{"title": "Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-27T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Center for Architecture", "address": "LaGuardia Place 546", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/racism"], "description": "Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design is an exhibition by and about the Dark Matter U network, the first BIPOC-led transdisciplinary network in the built environment. It was initiated after the 2020 movement for Black Lives to enact systemic change across the design fields, changing how we gather, teach, and produce design. The show is curated in three parts: recording past DMU work, documenting current efforts, and a provocation for the future. It is curated and produced by a Dark Matter U network team, co-led by Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Jerome Haferd, and Sophie Weston Chien.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dark-matter-u-justice-pedagogy-design-51771/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af5462535782d1e55ca5d0c599e99fe6604d19b83bf4bdb94d66665abb2c77bb-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-27T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Center for Architecture", "address": "LaGuardia Place 546", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Why Design?", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-02T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Center for Architecture", "address": "LaGuardia Place 546", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/law"], "description": "Why Design? is an exhibition of K-12 student design work by the Center for Architecture's Learning and Engagement Department. 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It expands Warpmode, a worldbuilding toolkit of forty prompt-based player cards that the artist created with the curatorial project Black Beyond and published through Metalabel in 2024 to contemplate multidimensional layers of Blackness through four Black Metatheories—Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse. The digital version frames this toolkit as Ancestral Intelligence, the earliest knowledge systems and traditions passed down through generations in Indigenous and diasporic communities, proposing an alternative form of AI rooted in human experience. Visitors' anonymous responses become part of the artwork.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jazsalyn-warpmode-this-is-not-a-game-67475/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3f1db1953434f1964cecb48f4dfeecaaa686133e1b4afe0892a9bee1676e9f3b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book Launch: Junior Architects", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "Van Alen Institute hosts a book launch for 'Junior Architects: New Paradigms in Design Education' with a conversation, Q&A, and reception. The event is led by the book's editors, Suzanne Lettieri and Anya Sirota, who host the discussion. The publication examines the pursuit of equity in architecture and design education in the United States amid widening political divides around race and class. Contributors to the book and leaders of local enrichment programs will take stock of this work and consider where more equitable pathways into architecture and design might go next.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-launch-junior-architects-57340/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b925b5790ffb8c99ae695da7136658ae90d30f1d3838cb211cc8fb5abbe91432-1200.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": "Turn the volume up!", "start": "2026-08-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-07-11T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/activism", "art"], "description": "Turn the volume up! is an exhibition of photographs, paintings, prints, sculpture, installation, and archival materials from the Nasher Museum's collection connected to social justice and community organizing. It examines how artists, activists, and everyday people have used their voices to challenge injustice, build communities, and shape public life. Organized by curator Xuxa Rodríguez with support from Julianne Miao, it is divided into five thematic sections: Remarks, Organize, Records, Dissents, and Petitions, and features artists such as Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Guerrilla Girls, and Sam Durant. The title references Zohran Mamdani's quotation of KRS-One's 2020 anthem after his election victory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/turn-the-volume-up-66539/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/467755ae83b551864485070858ee14458f7c3a82e63d1a08db0d01a82c48ba31-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Culture of Place", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism"], "description": "Culture of Place is a public conversation on how architecture can support community organizations that give people places to gather and a voice in their neighborhoods' futures. It is presented by the Van Alen Institute, an architecture and design nonprofit based in Gowanus, Brooklyn, through its Van Alen Vanguard network of emerging design leaders. Architect Farida Abu-Bakare joins designer, artist, and educator Curry J. Hackett and architect Tura Cousins Wilson of the Studio of Contemporary Architecture (SOCA) to explore how design can sustain local cultural life while responding to changing community needs. Drawing on their practices and perspectives on Black cultural memory, they will examine what architects can learn from people already doing the work of building community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/culture-of-place-57339/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4365a4c136c0c0b94778d78397882a3c6b0f222b9a9bbec42cf06d31d07622bb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Harmony Hammond", "start": "2026-05-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "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"], "description": "Shelter from the Storm: An Artist's Eye with Stan Allen and Polly Apfelbaum is a group exhibition at the National Academy of Design, including work by Harmony Hammond. Curated collaboratively by architect Stan Allen and visual artist Polly Apfelbaum, a married couple, it draws entirely from the Academy's collection as part of the Artist's Eye series begun in 1992. The exhibition brings together work exploring conflict, memory, and resilience, rethinking the Academy's historic holdings across landscape, abstraction, architecture, figuration, and cityscape. This anniversary edition marks the first co-curation by two National Academicians and the first curated by an architect.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/harmony-hammond-50908/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/53f46ca36a0ec0fb1672c32dc71e92db920cfb583aa7d91637c6a90e3d02f1ec-1200.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=3&txobjid=cf1953e5-423a-4bfb-a460-1d8fbe19df62", "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": "With an Acre — An Afternoon with the CCA", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/with-an-acre-an-afternoon-with-the-cca-tickets-2003930941390?