{"title": "Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country", "start": "2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/us"], "description": "\"Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country\" is an exhibition at the New York Society Library marking the United States' 250th anniversary. It explores how the library, founded twenty-two years before the Declaration of Independence, bore witness to the earliest days of the U.S. government, lending books to President Washington and serving as the first Library of Congress. On view are a first edition of Thomas Paine's \"Common Sense\", a 1776 New York newspaper chronicling the path to Independence, a first edition of the Federalist Papers, and books read by George Washington and other founding fathers. The exhibition is open daily in the Assunta, Ignazio, Ada and Romano Peluso Exhibition Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/collective-witness-a-library-for-a-young-country-56807/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db34d8ac8d84ad03a789dbd97df2e586cd0d52cc882f707a6611ff1aed9b3b34-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Tour the Building with a Docent, October (2-4 PM on the half hour)", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; drop in", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Escape the hustle and bustle of the city and step into history on a docent-led tour of the Library's landmark 1917 building, exploring the gallery and its architectural wonders. The New York Society Library offers these tours, which on some days focus especially on the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery and its current exhibition, 'Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country,' celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary and exploring how a public library and a nascent democracy converged in New York City. Tours run on the half hour, and visitors meet their docent guide in the first-floor public Reference Room, to the right as they enter. The event is open to the public and visitors can simply drop in.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-the-building-with-a-docent-october-2-4-pm-on-the-half-h-79672/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/tour-building-docent-october-2-4-pm-half-hour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c4561d354af77449b1ec93f426289ca85eaec9df4cdcc39b3a0ec29cc2a835f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Donald Moffett", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/us"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational writings, Common Sense and The American Crisis, with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Donald Moffett, and Maynard Monrow. Donald Moffett contributes a newly commissioned text-based work using graphic design strategies to deliver the message that power lies with us. As 250 years ago, the country navigates deep division, and the exhibition presents contemporary art as offering hope, inspiration, and momentum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/donald-moffett-50912/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82926d8d53a2a2e39799b64bf9dd1628a0da5444c084f8eec898db4e8c12a086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "“Founding Principals” Exhibition", "start": "2026-06-27T11:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A two-gallery exhibition at Historic Richmond Town titled “Founding Principles: The Declaration of Independence, Civics, and Staten Island.” It is presented by Historic Richmond Town and draws on objects from its collection, such as campaign buttons and items from 1776, alongside local historical examples. The show examines the different levels and branches of government and the ways citizens engage it, and also explores civic assets, public spaces, and forums for civic engagement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/founding-principals-exhibition-53026/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557991e175b73c332d322a046f4a0c41cff93bc80412909ad82c33ebcc7f760e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Hours", "start": "2026-10-30T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T16:00:00-04:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution", "art"], "description": "Open Hours are the public visiting times of the Old Stone House, a historic house in Brooklyn where visitors can drop in without a reservation. The organizer is Old Stone House & Washington Park, which keeps the house open and welcomes all, with a suggested three-dollar donation at the door and no one turned away for lack of funds. Upstairs, the contemporary exhibition 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land', curated by Jeremy Dennis, brings together new work by Indigenous artists Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon and Dennis himself to examine the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence's promises and the dispossession of Native lands. On the ground floor, the permanent exhibit 'The Old Stone House: Witness to War' leads visitors through ten themed areas covering the journey from the Lenape village of Marechkawick through Dutch colonization and the Revolutionary War era in Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-hours-76987/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6500f42884a5b5d67183669b37bf6c23a15f15238db7e199bdb63def46ddfab7-600.webp"}, {"title": "Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime", "start": "2026-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "history/world-war"], "description": "\"Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime\" is an exhibition of book-related posters from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Germany printed during the World Wars. It is curated by Molly Manning, an author, historian, and associate professor of law at New York Law School, with exhibition design by Randee Ballinger. It shows how nations relied on public book donations and fundraising to supply soldiers with reading material, and how books became a symbol of freedom and democracy. It takes about 20 minutes to visit, is rated G, and is located in Poster House's Lower Level Hallways.