{"title": "Art is for the Spirit", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Paula Cooper Gallery", "address": "521 West 21st Street", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "\"Art is for the Spirit: Records of the Self\" is a group exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery at 521 West 21st Street, with an opening reception on October 29 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Organized by Ivy Shapiro, it brings together work by Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Kazuko Miyamoto, Ree Morton, Elizabeth Murray, and Joel Shapiro. The exhibition explores the home and autobiography as tools for grounding the self, and underlines the interrelated lives of Paula Cooper, her artists and their families in the New York art world of the 1970s and beyond. Anchored in Shapiro's memories of her childhood, it includes works such as Shapiro's fingerprint drawings and house sculptures, Bartlett's dotted paintings, Gober's dollhouses, Hammons's body prints, Miyamoto's woven forms, and Morton's narrative drawings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-is-for-the-spirit-54711/", "official_url": "https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/art-is-for-the-spirit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/57ebec71d2639a044ad3298afe85d173a2bfbba5d17c4824f771bfb5d46d362d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Paula Cooper Gallery", "address": "521 West 21st Street", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Open House Celebrating Hard Art, Masao Gozu, New York Fashion at PS1, and Fred Wilson", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A free, all-ages open house day of programs and activities inspired by MoMA PS1's new exhibitions, with family workshops, artist talks, a sound bath, a makers market, and a 50th-anniversary stoop sale. Organized by MoMA PS1, it celebrates the opening of Hard Art, an exhibition on the legacy of abstraction by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today; a family workshop builds window-objects inspired by Masao Gozu: Windows and Bars; talks consider the history of the fashion exhibition New York Fashion at PS1, 1980–1984; and Howardena Pindell and James Little join director Connie Butler to revisit PS1's Afro-American Abstraction (1980). The day also includes movement sessions with Healspace and a Makers Market with artists from The Fortune Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-house-celebrating-hard-art-masao-gozu-new-york-fashion-81367/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/events/879-open-house", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5d7d330dd0010b59afc2bd73109d6e55fb83c5194520998e346b692cb7b53ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening Reception · Solo Exhibitions", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-17T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Flux IV", "address": "56-21 2nd St, Long Island City, NY", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Flux IV hosts the opening reception of two solo exhibitions. Ethan Shoshan's 'For Those Without A Tribe' centers on large-scale hooked rugs depicting the rooms and objects of the Lower Manhattan building on Greenwich Street where he lived alongside artist Geoffrey Hendricks and archivist Sur Rodney (Sur) for almost two decades, a social experiment in intergenerational living. Wallace Dos Santos's 'Cherry Blossom Girl' features sculpturally framed paintings incorporating paper pulp made from recycled everyday waste, reflecting on the nostalgia and sweetness of the artist's childhood in New York City and how a place becomes imbricated with the people, memories, architectural details, and recurrent encounters that shape our lives. Shoshan is a New York-based artist, activist, curator, writer, and social ecologist whose work transforms personal and collective histories into acts of connection, while Dos Santos, a Brazilian-American artist born and raised in Brooklyn, works in painting, papermaking, and sculpture to explore architectural and psychedelic realms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-reception-solo-exhibitions-83608/", "official_url": "https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-reception-%c2%b7-for-those-without-a-tribe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/149c0da4526e3d73aef75fed3b6c48386511d1d4b3d3552e66548c79bd7b6d36-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tools of Worship", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Petzel Gallery", "address": "West 25th Street 520, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "\"Tools of Worship\" is a solo exhibition by artist Tschabalala Self at Petzel Gallery, her first with the gallery and her first New York gallery show since 2020. It brings together new paintings and her first sculptural works in concrete, continuing her investigation of the human figure as both object and site of exchange through which meaning, desire, memory, and belief circulate. Her figures are built from found and repurposed textiles and conceived as characters in a theatrical world, with identity treated as a mutable material rather than a fixed fact. The exhibition proposes that both art and the human body are conduits of reverence and projection, asking what it means to encounter an artwork as something alive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tools-of-worship-54873/", "official_url": "https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/tschabalala-self2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec7976b783d16ef6dc012788b61e39618872e838fca6043fbddf8ac064673dac-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Westwood Gallery", "address": "Bowery 261, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit\" is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Westwood Gallery NYC. Planned with the artist and curated by James Cavello, it is the first presentation of his work following his passing in June 2026. Its centerpiece is \"Full Circle\" (2023), an eleven-panel mixed-media installation selected by MTA Arts & Design for a glass art commission at the Jamaica Bus Depot in Queens, shown alongside seventeen recent works from the final years of his life. Through vibrant abstraction, layered textiles such as Kente cloth and batiks, and expressive mark-making, Simmons explores ancestry, identity, memory, and belonging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/danny-simmons-the-journey-of-spirit-67465/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af53fe2eaaecd2a93b43f285be4994897fc7f1f93eb745512734f8fe903614e5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "PROXIMITY