{"title": "Author Talk: Damage: Notes on a Queer Aesthetic", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00-05:00", "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": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/criticism", "society/queer"], "description": "An author talk at which writer and critic Jonathan Alexander discusses his latest book, Damage: Notes on a Queer Aesthetic. The book blends cultural criticism and storytelling to ask how to look at images marked by queer pain without turning that pain into shock or pretending it isn't there. Alexander is joined in conversation by artist elin o'Hara slavick and artist Carlos Motta. 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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": "Craft Talk: Writing Queer YA with Max Fischer and David Levithan", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hive Mind Books", "address": "Irving Avenue 219, 11385", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/young-adult", "society/queer"], "description": "A craft talk on writing queer YA fiction, held to celebrate the release of The Unpoetic Life of August Grey. 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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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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"}]}