{"title": "Artist Talk: Charles Atlas and Joe Westmoreland", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-19T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "literature"], "description": "An artist talk bringing together artist Charles Atlas and writer Joe Westmoreland at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. It marks the recent republication of Westmoreland's novel Tramps Like Us, an autofictional chronicle of America between gay liberation and the AIDS crisis, back in print after two decades with an introduction by Eileen Myles. The evening features a reading from the novel and a screening of Atlas' film and video work, followed by a conversation moderated by Lucy Sexton and a Q&A with the audience. 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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. 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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. 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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": "Doron Langberg", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "69.95", "price_to": "69.95", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting", "literature"], "description": "A bookstore event celebrating the first monograph of painter Doron Langberg, with a conversation followed by a signing. Rizzoli Bookstore hosts Doron Langberg in conversation with Gaby Collins-Fernández. The book brings together more than 100 paintings spanning ten years of the artist's practice, with new writing by Ian Alteveer, hannah baer, and Gaby Collins-Fernández and a conversation with artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Salman Toor. Langberg, prominent among a new generation of figurative painters, explores relationships, sexuality, nature, family, and the self, proposing how painting can portray and create queer subjectivity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/doron-langberg-71735/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69954f0992d83d47abf4af5493091de6286cb064bdaa7516fe376ca03fa4d2aa-600.webp"}, {"title": "Trans Health HQ Vet-a-Thon for Trans Day of Remembrance", "start": "2026-11-20T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "Free RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/queer/trans", "occasion/memorial"], "description": "A hands-on community workshop marking Trans Day of Remembrance, beginning with a viewing of Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE. It is co-hosted by Trans Health HQ, a NYC-based organization and the world's largest free trans health resource hub serving over 23,000 community members, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Volunteers verify and expand Trans Health HQ's Access & Info Hub, confirming provider listings, adding new ones, and closing gaps that keep trans New Yorkers from finding safe care. No special expertise is required; attendees bring a laptop, lived experience, and a detail-oriented brain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/trans-health-hq-vet-a-thon-for-trans-day-of-remembrance-53569/", "official_url": "https://secure.qgiv.com/for/leslie-lohmanmuseum/event/vetathon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b2252e085d57a9b289daf811a8b4f9ad14e94a56579660fa45715c8d055ed07-2000.webp"}]}