{"title": "Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$15/$10", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=300", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts", "history"], "description": "A lecture by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, held in the Members' Room and online at The New York Society Library. She presents her new book 'Designing the Gilded Age', the catalog for an exhibition opening at The Met in mid-October and closing in early February. The book presents 150 rarely seen design drawings from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany, revealing the artistry behind his iconic stained-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, and interiors. It also highlights the contributions of other designers, including women and immigrants, whose identities have been subsumed under the Tiffany name.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/alice-cooney-frelinghuysen-designing-the-gilded-age-drawings-79656/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/louis-comfort-tiffany-design-drawings", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19d26317a388bbcbaac2357ecaec04016d9dc67604ead147d435b0ff65542d61-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "17.35", "price_to": "17.35", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-tickets-2002836723555?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An evening conversation on the American furniture movement, held at the New York School of Interior Design. Curators Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht will interview Dennis Miller, author of the book Art + Furniture: An Oral History of the American Furniture Movement, published by Abbeville Press. The book grew out of an oral history project at the school's archives and tells the movement's story through its protagonists' words, with contemporary and archival photography. 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It celebrates Cooper Hewitt's 50th anniversary and the 1978 Embellishments Series, in which 150 painters, graphic artists, designers, and public personalities made fanciful modifications of a line drawing of the Carnegie Mansion's south facade. Susan Brown, Associate Curator of Textiles, and Mae Colburn, a weaver and writer who works closely with Hernmarck, meet visitors by the fireplace. Alexandra Hodkowski and Michelle Millar Fisher provide a warm welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/at-the-hearth-a-close-look-at-helena-hernmarcks-tapestry-52197/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/at-the-hearth-a-close-look-at-helena-hernmarcks-tapestry-11-04-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ddf8b53021ecdc54717416d4c68685cf95fbd16497636fb70693f40adb376def-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art + Furniture: Designers, Makers, and Advocates", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "Art + Furniture: Designers, Makers, and Advocates is an exhibition at the New York School of Interior Design Gallery running from September 25, 2026, through April 2, 2027. 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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": "Dialogues on Design: Ben Pentreath", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "32.90", "price_to": "32.90", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dialogues-on-design-ben-pentreath-tickets-1993940866808", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "Dialogues on Design is a talk series at the New York School of Interior Design. 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Design writer Dung Ngo, author of Knife Fork Spoon: Modernist Cutlery 1900-2025 and collector of modern flatware, discusses how designers from Gio Ponti to Zaha Hadid rethought the place setting, in conversation moderated by Emily Orr, Associate Curator and Acting Head of Product Design and Decorative Arts. The program is presented in conjunction with Design Across Time: Exploring the Smithsonian's Design Collection and includes an optional audience Q&A. It takes place in the museum's wheelchair-accessible Lecture Room with live CART captioning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/from-the-spoon-to-the-city-exploring-modernist-flatware-with-52199/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/from-the-spoon-to-the-city-exploring-modernist-flatware-with-dung-ngo-11-10-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8400d8c596e642077be7113e0e93856ba360f610ee4aa3eac44a627014ef50d6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dialogue and Discourse: Jewish Patronage of the Wiener Werkstätte", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "$14 General; $10 Students, Seniors, and Jewish Museum members", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.thejm.org/events/01a03eef-72fd-ee1f-9443-d71d0f28d173", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design", "history/jewish-history"], "description": "A talk at the Jewish Museum in its Scheuer Auditorium, part of the Dialogue and Discourse series and the Gertrude and David Fogelson Lecture. It is a conversation between Elana Shapira, a cultural and design historian and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Lisa Silverman, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. They will discuss the role of Jewish women and patrons in supporting the growth and success of the Wiener Werkstätte from its founding in turn of the century Austria, in connection with the museum's special exhibition \"Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte.\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dialogue-and-discourse-jewish-patronage-of-the-wiener-werkst-56635/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110526-wotww-panel/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9424d3c01c83eca8c3af4a614f169f71b1b8769571a475ffc28807983952ecd9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime", "start": "2026-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "history/world-war"], "description": "\"Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime\" is an exhibition of book-related posters from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Germany printed during the World Wars. It is curated by Molly Manning, an author, historian, and associate professor of law at New York Law School, with exhibition design by Randee Ballinger. It shows how nations relied on public book donations and fundraising to supply soldiers with reading material, and how books became a symbol of freedom and democracy. It takes about 20 minutes to visit, is rated G, and is located in Poster House's Lower Level Hallways.