{"title": "Artist Talk: Alexandria Smith", "start": "2026-11-18T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Greenwich House Pottery, 16 Jones Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Artist Talk: Alexandria Smith is an in-person artist talk at Greenwich House Pottery. Alexandria Smith, a New York City-based artist and educator whose mixed-media works investigate the selfhood of the queer Black femme body, will give an overview of her work and share the project she is working on during her residency there. Her boldly colored works straddle the border between painting and sculpture, with assemblage paintings incorporating layered shapes made from painted wood and 3D-printed elements that rise from their surfaces and extend beyond their frames. 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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": "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, "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": "IN CONVERSATION: sonia louise davis & Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An In Conversation event at the Hesse Flatow gallery celebrating sonia louise davis's solo exhibition, a promise, a portal, possibility. The artist sonia louise davis talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America. The program includes a special performance by davis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-sonia-louise-davis-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-53014/", "official_url": "https://hesseflatow.com/events/113/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07dd06ba189ea4110533b2518ec6de4fb9ae2ed5b97f9e02ca588e1fc4c20f2c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Soft Spaces: Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/queer"], "description": "\"Soft Spaces: Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu\" is an exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, part of a series of installations featuring works by alumni of the museum's Fellowship. The edition on view is a two-person show by Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu, with the series curated by Chloe Ming, Assistant Curator / Exhibitions Manager. The \"softness\" of the title reflects the artists' experience of queer-centered spaces as providing safety in process, experimentation, and vulnerability. Across the series, more than three dozen artists present digital and media art, painting, photography, filmmaking, performance, and installation, responding to the ever-changing landscape of LGBTQIA+ experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/soft-spaces-heather-marie-scholl-and-eva-wu-53562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b37f7e8745d0bef77924193b190f99cb13d574e9baaeac3887be7bfa6e8d02ef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ASL Studio Afternoon: Clay Sculptures", "start": "2026-11-08T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "Free of charge, advance reservation required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "ASL Studio Afternoon: Clay Sculptures is a clay sculpture workshop for participants in the ASL Community at the Jewish Museum. Visitors will explore the exhibition 'Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte' and create their own works inspired by the sculptures on view. The workshop is led by artist Youmee Lee, a Korean American artist whose work draws on Asian folklore and American Sign Language poetry. All Access Programs are free of charge and require advance reservation; ASL students will not be admitted and no voice interpretation will be provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asl-studio-afternoon-clay-sculptures-75692/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110826-asl-studio-afternoon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e05f82760b86e04de25a4a89bb8f6e339908329665e57f44d5d8d9a9e6622959-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Carrie Mae Weems in: Meet Me in the Forest", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/forest", "art"], "description": "Meet Me in the Forest is an exhibition of twenty-one contemporary works spanning paintings, textiles, mixed-media, glass, ceramics, photography, and installations. It invites visitors into forests, gardens, and natural worlds artists create, exploring the layered relationships between nature and humankind, where beauty, danger, and humanity converge. The show draws on the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum's collection, new acquisitions, and loans, and features artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ebony G. Patterson, and Ana Mendieta. It is organized by the museum's curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and assistant curator of glass Linnea Seidling, with works lent in part by Gladstone Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/carrie-mae-weems-in-meet-me-in-the-forest-66536/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca1b291a88beb0e39c480b065c8d0a3e612f5bd0a2181948ac02915d3e33562f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Matthew Lutz Kinoy The Mud Room: Itinerant Artists, Folk Spectacles, and Painted Walls", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Amant", "address": "Maujer Street 306, 11206 Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/ceramics"], "description": "The Mud Room: Itinerant Artists, Folk Spectacles, and Painted Walls is an exhibition at Amant's AZ gallery built as a theater-in-the-round, with a working ceramic workshop at its center surrounded by four large paintings serving as backdrops. It is by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, developed with collaborators Natsuko Uchino and Kazunori Hamana, and considers the gallery as a ceramic studio and the studio as a theater. The exhibition reflects on artists, artisans, potters, and muralists whose work has shaped domestic and public spaces, tracing lineages from Aaron Douglas's 1934 mural Aspects of Negro Life to murals by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish and Keith Haring's public murals. Ceramics are created throughout the run of the exhibition, and the staging is extended through artist dialogues, culinary gatherings, and theatrical performances that frame ceramics as knowledge transmitted through the body, touch, and making.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/matthew-lutz-kinoy-the-mud-room-itinerant-artists-folk-spect-50978/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6017a6455a8093a230d803e3ea4e1657ed9ec82de19609464c1965ba40be068e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MOCA TALKS with Hilda Shen", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "MOCA TALKS with Hilda Shen is an in-person evening conversation at the Museum of Chinese in America, open to the general public. The museum welcomes Brooklyn artist Hilda Shen for a talk about Their Landscapes, the inaugural exhibition of MOCA's Solo Artist Projects (SAP), an initiative presenting one-person exhibitions of new work. Shen's practice involves an inquisitive scrutiny of nature and an instinct for deconstruction, with forms that can appear both ancient and futuristic, naturally occurring and handmade, suggesting processes of construction and decay. She will reflect on the ideas, influences, and creative processes behind her ceramic sculptures and prints, considering how we observe, interpret, and imagine our surroundings, across post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-talks-with-hilda-shen-81371/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-talks-hilda-shen-their-landscapes/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c13f0bd567af78d6970d3e19f7ba4b305cfbe372372504d4976597e5305c904-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Curator Talk | Queer Spaces, Queer Contexts", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "El Museo Del Barrio", "address": "5th Avenue 1230, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/queer"], "description": "A curator talk titled \"Curator Talk | Queer Spaces, Queer Contexts\" held at El Museo Del Barrio. It takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art and features the exhibition's curators C. Ondine Chavoya, John D. Murchison Regents Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, and David Evans Frantz, Executive Director of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation. Admission is free with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/curator-talk-queer-spaces-queer-contexts-79194/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b56e0515585abc33d4dd78fe12d0563b94b8ab641e9b01f096ba352d4bb611c3-2000.webp"}]}