{"title": "Arthur Jafa", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://art-ap.passes.jp/user/e/ack2026/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "film/documentary"], "description": "A talk titled 'In Praise of Shadows: An Aesthetics of Rendition — Arthur Jafa on Free Association', running 3pm−4:30pm. It brings together American artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa, whose work has been shown at institutions such as Fondazione Prada in Venice and the New Museum in New York, and Mitsuharu Kurokawa, President of the historic Japanese confectionery Toraya, moderated by art producer Yamashita Yukako. Taking the 'aesthetics of shadow' from Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows as a point of departure, it explores Jafa's creative trajectory and his inquiry into the multilayered history of Black culture through moving images, music and other forms of expression. The conversation also delves into the philosophy of light and shadow in Japanese culture and Jafa's editing techniques that collage images beyond their original contexts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/arthur-jafa-66504/", "official_url": "https://a-c-k.jp/en/talks/arthur-jafa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aa2b757568d248dd42e6a5be865a521f362b6556cd0bb625cc4dcb18e9415bd0-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://chrysler.org/visit/museum-shop/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "society/black-culture"], "description": "\"Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death\" is an acclaimed seven-and-a-half-minute video work shown as an exhibition. It was made by visual artist, cinematographer, and film director Arthur Jafa, an American born in 1960. The video condenses the history and lived experience of Black life in the United States into a rapid, emotionally charged montage set to Kanye West's gospel-inflected track \"Ultralight Beam.\" Combining found footage from films, news broadcasts, viral videos, and historical archives with Jafa's own material, it juxtaposes joy, creativity, and Black cultural achievement with documentation of violence and oppression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-66508/", "official_url": "https://chrysler.org/exhibition/arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/adc8aac1e039ca1193b1dfdfc35799dec0ac7f0e1ca80dc526b96dcacc040c7f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "AURA", "start": "2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "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/art-collection"], "description": "AURA is an exhibition bringing together works from a private collection, shown at Gladstone Gallery on West 21st Street in New York. Drawn entirely from the AMA Collection, it unfolds through shifting tensions between material and immaterial, between what is seen and what is sensed. It features works by artists including Arthur Jafa, Charles Ray, Christopher Wool, Richard Serra, Laura Owens, and Jenny Saville, alongside a work by Ed Ruscha conceived for AMA Venezia. The show invites visitors to slow down and look closely, letting vision become a physical, emotional, and mental experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aura-66556/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0eaa44a19b1e7ed61838921f68b89524c23d71716cccf2d0865fbf7be013fab-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": "Performance Lecture: Jason Wee on Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/gender"], "description": "A performance lecture opening the exhibition PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee. Artist Jason Wee explores the history of photographer Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima's collaboration on the photo series Ordeal by Roses. Through a visual presentation, he considers how props, bodies, and performance were used to construct and complicate Mishima's self-made mythology, reflecting on masculinity, desire, and imperial imagination.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/performance-lecture-jason-wee-on-eikoh-hosoe-and-yukio-mishi-53566/", "official_url": "https://secure.qgiv.com/for/leslie-lohmanmuseum/event/jasonwee/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c68ea7f8352fc8f039bc0657664da1e9163bde2eb9fb7f18abda1989a5c6ac8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "In Conversation: Derek Fordjour and Katy Siegel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "The FLAG Art Foundation", "address": "West 25th Street 545, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "The artist Derek Fordjour sits down for a public conversation with Katy Siegel, a professor and curator at Stony Brook University. The talk marks the exhibition 'Spotlight: Derek Fordjour', which features a new work by the artist alongside a commissioned text by journalist and author Donovan X. Ramsey. The conversation is part of the Foundation's Spotlight series, pairing new artworks with commissioned writing to create dialogues between visual art and authors, critics, and scholars. The discussion starts half an hour after the event opens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour-and-katy-siegel-56577/", "official_url": "https://www.flagartfoundation.org/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a335b845ec19f51ba3b214373e0d6bad4099accd0385f0fcf4a70189effe431f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "AURA", "start": "2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "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": "AURA is an exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery drawn entirely from the AMA Collection, bringing together works by artists including Ed Ruscha, Arthur Jafa, Charles Ray, Christopher Wool, Richard Serra, Laura Owens, and Jenny Saville. It places works and presences in relation, where art emerges as intensity, perception, and shared experience. A significant work by Ed Ruscha, conceived for AMA Venezia, bridges Venice, U.S.A. and Venezia, Italy. Visitors are invited to slow down and look closely, letting vision become a physical, emotional, and mental experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aura-66852/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0eaa44a19b1e7ed61838921f68b89524c23d71716cccf2d0865fbf7be013fab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$20 Early Bird (first 100 tickets), $30 General Admission, plus NY sales tax (8.875%), valid for bot", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/death"], "description": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death is a two-day festival at RESOBOX that brings together artists, thinkers, and makers from Japan and New York to explore life through the lens of death. It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. No knowledge of Japanese is needed and all are welcome, whatever their beliefs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-the-art-of-japanese-life-and-death-55326/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/355990fa568d46df2b8aaebf4277de9b3ace42282b135df4b2bd6b5208a2fd53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tremaine Emory: Denim Tears From the Pool of Black Genius", "start": "2026-09-14T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/fashion"], "description": "An exhibition titled “Denim Tears From the Pool of Black Genius” presents the creative practice of Tremaine Emory, shown as his first solo exhibition and retrospective. It places his pieces alongside works by artists who inspired him, among them Arthur Jafa, Hank Willis Thomas, and Hammons. The curation underscores the breadth of Emory’s references, and that his fashion output was always designed to be in conversation with the culture at large.