{"title": "Arthur Jafa: 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": null, "price_to": null, "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/arthur-jafa-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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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, "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": "Arthur Jafa in: 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, "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/arthur-jafa-in-tremaine-emory-denim-tears-from-the-pool-of-b-66530/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "Mississippi Museum of Art", "address": "380 South Lamar Street, Jackson, MS, 39201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE", "start": "2026-04-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "film/experimental"], "description": "Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE is an exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art built around a new four-channel digital film installation with movable screens and an interactive speaker system. It was created by artist Shu Lea Cheang with eight intergenerational performers in Tucson, Arizona, whose own experiences and dreams of trans and gender nonconforming life in today's United States shaped the collaboratively scripted film. The work moves between physical and virtual space, honoring Cheang's late collaborator, musician Aérea Negrot, whose 2011 track \"It's Lover, Love\" is triggered as visitors shift the screens. Curated by Stamatina Gregory, the installation invites viewers to navigate agency, survival, and intimacy in a time of escalating political precarity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shu-lea-cheang-lover-love-53560/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/320422965381a7872e5895e88d85060ad4c8d0d023182624c361a38b993574ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lorraine O'Grady: Rivers, First Draft Performance", "start": "2026-11-15T15:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A special program pairing never-before-seen footage of Lorraine O'Grady's one-time performance Rivers, First Draft with a Tate Modern-commissioned short film by filmmaker and actor Zawe Ashton. The 1982 performance took place in a northern section of Central Park as a 'collage-in-space,' with simultaneous actions on two sides of a stream about uniting the Caribbean and New England heritages and three ages of the self. Ashton's short film shows her visiting O'Grady at her New York home to discuss race, gender, and the challenges for Black women artists, before both visit the Central Park site. A post-screening conversation brings Ashton together with curator Catherine Morris.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lorraine-ogrady-rivers-first-draft-performance-71879/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005090-lorraine-ogrady-rivers-first-draft-performance/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c439029b67c3b4b97c21737f78ed44821f7990eb70c99e2ade9b8e7f6d1baf19-2000.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", "address": "384 Broadway, New York NY 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "Texts, Tracks, Talks (1992 – 2026)", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Greene Naftali Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art"], "description": "A survey exhibition of video works spanning 1992 to 2026 by the artist Tony Cokes, presented at the Greene Naftali Gallery. Curated by Amber Esseiva, it gathers past and newly commissioned pieces that explore artistic production, intent, and the formation of personal identity. Since the 1980s, Cokes has sampled and remixed fragments of the media landscape, layering found text over vibrant colors and dissonant soundtracks to surface latent ideologies of popular culture and confront structural racism, power, and visibility. Visitors should note the exhibition features flashing lights, loud repetitive sounds, and strobe effects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/texts-tracks-talks-1992-2026-66568/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f64052549f2e5f98368a7f82aec2b7e0154128c1b098957b8ec76e1ce7229ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: Another View Book Launch and Signing Featuring Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and Awol Erizku (Phaidon)", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature"], "description": "A panel and book launch with signing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging, held in Riese Lounge on the 1st floor and with limited seating. Editor Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and photographer Awol Erizku present \"Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists\" (Phaidon). The book explores the studios, living spaces, and creative processes of twenty notable Black artists through 150 never-before-published photographs by Erizku, with profiles based on interviews by Brielmaier and an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A government-issued photo ID is required for entry, and guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-another-view-book-launch-and-signing-featuring-53240/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/events/dpi-presents--dpi-professor-isolde-s-book-signing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0cc6fc700a494b95fd85d0c9b2f56c6dd16ddf448a0d0f3bca12c35f284dd46-2000.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": "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, "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": "Omari Douglin", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "29 Lafayette Ave", "address": "29 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art"], "description": "A public mural titled 'Junction' by the visual artist Omari Douglin, on view to the public. Commissioned as part of BAM's Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative, it was inspired by the Hamm Archives, a collection chronicling the institution's history and programming. The work layers archival images from BAM's Next Wave Journals, magazines, posters and advertisements from the 1980s and 1990s, reimagined in Douglin's painting style, with jazz musician Miles Davis at its center drawn from a 1994 GAP advertisement. Its yellow background echoes Keith Haring's 1984 poster for Secret Pastures, reflecting how one artistic discipline informs another.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/omari-douglin-51205/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/483cddb2282d252cd98e2bd1d26badd1b1b3b611b363beae28f3aef9509f5d51-2000.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, "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": ""}, {"title": "Here, Already", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/queer"], "description": "\"Here, Already\" is a screening of three films by Salad Hilowle, Ahmed Umar, and Samira Elagoz with Z Walsh, guest-curated by Power Ekroth and followed by a discussion between Ekroth, Elagoz, and Walsh. The films explore love in different forms, from desire hidden in plain sight to intimacy across continents, with music playing an important role in each. Hilowle's \"Passion of Remembrance\" uses 1990s Swedish pop, television, and archival footage to reveal how Black artists were celebrated for their contributions to popular culture while treated as outsiders due to xenophobia. Umar's \"Truth Bears No Scandal\" brings hidden queer love stories within well-known Sudanese songs to the fore, while Elagoz and Walsh's \"You can't get what you want but you can get me\" documents their own love story across continents through a year of photographs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/here-already-52439/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783397/here-already/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8494b80775001b38602e02f60e9cb7c7c56d4c3128fcc35cedd3d2fc5d4a110-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jazsalyn: Warpmode, This is not a game!", "start": "2026-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art"], "description": "Jazsalyn: Warpmode, This is not a game! is a digital artwork by the Whitney Museum of American Art's artport portal for Internet and new media art. It expands Warpmode, a worldbuilding toolkit of forty prompt-based player cards that the artist created with the curatorial project Black Beyond and published through Metalabel in 2024 to contemplate multidimensional layers of Blackness through four Black Metatheories—Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse. The digital version frames this toolkit as Ancestral Intelligence, the earliest knowledge systems and traditions passed down through generations in Indigenous and diasporic communities, proposing an alternative form of AI rooted in human experience. Visitors' anonymous responses become part of the artwork.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jazsalyn-warpmode-this-is-not-a-game-67475/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3f1db1953434f1964cecb48f4dfeecaaa686133e1b4afe0892a9bee1676e9f3b-2000.webp"}]}