{"title": "Dansaekhwa: Korean Abstract Art and its Cultural Impact", "start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-17T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "$20 Members, $30 Nonmembers. Students and Seniors: Use coupon SENSTU at check out.", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/abstract-art"], "description": "Asia Society hosts the launch of the book 'Dansaekhwa: Korean Abstract Art and Its Cultural Impact'. Author and art historian Dr. Yeon Shim Chung joins art critic Andrew Russeth, Editor-in-Chief of Artnet News, in conversation. Dansaekhwa, literally 'monochrome painting', emerged in 1970s postwar South Korea and pushed painting beyond the canvas into drawing, craft, sculpture, installation, and conceptual art. The discussion will cover the movement's historical contexts, philosophical underpinnings, and international legacy, with a book signing to follow.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dansaekhwa-korean-abstract-art-and-its-cultural-impact-91575/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/dansaekhwa-korean-abstract-art-and-its-cultural-impact", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87b5169cd08d734dc7ad1e6b7331fbea4cfbd3de91e6649490fe3a18ae797c6c-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-17T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "An Economy of Means: Contemporary Artists on Minimalism", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Print Center New York", "address": "West 24th Street 535, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A public conversation titled 'An Economy of Means: Contemporary Artists on Minimalism' at Print Center New York. It is organized by Brooklyn-based artist Mira Dayal, whose solo presentation 'Nets' is on view in the Leslie and Johanna Garfield Lobby, and brings together Dayal, Matt Keegan, and SR Lejeune. The speakers are artists who engage with legacies of Minimalism while working between sculpture and conceptual uses of print. Each will share how their work draws on specific and inherited structures while exploring new uses of form and material.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-economy-of-means-contemporary-artists-on-minimalism-55011/", "official_url": "https://www.printcenternewyork.org/public-programs/mira-dayal-contemporary-artists-on-minimalism", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e58130ec0ba74a4c868b8b7003c269a204234df44885bc30e0d6d6ef702e473f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Kikuo Saito: Alphabet Paintings", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "James Fuentes Gallery", "address": "52 White St, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Kikuo Saito: Alphabet Paintings is an exhibition at James Fuentes Gallery presenting a major series of abstract paintings. It introduces the Alphabet Paintings, works on gridded canvases stenciled with random Latin letters that the Tokyo-born artist Kikuo Saito (1939–2016) produced from the 1990s to the 2010s. After moving to New York in 1966, Saito worked in both visual art and theater, assisting Color Field painters and bringing improvisation and chance from the stage into his art. The series explores color, form, and vision, treating letters not as messages to read but as a new world to live with and transform.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kikuo-saito-alphabet-paintings-53285/", "official_url": "https://jamesfuentes.com/exhibitions/kikuo-saito-alphabet-paintings", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e1114b3db0d9f64645d63c7c898663382bd7ee64064db513579240d03f1d8f5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kim Tschang-Yeul: Recurrence", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Tina Kim Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 525, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "An exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery dedicated to the painter Kim Tschang-Yeul, his third solo show there. It focuses on works from the 1980s through the 2010s by the Korean émigré painter, who spent five decades exploring luminous, hyperrealistic waterdrops. At its center is his Recurrence series, begun in the mid-1980s, shown alongside Waterdrop paintings that trace his move toward a more tactile materiality, varied surfaces, and larger scale. For Kim, the repeated depiction of waterdrops was a means of working through memories of violence and loss from the Korean War, informed by Taoist and Zen Buddhist thought.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kim-tschang-yeul-recurrence-57034/", "official_url": "https://tinakimgallery.com/exhibitions/242-kim-tschang-yeul-recurrence/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/482fd6fc8f42853f046f1f1e4b2ac77305a8addf561559e5c5e664433e4c0ef6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Open House Celebrating Hard Art, Masao Gozu, New York Fashion at PS1, and Fred Wilson", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A free, all-ages open house day of programs and activities inspired by MoMA PS1's new exhibitions, with family workshops, artist talks, a sound bath, a makers market, and a 50th-anniversary stoop sale. Organized by MoMA PS1, it celebrates the opening of Hard Art, an exhibition on the legacy of abstraction by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today; a family workshop builds window-objects inspired by Masao Gozu: Windows and Bars; talks consider the history of the fashion exhibition New York Fashion at PS1, 1980–1984; and Howardena Pindell and James Little join director Connie