{"title": "An Archival Séance with Marina Otero Verzier", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history/archives"], "description": "An evening talk at the Van Alen Institute styled as a séance, staged as part of its fall exhibition Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design. Exhibition participants — Annie Barrett, Daniel Pittman, Paula Vilaplana de Miguel, Friends Making Work, and Gillian Waldo — present materials from Van Alen's archive through a performance of light and shadow. Moderator Marina Otero Verzier and respondent Mark Wasiuta guide the audience through the hidden histories these materials represent and exclude, exploring how scholars, historians, and critics reinterpret official architectural archives. The séance format draws on Paula Vilaplana de Miguel's research into the 19th-century North American Spiritualist movement, and an interpretation of 'the psychic cabinet' from the exhibition serves as the stage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-archival-seance-with-marina-otero-verzier-57337/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2fbf8b53a04b4e15cd24376fe929e00101c6905d51fed8d7f09611a7c3742b38-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "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": "Opening night performance | Monobloc Harp by Dan Ortiz Leizman", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-night-performance-monobloc-harp-by-dan-ortiz-leizman-tickets-2002747181733?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An opening night performance and reception for the group exhibition 'Haunted by Light'. Artist Dan Ortiz Leizman turns the mundane monobloc chair into a string instrument, playing ephemeral sounds described as 'apocalyptic folk music' that navigate the nostalgia and personal memories marked on the chair. The exhibition gathers photoreactive media such as cyanotypes, autoradiographs, lumen photography, plant ashes in glass sculptures, and audiovisual environments for collective mourning. RSVP is free but strongly encouraged; light refreshments will be served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-night-performance-monobloc-harp-by-dan-ortiz-leizman-56199/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/xax7gq0vopa6lp3gfd8bkexrp0u1jw", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c63b359262e961b198da9323c7b01a3f61046fb4374698322a7b63841a47959-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-27T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Center for Architecture", "address": "LaGuardia Place 546", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/racism"], "description": "Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design is an exhibition by and about the Dark Matter U network, the first BIPOC-led transdisciplinary network in the built environment. It was initiated after the 2020 movement for Black Lives to enact systemic change across the design fields, changing how we gather, teach, and produce design. The show is curated in three parts: recording past DMU work, documenting current efforts, and a provocation for the future. It is curated and produced by a Dark Matter U network team, co-led by Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Jerome Haferd, and Sophie Weston Chien.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dark-matter-u-justice-pedagogy-design-51771/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af5462535782d1e55ca5d0c599e99fe6604d19b83bf4bdb94d66665abb2c77bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Culture of Place", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism"], "description": "Culture of Place is a public conversation on how architecture can support community organizations that give people places to gather and a voice in their neighborhoods' futures. It is presented by the Van Alen Institute, an architecture and design nonprofit based in Gowanus, Brooklyn, through its Van Alen Vanguard network of emerging design leaders. Architect Farida Abu-Bakare joins designer, artist, and educator Curry J. Hackett and architect Tura Cousins Wilson of the Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA) to explore how design can sustain local cultural life while responding to changing community needs. Drawing on their practices and perspectives on Black cultural memory, they will examine what architects can learn from people already doing the work of building community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/culture-of-place-57339/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4365a4c136c0c0b94778d78397882a3c6b0f222b9a9bbec42cf06d31d07622bb-1200.webp"}, {"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. The evening includes a reception and ends with a book signing, with copies available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-54344/", "official_url": "https://www.nysid.edu/events-calendar/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller", "image": "https://noky.io/images/146338c651cf249f12c250a75849e6bed51fc8b9d89d3e776df1b646927829a4-1200.webp"}]}