{"title": "Catherine Opie: To Be Seen", "start": "2026-08-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Lehmann Maupin", "address": "West 24th Street 501, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Catherine Opie: To Be Seen is a museum exhibition of the American photographer's work, touring to Edinburgh from the National Portrait Gallery in London and curated in collaboration with the artist. It is Opie's first major museum exhibition in the UK and her first ever solo show in Scotland. Nearly 80 of her portraits hang beside portraits from Scotland's national collection, asking who portraits show, why and how. Her subjects include mentors and collaborators, queer communities, children, surfers, high school footballers, political crowds and the artist herself in self-portraits.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/catherine-opie-to-be-seen-66724/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce97405b1870c9081c9d814f5e1339df445e2d823bd9d6a255cb88122d5e98c4-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-08-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Lehmann Maupin", "address": "West 24th Street 501, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Catherine Opie: Mountains Don't Know Their Names", "start": "2026-06-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lehmann Maupin", "address": "West 24th Street 501, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/landscape-photography"], "description": "\"Mountains Don't Know Their Names\" is an exhibition of recent photographs. Created in close collaboration with the artist Catherine Opie, it brings together a new body of work made during a three-week road trip through the Norwegian winter landscape in 2024. Throughout her career, Opie has explored the relationship between people, place, and identity, and here she turns her attention toward Norwegian mountains, fjords, and traces of human presence in the landscape. Rather than traditional landscape photography, the works function almost as portraits of nature itself, reflecting on landscape, photography, memory, and cultural identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/catherine-opie-mountains-dont-know-their-names-66725/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e51f6c65d3bd570357982ffa488bb3324dda8f63858e746bda80adae3c13b54-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Susan Sontag – Seeing and Being Seen", "start": "2026-06-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "literature"], "description": "An exhibition on the US-American author and critic Susan Sontag (1933–2004), a public intellectual who sparked controversial debates through her writings and nonconformist demeanor. It is a reprise and expansion of the show at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2025), curated by Dr. Kristina Jaspers and Dr. Birgit Bosold. Central to it are reflections on visibility, self-presentation, and representation, including a new section on Sontag's traces in Berlin and one on her influence on queer culture. It features works by Susan Sontag, Jack Smith, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Hujar, August Sander, Ingmar Bergman, The Supremes, and others, alongside new video interviews.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/susan-sontag-seeing-and-being-seen-66550/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1b0a6488106b1ae2af0dfb4d701609c1493f4237230411754c6341631f5e5a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Portraits of America Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "society"], "description": "Portraits of America is a group photography exhibition presenting portraits of individuals whose histories, cultural backgrounds, and lived experiences reflect the evolving idea of American identity. It is presented by Flushing Town Hall and curated by Stephanie S. Lee, with participating artists including Andreas Rentsch, Eva Mallis, Gina Minielli, Gus Philippas, Jim Richards, Tony Gonzalez, and Zachary Schulman. The exhibition asks what it means to be American today, offering many faces and stories rather than a single definition. It does not attempt to define what an American looks like, but invites viewers to look more closely at the people who make up the country.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/portraits-of-america-exhibition-52640/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/401277076e30ab30836f860fc25d68400b6b924b6b12e95a0d9807f51d50562d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Fall 2026 BFA Photography and Video Student Exhibitions: Clio Bildman, Weston Lee Andrews, and Yikai Wang", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "The Fall 2026 BFA Photography and Video Student Exhibitions present work by three students: Clio Bildman, Weston Lee Andrews, and Yikai Wang. Presented by the BFA Photography and Video department, it is the first cycle of its fall 2026 student exhibitions, held at 214 East 21st Street. On the 2nd floor, Clio Bildman shows “Inside the Stranger” and Weston Lee Andrews shows “A Road Trip to Philly,” while Yikai Wang shows “Temporary Homes” on the 5th floor. The works were selected through a semesterly open call, and viewing outside the reception hours requires an email appointment for non-SVA visitors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-2026-bfa-photography-and-video-student-exhibitions-clio-55723/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4618033109cad451d46807e8f10ffac0fd9be5d2c15d1db36298615804d42325-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Framing America: Portraiture, Identity, and Belonging", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "A panel talk with photographers Gina Minielli, Jim Richards, Tony Gonzalez, and Zachary Schulman, moderated by curator Stephanie S. Lee. The conversation explores each artist's photographic practice and approach to portraiture, along with ideas of identity, representation, belonging, and lived experience reflected in the Portraits of America exhibition. It ends with an audience Q&A, and a closing reception begins beforehand. All are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/framing-america-portraiture-identity-and-belonging-52655/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/framing-america-portraiture-identity-and-belonging", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0932397ff4db5ff4428ce1a10df1276c9c4e32fae39f5081b0535ed05b9d591-600.webp"}, {"title": "Renée Cox: Take A Good Look", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Ethan Cohen Gallery", "address": "West 19th Street 251, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/identity"], "description": "Take A Good Look is a solo exhibition at Ethan Cohen Gallery's Chelsea location, opening with a reception and running through October 31. The Jamaican-American photographer Renée Cox shows works from the early 1990s to the present, tracing over three decades of her photography, self-representation, and the politics of the image. Placing her own body at the center of pictures she has