In Place: A Conversation with the Artists", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, Main Hall Gallery, Building C", "address": "", "price": "$10 & Under", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "PROXIMITY In Place: A Conversation with the Artists is a salon-style afternoon in which visitors move through the PROXIMITY exhibition, listen to informal conversations, and ask questions. The participating artists of PROXIMITY, the fall exhibition at the Newhouse Center, will gather throughout the exhibition to discuss their practices, the spaces in which they work, and the connections that emerge between artists and artworks. The exhibition features work by Erin Butler, Linda Butti, Mary Campbell, Lisa Dahl, Griselda Healy, Craig Manister, Ann Marie McDonnell, Mike Shane, Gayle Tanaka, and Martha Trivizas. Gallery admission is included at no additional cost.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/proximity-in-place-a-conversation-with-the-artists-77027/", "official_url": "https://snug-harbor.org/event/proximity-in-place-a-conversation-with-the-artists/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/523ccf568210bcf88f87438648a8747235bdc834098928f93ead6b4532623bb2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Six Themes", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Paula Cooper Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 534, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "\"Claes Oldenburg: Six Themes\" is an exhibition of sculpture, drawings and prints at a New York gallery. It is presented by the Estate of Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen and Paula Cooper Gallery, revisiting a landmark 1975 survey organized by Martin Friedman for the Walker Art Center. The show gathers works on six themes the artist pursued in many materials and scales: Geometric Mouse, Three-Way Plug, Fagends, Clothespin, Typewriter Eraser and Standing Mitt with Ball. It is the first exhibition devoted to this body of work in fifty years and includes an illustrated brochure with a text by David Platzker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/six-themes-54712/", "official_url": "https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/claes-oldenburg", "image": "https://noky.io/images/634c8b8d76cf44c118fdadca7c957483e05516f90ea3a263aca5c18cb44b8a3a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Like everything alive that we try to hold forever", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pratt Manhattan Gallery", "address": "144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art"], "description": "\"Like everything alive that we try to hold forever\" is an art exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, an exhibition space on 14th Street in New York City. Curated by Elizabeth Diggon, Naomi Potter, and Shauna Thompson, it brings together seven artists: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Diane Borsato, Stephanie Dinkins, Bridget Moser, Sondra Perry, and Miya Turnbull. The works explore how human bodies exist in relation to non-human objects and how the collection, consumption, and contextualization of these objects shape our understanding of self and others. Organized by Esker Foundation and toured by Independent Curators International, the show uses objects and avatars to examine the identities and biases embedded in science, technology, and museum collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/like-everything-alive-that-we-try-to-hold-forever-54997/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb835cb6ffe02570170039fe74401004b5970d28503aee9cbd9af624de5a7826-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Frances Stark, Vivian Suter in: The Architect & The Housewife", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-05-09T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An international group exhibition about who gets to design 'the house' and who takes care of it, bringing together contemporary artists whose work considers maintaining an artistic practice amid everyday chores. It takes its title from Frances Stark's 1999 publication 'The Architect & The Housewife', in which she uses the figures of the architect and the housewife to examine power relations in the art world and daily life. Curated by Roos Gortzak and Clare Molloy, it features artists including Sol Calero, Zaha Hadid, Alessandro Mendini, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Vivian Suter and Nicole Wermers. The exhibition also marks the start of a process in which the Groninger Museum further examines its own history and collection, looking back to its postmodern building and experimental 1990s course while looking ahead to urgent questions of the twenty-first century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/frances-stark-vivian-suter-in-the-architect-the-housewife-66529/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/745278b4d60e05b71021ad31790005a80caf6071573eb7efd85acfcd96e1278d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art + You", "start": "2026-11-06T17:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Art + You is a gallery gathering at the Whitney Museum where younger adults share thoughts on artworks through close looking and conversation, taking place on Floor 8. Facilitated by museum educator and Brooklyn-based artist Jacqueline Cedar, it explores the exhibition 'The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans' through discussion and drawing. Participants consider how artists draw inspiration from memory, nature and the subconscious, then experiment with automatic drawing, color and shape to make their own works. The event is free with limited capacity, and advance registration is encouraged, though drop-ins with Free Friday Night admission are welcome space-pending.