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/reading-under-fire-arming-minds-hearts-during-wartime-54902/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b971fa932fa1133dadc5f147a4746deb60d7cceae7a72ae801556ad3c8448915-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ASL Studio Afternoon: Clay Sculptures", "start": "2026-11-08T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "Free of charge, advance reservation required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.thejm.org/events/01a03aad-3714-8448-e931-f348e80b508a", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "ASL Studio Afternoon: Clay Sculptures is a clay sculpture workshop for participants in the ASL Community at the Jewish Museum. Visitors will explore the exhibition 'Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte' and create their own works inspired by the sculptures on view. The workshop is led by artist Youmee Lee, a Korean American artist whose work draws on Asian folklore and American Sign Language poetry. All Access Programs are free of charge and require advance reservation; ASL students will not be admitted and no voice interpretation will be provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asl-studio-afternoon-clay-sculptures-75692/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110826-asl-studio-afternoon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e05f82760b86e04de25a4a89bb8f6e339908329665e57f44d5d8d9a9e6622959-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Book Celebration: The Theatre of Drawing", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Martin E. 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The new volume marks PAJ Publications' 50th year of publishing, joining 160 other titles since the press's founding in 1976.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-celebration-the-theatre-of-drawing-53859/", "official_url": "https://www.thesegalcenter.org/event-details/book-celebration-the-theatre-of-drawing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/620d04b88ef89e6e5a18f8513ba7e12a98ec45418c5a5a27115146b70f4e5943-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Whitney Signs: Roy Lichtenstein and Screenprinting Workshop", "start": "2026-11-07T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://transact.whitney.org/ws-roy-lichtenstein-and-screenprinting-workshop", "category": "tours", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "An in-person ASL tour of the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New followed by a screenprinting workshop, with a wine and cheese reception afterward. The tour is led by Deaf educator Gina Marciona, and the workshop is run with Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a co-operative printmaking workspace open to artists of every skill level. The program is Deaf-priority; advance registration is required and it is not open to ASL students. Participants meet in the Hearst Artspace on Floor 3.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/whitney-signs-roy-lichtenstein-and-screenprinting-workshop-75753/", "official_url": "https://whitney.org/events/whitney-signs-lichtenstein", "image": ""}, {"title": "Tour the Building with a Docent, October (2-4 PM on the half hour)", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; drop in", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Escape the hustle and bustle of the city and step into history on a docent-led tour of the Library's landmark 1917 building, exploring the gallery and its architectural wonders. 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The publication examines the pursuit of equity in architecture and design education in the United States amid widening political divides around race and class. Contributors to the book and leaders of local enrichment programs will take stock of this work and consider where more equitable pathways into architecture and design might go next.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-launch-junior-architects-57340/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b925b5790ffb8c99ae695da7136658ae90d30f1d3838cb211cc8fb5abbe91432-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte", "start": "2026-07-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.thejm.org/events/9ec9c046-870e-49ea-3d8d-636fd0e85c31", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "An exhibition of more than 200 objects by some 30 Jewish women artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, the multidisciplinary Viennese collective active from 1903 to 1932. It sheds light on the role Jewish women played as artists, designers, patrons, and tastemakers shaping modernist aesthetics in early 20th-century Vienna and beyond, and marks the first in-depth presentation of these women. Special emphasis is placed on Vally Wieselthier, in ceramics, and Felice Rix-Ueno, in textile design. The show was organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, in cooperation with MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, and is curated by Kristina Parsons with curatorial consultancy by Anne-Katrin Rossberg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/modernity-and-opulence-women-of-the-wiener-werkstatte-56631/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/12323029b3daba95b850037a71ee888cd336ae2d342f2747b88bb1313d6dd3df-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz", "start": "2026-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Studio Museum In Harlem", "address": "West 125th Street 144, 10027", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An exhibition bringing together a selection of works from the historic gift of Peggy Cooper Cafritz's art collection to the Studio Museum in Harlem, running through February 28, 2027. Cafritz (1947–2018), an arts patron, educator, and civil rights activist who cofounded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, bequeathed the majority of her collection to the museum. Her bequest included over four hundred works by more than two hundred artists of African descent, spanning paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper. This is the first exhibition to tell a story of Cafritz as an art collector, organized by curator Connie H. Choi and curatorial assistant Kiki Teshome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dreams-of-this-future-the-collection-of-peggy-cooper-cafritz-53893/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67180f9368199293b0017c080175ce6483022d6e107f04ed540b02a028f1ce22-2000.webp"}]}