{"title": "Black Feminist Study Group: Session IV", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T15:30:00-04:00", "place": "The New School", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/feminism"], "description": "The Black Feminist Study Group: Session IV is the final session of a four-part program of readings and group discussions shaped by the poetics and practice of Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino, recipient of the Vera List Center's 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. It is organized and presented within her prize exhibition ¿História Natural? and is anchored by texts on interconnected struggles for liberation and resistance throughout the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary artist OlaRonke Akinmowo, founder of The Free Black Women's Library, reads from Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, hosted by Re'al Christian, VLC Assistant Director of Editorial Initiatives. The session is part of the Vera List Center Forum 2026: Matter of Intelligence, presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, co-convened by Re'al Christian and curated by Carin Kuoni and Eriola Pira.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/black-feminist-study-group-session-iv-88265/", "official_url": "https://www.veralistcenter.org/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3053649ed4fcc36d53bb3cdf23304db7500a9a001f3cae98f69cd94602e4e19-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T15:30:00-04:00", "place": "The New School", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "In Conversation: Derek Fordjour and Katy Siegel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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": "J. 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Her multidisciplinary practice explores heritage through historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora, and soil hand-dug from the True Blue Plantation grounds in South Carolina, investigating the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adebunmi-gdadebo-67140/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/adebunmi-gdadebo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5e0eaacc1619d0a6b3d1e86c1e8456f7ed89189f42e0cdaf56a1ed703d42756-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Madison Square Park Conservancy’s 2026 Public Art Symposium", "start": "2026-11-13T09:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "SVA Theater", "address": "West 23rd Street 333, 10011 New York", "price": "Free and open to all, registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A symposium of talks bringing artists together around public art in civic space, held at a theater on West 23rd Street. It is hosted by Madison Square Park Conservancy, whose 13th annual edition is inspired by Roberto Lugo's Alfarero del Barrio (Village Potter). Participants include Frida Kahlo – Guerrilla Girls, Miguel Luciano, Roberto Lugo, Margarita Rosa, Bonafide Rojas, Derick \"D.\" Cross, Rigoberto Torres, Quiara Alegría Hudes, John Ahearn, Max Gruber, Grace Yasumara and Kraal \"Kayo\" Charles, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation. It is free and open to all, with registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/madison-square-park-conservancys-2026-public-art-symposium-56269/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9271bc0c475873cffe247de388d9fe2226021ef7c23384a61e288ad10dff699-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening Reception for YATTA: Iron + Palm Wine", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. 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The evening offers light refreshments, a first look at the installation, and a poetry reading featuring poets from Camille Dungy's 2009 anthology Black Nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine-55299/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/events/614-opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening Reception · By Way Of", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flux Factory", "address": "29th Street 39-31", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An opening reception for By Way Of, a group exhibition of new work. The Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Gallery presents it with the inaugural cohort of the Regional Artist Mobility Program, a residency exchange between Flux Factory and CIA in Northeast Ohio. The exhibition's title nods to the circuitous paths makers take, each artist working through something that already exists, such as a melting shoe, reenactment, material resistance or Saturday morning cartoons. The cohort includes Rachel Ferber, Mike Meier, Itala Aguilera and Li-Ming Hu, with remarks at 6:00 pm followed by a one-night-only live performance by Aguilera at 6:15 pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-reception-by-way-of-66487/", "official_url": "https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/opening-reception-%c2%b7-by-way-of/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/29de86ed41bd009dcd0fca98f738901645bec29998bbe637e6173f4d44fdd039-1200.webp"}]}