Butler to revisit PS1's Afro-American Abstraction (1980). The day also includes movement sessions with Healspace and a Makers Market with artists from The Fortune Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-house-celebrating-hard-art-masao-gozu-new-york-fashion-81367/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/events/879-open-house", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5d7d330dd0010b59afc2bd73109d6e55fb83c5194520998e346b692cb7b53ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kyungtz'e Eosan Sooryukje: A Korean Buddhist Ritual for the Peace and Liberation of Departed Souls", "start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Korean Cultural Center NY", "address": "East 32nd Street 122, 10016", "price": "FREE (Pre-registration is Required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["religion/buddhist", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "Kyungtz'e Eosan Sooryukje is a Korean Buddhist ritual performance for the peace and liberation of departed souls, featuring beompae Buddhist chants, ritual music, ceremonial movement, and dance. It is presented by the Korean Cultural Center New York and the Kyungtz'e Eosan Preservation Society, whose tradition is designated as Seoul Metropolitan Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 43 and carried by Venerable Dongju Wonmyung and his disciples. Held in the week of Veterans Day, the performance invites audiences to remember those lost to war, conflict, and terrorism, and to reflect on compassion, peace, and repose. Admission is free with required pre-registration, and it is recommended for audiences ages 8 and above.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kyungtze-eosan-sooryukje-a-korean-buddhist-ritual-for-the-pe-53410/", "official_url": "https://www.koreanculture.org/performing-arts/2026/11/13/kyungtze-eosan-sooryukje-a-korean-buddhist-ritual-for-the-peace-and-liberation-of-departed-souls", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a2659a2d8379e7c5fdf6b52c94455215df3e76f9e48e4cdada7ee3328565c46-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Meeson Pae: Seed Memory", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Anat Egbi", "address": "Broadway 372, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Seed Memory\" is an exhibition of new oil paintings and sculptures by Meeson Pae, on view at 372 Broadway, with an opening reception from 6-8 pm. The Korean American artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, paints invented organisms that suggest flowers, fungi, and seedpods in dark landscapes recalling nineteenth-century Romantic and Symbolist painting. Works were inspired partly by her visits to Jeju, South Korea, where her family traces its origins, and sculptures in ceramic, cast metal, and plaster sit on lily-pad-shaped steel platforms like miniature islands. This is Pae's second solo exhibition at the gallery and her first presentation in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meeson-pae-seed-memory-51009/", "official_url": "https://anatebgi.com/exhibitions/meeson-pae-seed-memory/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Hard Art", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting", "history/black-history"], "description": "Hard Art is a major group exhibition at MoMA PS1 that examines the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. Presented by MoMA PS1, it features over forty artists, juxtaposing historical paintings by practitioners who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices that incorporate sculpture, video, sound, and painting. Organized thematically, the show traces the legacy of three generations of artists including Frank Bowling, Mark Bradford, Peter Bradley, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, Melvin Edwards, Jennie C. Jones, Joe Overstreet, and Raymond Saunders, alongside new and recent works by Aria Dean, Torkwase Dyson, Nikita Gale, Suzanne Jackson, Rindon Johnson, Caroline Kent, Carolyn Lazard, Eric N. Mack, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and SoiL Thornton. Its title derives from Bradley’s description of The DeLuxe Show, and the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hard-art-107897/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/744-hard-art", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60b4bea10ca3d34be83825a35d42f613d7e9e433c2f0ef190de875aa5bfa9c35-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MOCA TALKS with Hilda Shen", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "MOCA TALKS with Hilda Shen is an in-person evening conversation at the Museum of Chinese in America, open to the general public. The museum welcomes Brooklyn artist Hilda Shen for a talk about Their Landscapes, the inaugural exhibition of MOCA's Solo Artist Projects (SAP), an initiative presenting one-person exhibitions of new work. Shen's practice involves an inquisitive scrutiny of nature and an instinct for deconstruction, with forms that can appear both ancient and futuristic, naturally occurring and handmade, suggesting processes of construction and decay. She will reflect on the ideas, influences, and creative processes behind her ceramic sculptures and prints, considering how we observe, interpret, and imagine our surroundings, across post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-talks-with-hilda-shen-81371/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-talks-hilda-shen-their-landscapes/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c13f0bd567af78d6970d3e19f7ba4b305cfbe372372504d4976597e5305c904-2000.webp"}]}