{"title": "Art is for the Spirit — Records of the Self", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Paula Cooper Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 534, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "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-records-of-the-self-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": "West 21st Street 534, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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, "tickets_url": "", "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. 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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": "Aperture Loves New York", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An exhibition of photographs presented at Aperture's new home in New York, which includes a bookstore and gallery. Titled Aperture Loves New York, it pays tribute to photographers who have shaped—and been shaped by—the city, bringing together memorable photographs with corresponding Aperture books. Organized by Sarah Meister, Executive Director, it features photographs by more than twenty artists, including Carrie Mae Weems alongside Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Stephen Shore and others. 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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/claes-oldenburg-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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "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, "tickets_url": "", "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/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", "tickets_url": "https://transact.whitney.org/art-you-gallery-conversations", "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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "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": "Donald Moffett", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "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", "history/us"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational writings, Common Sense and The American Crisis, with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Donald Moffett, and Maynard Monrow. Donald Moffett contributes a newly commissioned text-based work using graphic design strategies to deliver the message that power lies with us. As 250 years ago, the country navigates deep division, and the exhibition presents contemporary art as offering hope, inspiration, and momentum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/donald-moffett-50912/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82926d8d53a2a2e39799b64bf9dd1628a0da5444c084f8eec898db4e8c12a086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Author Talk with Hettie Judah", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Stand4 Gallery and Community Center", "address": "78th Street 414, 11209 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "14.64", "price_to": "14.64", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-enter-the-art-world-after-tickets-2003944603253?aff=ebdsshios&sg=39071ed1a609fb330882651154f6ebaa2b5221fdad92c62abe4cde7833fa5ce984727752e83278ab0cbd26c3c0aa589d1b5eb408a5ae8b40eb22a9211f849d7326b2c425c533743bb9b1877b", "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": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "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"}, {"title": "Liz Deschenes in Guild & Greyshkul", "start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Miguel Abreu Gallery", "address": "Orchard Street 36, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Guild & Greyshkul is a group exhibition about the artist-run gallery of the same name, which operated in New York City from 2003 to 2009 and bridged a shared studio space and a commercial gallery. It presents works by over 70 artists, reflecting past and emerging models of creative exchange and collaboration among an intergenerational cohort. The exhibition is organized by Anya Kielar, Johannes VanDerBeek, and Sara VanDerBeek, the gallery's three founders, in cooperation with Adriana Farmiga and Yuri Masnyj, deans at The Cooper Union School of Art. A related publication and public program explore the ongoing relevance of artist-run spaces, collective practice, and alternative pedagogies as models for today's artists and institutions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/liz-deschenes-in-guild-greyshkul-53954/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec37d27e8c9d348e3cd6247fe25d0a53e42b77d9ab199f9189eadcab8df87fe5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "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", "tickets_url": "", "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. 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Featuring work by ten artists including Erin Butler, Linda Butti, and Mary Campbell, it explores the studio as a generative space where artists work near one another across space, time, and relationship. The show is defined not by a shared aesthetic but by a condition of closeness, through which individual practices develop, intersect, and inform one another.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/proximity-exhibition-55937/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/523ccf568210bcf88f87438648a8747235bdc834098928f93ead6b4532623bb2-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fall Residency Exhibition: Artist Talks & Reception", "start": "2026-11-07T07:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Building 9, Nolan Park", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://secure.givelively.org/event/institute-for-public-architectire/2026-ipa-fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The Institute for Public Architecture marks the culmination of its 2026 Fall Independent Project Residency with a full house activation on Governors Island, featuring work by Beth Ferguson, Tosin Omolola, Gabriel Gonzalez Depalo, Really Not Really (Stephanie Lee Yeung and Hermano Luz Rodrigues), Susan Isawi, and Visiting Fellow Massimiliano Malagò. The day includes public viewing hours, a performance lecture by Gabriel Gonzalez Depalo titled Pagqank Is Burning, artist talks beginning with welcome remarks by residency director Deborah Garcia, and a closing reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception-52856/", "official_url": "https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/events/fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception", "image": ""}]}