f6cd86b4cba-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. NY", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "music/folk"], "description": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe is a sound and moving-image installation at Recess, presented as part of the Session program. The artist YATTA, a Sierra Leonean-American composer and great-niece of the pioneering Sierra Leonean palm wine musician S.E. Rogie, transforms the gallery into an evolving pre-production environment for the project, which is named after Rogie's song \"Koneh Pelawoe,\" meaning \"Please Open Your Heart.\" The installation pairs a collegiate ethnomusicology building with a Southern and West African veranda, bringing together Rogie's songs, recorded conversations, archival materials, and YATTA's compositions of vocals, kora, and field recordings. Through Rogie's musical legacy, YATTA explores the entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, asking what healing possibilities the sounds of West Africa may hold when the psychic weight of labor, migration, and extraction is set down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe-55301/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/projects/613-iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jeffrey Meris", "start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Jeffrey Meris is a talk by the multidisciplinary artist of that name, part of the Talks series of lectures presented by MFA Fine Arts. Meris, born in 1991 and raised in the Bahamas, makes work that engages the relationship between materiality and larger cultural and social phenomena. His works shown on the event page include the sculpture To the Rising Sun, made of stainless steel and underarm crutches, and X, made of fang, copper-plated steel and pearls. The talk is free and open to the public, with Q&A participation limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending in person; it is also held on Zoom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jeffrey-meris-55733/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/jeffrey-meris", "image": "https://noky.io/images/23ae333cab90a60442b6fc670f08c8cddc0fb720eefcd3b31b0fe6b1fac3480d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Said What I Said: Steve Locke in Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "A gallery conversation in Chelsea between artist Steve Locke and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr, moderated by curator Evan Garza. It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. The discussion explores Locke's interdisciplinary practice and his engagement with portraiture, desire, race, and memory, examining the histories of racial violence, anti-Blackness, and the Western art historical canon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-r-50911/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandergray.com/news/3231-i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e9d2d26d198261cf3bfd188ddce7c05c7d94958da02efae161e071d08cdd6d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Artists Roundtable: Mariana Castillo Deball", "start": "2026-11-10T09:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T10:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/archaeology"], "description": "A talk as part of the Artists Roundtable series, presented online by the MA Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts. It features Mexican interdisciplinary artist Mariana Castillo Deball, whose work examines the relationships between archaeology, anthropology, history, science, philosophy, and contemporary art. Through sculpture, installation, performance, books, and research-based projects, she investigates how objects acquire meaning and how museums, archives, and institutions shape interpretations of the past. She has received numerous international awards, including the Ars Viva Award, Preis der Nationalgalerie, Prix de Rome, and Zurich Art Prize.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-artists-roundtable-mariana-castillo-deball-67139/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/the-artists-roundtable-mariana-castillo-deball-berlin-germany", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d190eeaf5671a266c5a56afcfc72a427c48cbab694c4a77e864b4a4224baffed-2000.webp"}]}