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-you-75752/", "official_url": "https://whitney.org/events/art-and-you-nov2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea7d39528b8ff53f629674ae24794bb83b8fcc6fd508df2351b2fb6f0a213c7e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "To My Best Friend", "start": "2026-01-23T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/art-collection"], "description": "An exhibition of works from the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, presented in the Kim and Jim Pallotta Gallery. It draws on more than 50 artworks that longtime friends and supporters Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté helped bring into the ICA Collection, highlighting formal and material experimentation by artists including Laura Owens, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Olga de Amaral, and Sarah Sze, and is organized by Erika Umali, Curator of Collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/to-my-best-friend-66851/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19f2d15ba5c0054a69c0eafe188997f34a0400c9f78cbe41c5e6cf06db524c22-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hard Art", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting", "history/black-history"], "description": "Hard Art is a major group exhibition at MoMA PS1 that examines the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. Presented by MoMA PS1, it features over forty artists, juxtaposing historical paintings by practitioners who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices that incorporate sculpture, video, sound, and painting. Organized thematically, the show traces the legacy of three generations of artists including Frank Bowling, Mark Bradford, Peter Bradley, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, Melvin Edwards, Jennie C. Jones, Joe Overstreet, and Raymond Saunders, alongside new and recent works by Aria Dean, Torkwase Dyson, Nikita Gale, Suzanne Jackson, Rindon Johnson, Caroline Kent, Carolyn Lazard, Eric N. Mack, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and SoiL Thornton. Its title derives from Bradley’s description of The DeLuxe Show, and the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hard-art-107897/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/744-hard-art", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60b4bea10ca3d34be83825a35d42f613d7e9e433c2f0ef190de875aa5bfa9c35-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Shelter from the Storm: An Artist's Eye with Stan Allen and Polly Apfelbaum", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-16T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "National Academy of Design", "address": "West 26th Street 519, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "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, on view from September 18, 2026 to January 16, 2027. It is a collaborative curatorial project by architect Stan Allen and visual artist Polly Apfelbaum, a married couple selected by the Academy's Exhibition Committee for their complementary ways of thinking and making. Part of the Academy's ongoing Artist's Eye series begun in 1992, it is the first edition since 2013, the first co-curated by two National Academicians, the first curated by an architect, and the first collection-only show of this scale since the Chelsea galleries opened in 2023. The exhibition brings together works from the Academy's collection that explore conflict, memory, and resilience, rethinking its historic holdings through the curators' practices and highlighting connections across landscape, abstraction, architecture, figuration, and cityscape.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shelter-from-the-storm-an-artists-eye-with-stan-allen-and-po-107886/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Author Talk with Hettie Judah", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Stand4 Gallery and Community Center", "address": "78th Street 414, 11209 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "14.64", "price_to": "14.64", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "literature"], "description": "An 'After Session' author talk with Hettie Judah at Stand4 Gallery, held alongside the exhibition 'And I am aware of my heart, it opens and closes'. Mother Creatrix Collective artists open with short presentations on their work in the show, including entering or reentering the art world after becoming caregivers. Hettie Judah then leads an open, hour-long conversation with questions about the art world, her work, and navigating a creative life. She will sell and sign copies of her new book, 'How to Enter the Art World... AFTER a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, leaving it in disgust', and refreshments follow.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/author-talk-with-hettie-judah-79604/", "official_url": "https://www.mothercreatrixcollective.com/events/author-talk-with-hettie-judah", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f4451de70eca7a0b331b5d249d5f5226b2bad39b97bc710aef862936ddf9d4b-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, "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"}, {"title": "Opening Reception · By Way Of", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flux Factory", "address": "29th Street 39-31", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An opening reception for By Way Of, a group exhibition of new work. The Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Gallery presents it with the inaugural cohort of the Regional Artist Mobility Program, a residency exchange between Flux Factory and CIA in Northeast Ohio. The exhibition's title nods to the circuitous paths makers take, each artist working through something that already exists, such as a melting shoe, reenactment, material resistance or Saturday morning cartoons. The cohort includes Rachel Ferber, Mike Meier, Itala Aguilera and Li-Ming Hu, with remarks at 6:00 pm followed by a one-night-only live performance by Aguilera at 6:15 pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-reception-by-way-of-66487/", "official_url": "https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-reception-%c2%b7-by-way-of/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/29de86ed41bd009dcd0fca98f738901645bec29998bbe637e6173f4d44fdd039-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alex Katz, David Salle in: Clever, Quick, Magnetic: The Art of Witty Banter", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition of paintings exploring how works can feel connected even when they appear visually distinct, and whether a painting can possess something akin to a personality. It is presented by Oklahoma Contemporary and curated by David Salle, a painter who helped define the postmodern sensibility in painting. The show features works by artists including Amy Sillman, Joe Bradley, Cecily Brown, Josh Smith and Rosa Loy. Admission is free and tickets are not required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/alex-katz-david-salle-in-clever-quick-magnetic-the-art-of-wi-66535/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14e85d5ec3a071617e90eca48cc0da0a8eab2432d8170861341ec2484659e4a5-2000.webp"}]}