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tremaine-emory-denim-tears-from-the-pool-of-black-genius-66530/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "An Economy of Means: Contemporary Artists on Minimalism", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Print Center New York", "address": "West 24th Street 535, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A public conversation titled 'An Economy of Means: Contemporary Artists on Minimalism' at Print Center New York. It is organized by Brooklyn-based artist Mira Dayal, whose solo presentation 'Nets' is on view in the Leslie and Johanna Garfield Lobby, and brings together Dayal, Matt Keegan, and SR Lejeune. The speakers are artists who engage with legacies of Minimalism while working between sculpture and conceptual uses of print. Each will share how their work draws on specific and inherited structures while exploring new uses of form and material.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-economy-of-means-contemporary-artists-on-minimalism-55011/", "official_url": "https://www.printcenternewyork.org/public-programs/mira-dayal-contemporary-artists-on-minimalism", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e58130ec0ba74a4c868b8b7003c269a204234df44885bc30e0d6d6ef702e473f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985", "start": "2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://10432.blackbaudhosting.com/10432/tickets?tab=3&txobjid=ce23ab70-3780-425c-af6b-69b587dc0111", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/black-history"], "description": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 is an exhibition on the role photography played in shaping a distinctly Black artistic and cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, it is curated by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis, and overseen at the Mississippi Museum of Art by Kaegan Sparks. Through works by over 100 artists, it shows the medium's versatility as art, design, organizing tool, and community builder. From Kwame Brathwaite's fashion photography to Gordon Parks's photojournalism, it reveals how studio and street photographers, designers, activists, and community organizers used photography to document, imagine, and transform Black life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photography-and-the-black-arts-movement-19551985-66542/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fabd552951a38ecc401d93b1e2a1434a68e1aee6a97f5da1d1ea57e9a413ab9c-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": "New Social Environment: SR Lejeune & Joshua Chee Sanford", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An online conversation in The Brooklyn Rail's talk series, held via Zoom. Artist SR Lejeune speaks with Rail contributor Joshua Chee Sanford, a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. The talk accompanies Lejeune's exhibition \"Hold me up,\" on view at HESSE FLATOW through December 5, 2026. Registration is through a link.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-social-environment-sr-lejeune-joshua-chee-sanford-53013/", "official_url": "https://brooklynrail.org/event/2026/11/03/sr-lejeune/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/188e10ad2057bbac172ca6598c69ac118cd98a2863c8508bd7e07e1829d0ff06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-03-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/queer"], "description": "An exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art pairing photographs with a new sculptural installation and performance. It centers on Jason Wee's commissioned work, created in response to Eikoh Hosoe's series Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), which staged images of novelist Yukio Mishima in Tokyo in 1961–62. Wee's installation focuses on the props from those photographs—a garden hose, a mallet, a candle, a painterly backdrop—mounted within a spiral of rope encoded with a lecture script audible on headphones. The show also traces Hosoe's photographs across three editions of the landmark 1963 photobook, curated by Yasufumi Nakamori.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/props-from-barakei-eikoh-hosoe-and-jason-wee-53559/", "official_url": "https://leslielohman.org/exhibitions/props-two-works-with-jason-wee-and-eikoh-hosoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d6d92b08a35aae46099bbf25ea743fe65a9acd7d20edc6e9ac719fe7f5d0d2a5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Asilah Oui", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Anthology Film Archives", "address": "2nd Avenue 32", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/events-1/2026/10/28/book-conversation-the-story-of-printmaking-a-global-history-of-art-by-holly-ej-black", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "art"], "description": "A screening evening of two films that explore the links between Morocco and New York and examine two pioneers of Moroccan art in the twentieth century. It is presented by The Bronx Museum and EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, with a post-screening discussion joined by the Museum's Director of Education & Public Engagement, Patrick Rowe. The first film, Melehi (1984) by Shalom Gorewitz, documents the work and life of Moroccan painter and Asilah Cultural Moussem founder Mohamed Melehi, commissioned for his 1984 solo exhibition at The Bronx Museum. The second, A Thousand And One Berber Nights (2023) by Hisham Aïdi, follows the transatlantic career of dancer, actor, and choreographer Hassan Ouakrim, a protégé of La Mama Theatre founder Ellen Stewart who spread Berber dance and music in North America.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asilah-oui-51511/", "official_url": "https://bronxmuseum.org/event/robert-blackburn-screening/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c3d5d61c7022f577eaa0d5a28be77931aebeea92ca2571ddf69af86860d59a27-2000.webp"}]}