historically been excluded from, she reworks visual languages of Western art, Christianity, colonialism, and popular culture, from Yo Mama's Last Supper to the Queen Nanny of the Maroons and Soul Culture series. The show opens alongside the gallery's solo presentation of Cox at The Armory Show in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/renee-cox-take-a-good-look-52514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/edc4eed0eab65484f2a348c349f4d3595a1eaab21a69e2964c03adbda605468e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Aperture Loves New York", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://store.aperture.org/collections/books", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An exhibition of photographs presented at Aperture's new home in New York, which includes a bookstore and gallery. Titled Aperture Loves New York, it pays tribute to photographers who have shaped—and been shaped by—the city, bringing together memorable photographs with corresponding Aperture books. Organized by Sarah Meister, Executive Director, it features photographs by more than twenty artists, including Carrie Mae Weems alongside Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Stephen Shore and others. The presentation is anchored in Aperture's publishing history and captures the complex spirit of New York City.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aperture-loves-new-york-52823/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01f606e79ae5221535406ec353c0fac27a1d59a8705dc68b279e91fc9ae00845-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$180 hair & makeup + portrait (30 min); $50 portrait only (about 10 min); two-day festival admission", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "180.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living is a portrait session where you can be photographed for your own iei, the portrait placed at a Japanese funeral, while you are still alive. It is part of the Memento Mori in NYC event at Resobox and is led by New York photographer Tokio Kuniyoshi with hair and makeup artist Michael. In Japan more and more people are choosing their own funeral portrait themselves, and the session is less about preparing for death than about honoring the person you are today. Photos are retouched and delivered as digital files on the spot, with hair and makeup or portrait-only options.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iei-a-portrait-of-the-life-you-are-living-55325/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/600a7a691778b6c7249c987caadd9b73fecddb4aeb60970da6a0481797cd0f56-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Duo: Jason Byron Gavann & Jack Pierson", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "\"Duo: Jason Byron Gavann & Jack Pierson\" is a photography exhibition at Daniel Cooney Fine Art presenting portraits by two artists whose friendship spans nearly five decades. Jason Byron Gavann and Jack Pierson met in Boston in the early 1970s, when Gavann introduced Pierson to the city's LGBTQ+ social scene, and both became associated with the Boston School. Gavann shows vintage black-and-white and color photographs documenting queer life in Boston and Provincetown, while Pierson's contemporary portraits combine color and black-and-white imagery within individual frames. Using portraiture as common ground, the exhibition considers the ties between friendship, artistic influence, and the cultural communities that shape an artist's vision.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/duo-jason-byron-gavann-jack-pierson-52262/", "official_url": "https://www.danielcooneyfineart.com/exhibitions/duo-jason-byron-gavann-jack-pierson", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7dec6f73a5bb6ac145aca06e6ba2c719a80a03179d9d9e081538835b5348dfcf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "2026 Marc Levine Photography Internship Exhibition: Lindsey Sarria", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "sport/baseball"], "description": "A photography exhibition showing the work created by Lindsey Sarria during her summer internship with the New York Mets, titled \"At the Ballpark\". It is the outcome of the 2026 Marc Levine Photography Internship, a grant from the Amazin' Mets Foundation honoring the Mets' late chief photographer Marc Levine, open to a third- or fourth-year BFA Photography and Video student at the School of Visual Arts. Sarria's pictures focus on the experience and atmosphere of the ballpark, its rituals and its fans across generations. A public reception takes place on October 10 from 5:00 to 7:00pm, with registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/2026-marc-levine-photography-internship-exhibition-lindsey-s-55722/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24757fb1c49cc26635a314a96b693232ffc1918b4fb05c75d0d30ed3d5f953cc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "To My Best Friend", "start": "2026-01-23T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://my.icaboston.org/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/art-collection"], "description": "An exhibition of works from the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, presented in the Kim and Jim Pallotta Gallery. It draws on more than 50 artworks that longtime friends and supporters Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté helped bring into the ICA Collection, highlighting formal and material experimentation by artists including Laura Owens, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Olga de Amaral, and Sarah Sze, and is organized by Erika Umali, Curator of Collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/to-my-best-friend-66851/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19f2d15ba5c0054a69c0eafe188997f34a0400c9f78cbe41c5e6cf06db524c22-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Anywhere–Everywhere: Selections from the Peter J. Cohen Collection of Vernacular Photography", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/vernacular"], "description": "An exhibition of vernacular photography, \"Anywhere–Everywhere: Selections from the Peter J. Cohen Collection of Vernacular Photography,\" showing over 300 photographs. It is presented by BFA Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Visual Arts and organized by faculty member Peter Hristoff, curated by former and current students of the program. Vernacular photography, almost always anonymous, includes portraits, landscapes, still lives and snapshots of occasions from family gatherings to funerals, often found in flea markets and antique shops. The Peter J. Cohen collection holds over 100,000 photographs spanning the entire 20th century into the 21st, gathered over 30 years, and visitors may vote for their favorite photograph, with one voter drawn to win it on the final day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/anywhereeverywhere-selections-from-the-peter-j-cohen-collect-55721/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e4ee8c466f71e2c6790c0937cad2ed14cf75d65ea80bea09947cfb6ef3a64d6-2000.webp"}]}