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/reading-under-fire-arming-minds-hearts-during-wartime-54902/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b971fa932fa1133dadc5f147a4746deb60d7cceae7a72ae801556ad3c8448915-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spies Among Us: From the American Revolution to 1830s New York", "start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T13:30:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-york-tickets-2001890882519", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "A program at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden looking back at spies and spying in New York City from the American Revolution to the 1820s and 1830s. The museum's brand new program explores the spying and spying techniques of ordinary citizens, from George Washington's Culper Spies in the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812 and early 19th-century reform movements like temperance and abolition, which set the stage for spies of the Civil War. It is followed by a tour of the Mount Vernon Hotel, where from 1826 to 1833 guests might have gossiped about spies of their day—or been spies themselves—while pursuing leisure activities in the then-tranquil countryside of Manhattan. The museum marks 250 years of American Independence and 200 years of the Mount Vernon Hotel with this look at a hidden facet of New York City history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-yor-54013/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-york/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Hank Willis Thomas", "start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Live Arts", "address": "West 19th Street 219, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://newyorklivearts.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVt00000ZXEfyMAH", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "Hank Willis Thomas at Ford Foundation Live Gallery is a gallery exhibition of new works by artist Hank Willis Thomas, on view from September 16, 2026 into January 2027. Thomas, trained as a photographer, reinterprets archival images with new or rarely used technical processes, and viewers often must shift position or use a tool such as a camera flash to experience the whole work. The three works shown use 1940s photographs from U.S. government agencies of schoolchildren, many of Japanese descent, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and their titles reference the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Mitsuye Endo. The works examine what it means to be American and how we reconcile the contradictions of history and national identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hank-willis-thomas-54321/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6b782475ce0af6b70903f5ec4df136f24627893c7c5f66fca61bd5920797c81-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open House at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden-Tues, Nov 3rd", "start": "2026-11-03T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-3rd-tickets-2003830449817", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A free, all-day open house at a historic house museum celebrating a new exhibition and the 200th anniversary of the Mount Vernon Hotel opening on this site. The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden invites the public to drop in between 11am and 4:30pm for complimentary tours, Insider Talks on the exhibition The Empire City Begins: New York in the 1820s and 1830s, and refreshments in the historic Tavern. Visitors can also play a traditional 19th-century game, stroll the historic garden, browse the gift shop, and learn about the hidden history of day hotels in 1820s New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-54012/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-3rd/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61d4ce3d251a6651aebc9429ab891f677ac2db4c30af0ce60ec8e5c482bb7aa6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land is an art exhibition at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Guest-curated by Jeremy Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and executive director of Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, it features work by Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon, and Dennis himself. The show presents Redeye's monoprint collage, Mahoney's Theories of belonging, Harmon's ntapi nuxwis (I Am Here My Grandchild) and Grandma Warned Me, and staged photography by Dennis. A free opening reception with the artists takes place on September 16, 2026, from 6 to 8 PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-land-54592/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89f07abb0b0e5e5b62b92bea09854aac9cfd2c7b7d33e152d84010df6bd0ccec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society"], "description": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design is an exhibition at Van Alen Institute's Brooklyn space that invites five artists and design teams to respond to the institute's historic archive. Van Alen Institute has spent more than 130 years at the intersection of design ambition and civic life, and its archive of competition boards, jury records, travel logs, and correspondence is one of the most extensive records of American architectural history. Working directly with these materials, the participants ask what the archive reveals about who design has historically served and whom it has erased, through works such as sonic installations summoning uncredited voices and core samples grounding architecture in land history. Visitors are invited to explore the exhibition with curiosity and skepticism, treating the archive as living material to be questioned and reinterpreted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-access-exploring-130-years-of-american-design-57334/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64844e8853810e08d6817a2b007c3c46562ffdf6503ee3d9177bfd96dd15cd41-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: The Object/Photograph: From the Archives of the Department of Photography & Imaging", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNEkWV1J4mE1U_jXmIiNdgteScif8G824i4vsT41XgHI8hMg/viewform?usp=header", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "The exhibition \"The Object/Photograph: From the Archives of the Department of Photography & Imaging\" presents original photographic prints drawn from the study archive of NYU Tisch's Department of Photography and Imaging. It was assembled by Mark Jenkinson, an associate arts professor in the department, and honors the legacy of Lee D. Witkin, an early adjunct professor and pioneering gallerist whose donations include many of the key works. The show traces photography from its roots in the first documented camera obscura to its power to reveal truths, from evidence for the General Theory of Relativity to a 1965 photograph that helped lead to the Voting Rights Act. Among the treasures rediscovered in drawers are works such as Joel Meyerowitz's dye-transfer print \"Street Busker, Paris, France, 1967\"; RSVP is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-the-objectphotograph-from-the-archives-of-the-d-53232/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8eb95652ef86032381977a024cd69e4822a894f55efdc6a44ed2b4bdaaa25da1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=29ff61fa-a369-4e0d-98de-cf461eacef33", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/activism"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition Raise Your Voice: New York Activism at the Museum of the City of New York. This one-hour tour looks at the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in the exhibition. MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive, and author or editor of publications including Signs of Change and Signal. The tour is part of the museum's monthly series with curator Sarah Seidman and its Free Late-Night Wednesdays.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-54056/", "official_url": "https://www.mcny.org/event/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557cdbb318a20c720dc819a312a33377618c649fbe9849bd536c255e1e7b3141-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Let’s Make an Anthology with BlackMass Publishing", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture", "address": "Malcolm X Boulevard 505, 10037 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-make-an-anthology-with-blackmass-publishing-tickets-1998262942252", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage", "diy/zines"], "description": "A hands-on zine publishing workshop in which participants craft a collective zine and produce their own knowledge, culminating in a limited edition collective anthology printed for pickup at the Schomburg Center after the program. It is facilitated by BlackMass Publishing, a Black independent press and archive founded by artist and publisher Yusuf Hassan, whose practice examines publishing as a means of documenting, preserving, and circulating knowledge through printed matter. The workshop is inspired by the Schomburg Center's centennial exhibition To Uncover and Reveal to the World: Arturo Schomburg's Library, which displays the 4600-book, pamphlet, art, and manuscript 'seed collection' purchased by the New York Public Library in 1926. Collaging tools are provided; participants should bring magazine clippings, photographs, and other ephemera they wish to incorporate into their zines.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lets-make-an-anthology-with-blackmass-publishing-55715/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3d1e95e84d5e5941741fa6326fd822adf118a01b33f6d9dd9e1d8fae7edebe9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wednesday Story Time", "start": "2026-11-04T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "Society of Illustrators", "address": "East 63rd Street 128, 10065 New York", "price": "Free, with a suggested donation of $5", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books/picture-book"], "description": "Wednesday Story Time is a cozy afternoon gathering for families in the historic library of the Society of Illustrators, held every Wednesday. Each week, a selection of engaging picture books with wonderful stories and artwork is shared, giving young readers the chance to listen, look, and let their imaginations grow. It is a fun way to introduce children to the world of picture books while experiencing the Society of Illustrators. It is recommended for young children and their caregivers, no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/wednesday-story-time-55952/", "official_url": "https://societyillustrators.org/event/wednesday-story-time-11-04-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7e71d13c4523b832133f76279b75499ab6246fcf2e545a0ec7628117201a6a18-600.webp"}, {"title": "“The Bicentennial Revisited: The Spirit of ’76?” Exhibition", "start": "2026-05-05T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "King Manor Museum", "address": "Jamaica Avenue 150-05, 11432 Jamaica", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "King Manor Museum presents the exhibition “The Bicentennial Revisited: The Spirit of ’76?”. It explores how Americans interpreted the nation’s founding during the 1976 bicentennial through the material culture of the era. Objects on display include printed fabrics, commemorative plates, beer cans, magazines, school yearbooks, underground prints, and protest posters. The show examines the vision of America expressed in both consumer goods and handmade items, highlighting the colorful and eclectic aesthetics of the 1970s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-bicentennial-revisited-the-spirit-of-76-exhibition-53025/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9c8ee2e8c5f55e45f5de8a1eff01421b24c0e6e88f8f500398c8c0612d9fc11-1200.webp"}, {"title": "“Black People and the Battle of Brooklyn” Exhibit", "start": "2026-07-01T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lefferts Historic House", "address": "Flatbush Avenue 452, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "“Black People and the Battle of Brooklyn” is a pop-up exhibit in the yard of Lefferts Historic House. Presented by Prospect Park Alliance, it explores the important and varied roles Black people played in the Battle of Brooklyn in August 1776, the first and largest battle of the American War for Independence. It shows how they served as soldiers and spies on both sides, built American forts, maintained British ships, and seized the conflict to better their lives. The exhibit also tells how the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family and their neighbors navigated the war, including fighting at Battle Pass in what is now Prospect Park.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/black-people-and-the-battle-of-brooklyn-exhibit-53028/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}