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/architecture", "film/documentary"], "description": "An afternoon of film and conversation hosted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, returning to the e-flux Screening Room. It features a screening of With an Acre, the third chapter in the Groundwork series conceived and produced by the CCA, which follows the conceptual development and field research of architects exploring alternative modes of practice in an age of ecological crisis. The film, introduced by Joshua Frank, follows architect Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum and community space in solidarity with a collective of smallholder farmers in Minas Gerais, Brazil, resisting extractive industrial agriculture. A conversation with Lukas Brasiskis, Nick Axel, Francesco Garutti, and Ella den Elzen follows, exploring the use of film as a tool for curatorial research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/with-an-acre-an-afternoon-with-the-cca-52438/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783401/with-an-acre-mdash-an-afternoon-with-the-cca/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49d720f1703c7fecd010bef0a6a84282bfeb94fa959a1ea1757b6233c0397f8b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Like everything alive that we try to hold forever", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pratt Manhattan Gallery", "address": "144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art"], "description": "\"Like everything alive that we try to hold forever\" is an art exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, an exhibition space on 14th Street in New York City. Curated by Elizabeth Diggon, Naomi Potter, and Shauna Thompson, it brings together seven artists: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Diane Borsato, Stephanie Dinkins, Bridget Moser, Sondra Perry, and Miya Turnbull. The works explore how human bodies exist in relation to non-human objects and how the collection, consumption, and contextualization of these objects shape our understanding of self and others. Organized by Esker Foundation and toured by Independent Curators International, the show uses objects and avatars to examine the identities and biases embedded in science, technology, and museum collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/like-everything-alive-that-we-try-to-hold-forever-54997/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb835cb6ffe02570170039fe74401004b5970d28503aee9cbd9af624de5a7826-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stephanie Dinkins: Anchoring Home Member's Preview", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Staten Island Museum", "address": "10301", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "A members-only preview of the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: Anchoring Home. The Staten Island Museum presents a solo show of transdisciplinary artist and educator Stephanie Dinkins, who grew up in Tottenville, Staten Island, and returns home to present her signature work. The participatory, sensory exhibition uses AI-generated processing of collected stories to create a living narrative evolving in real time, asking who gets to shape the future of AI and how we might co-create systems rooted in equity, care, and collective agency. Registration is by invitation only; contact the Development Office to become a member.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stephanie-dinkins-anchoring-home-members-preview-56057/", "official_url": "https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/event/stephanie-dinkins-anchoring-home-members-preview/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/112f8bac3f883955e791c50bd07beec42331e5ea0b02ee46b3249cda1384741e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://posterhouse.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works is an exhibition at Poster House about Native graphic art, shown in the Main Gallery and taking about an hour to see. It is curated by Brian Johnson of the Monacan Indian Nation, a designer and partner at Polymode, with exhibition design by Ola Baldych. Through works spanning nearly two centuries and representing over 60 tribes and nations, it celebrates Native designers as shapers of design, not merely its subjects, in resistance to colonial narratives. It is rated PG-13 for some racist and violent imagery and language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/designed-to-be-red-native-american-indigenous-poster-works-54899/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/047288f03a507764a0d5e4b7526ae189cbded1c6baa7e911fdfaab7025ed33bf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Make It ’Til You Make It, Vol.2", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "Make It ’Til You Make It, Vol.2 is an evening of show-and-tell for unfinished design work, open to the public and free of charge. It is presented by MFA Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts. A curated group of designers each take ten minutes to show something they are still figuring out, such as a toy, a tool, a product or a service, with no case studies or highlight reels. The department also holds a few open slots for audience members to sign up in person on the night to present their own work in progress, and afterwards the floor opens for mingling and trading ideas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/make-it-til-you-make-it-vol2-55734/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/make-it-til-you-make-it-vol-2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c86e03ac757cbc4bc3713b3fcec894fe577cbd2d854a31d44cc27d75b68aee2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PAF New York 2026: Bestiary of Darkness", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1998987410155", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "An evening of live performances and moving-image art, part of PAF New York 2026. It features a new video by Valentýna Janů following a female protagonist through the nocturnal metropolis, live activations of the screening, a performance by Vojtěch Fröhlich scaling the building, and a musical set by 33. PAF, an international curatorial platform focused on contemporary art and the moving image, is behind it, under this year's theme Bestiary, exploring how images are classified, circulated, and transformed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/paf-new-york-2026-bestiary-of-darkness-71718/", "official_url": "https://pioneerworks.org/programs/paf-new-york-2026-bestiary-of-darkness", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22aea5e5752518baa1511faa4ad439120c3d1c8d22451d2674401039a911d753-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Architect & The Housewife", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-05-09T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.groningermuseum.nl/nl/2025/tickets", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An international group exhibition about who gets to design 'the house' and who takes care of it, bringing together contemporary artists whose work considers maintaining an artistic practice amid everyday chores. It takes its title from Frances Stark's 1999 publication 'The Architect & The Housewife', in which she uses the figures of the architect and the housewife to examine power relations in the art world and daily life. Curated by Roos Gortzak and Clare Molloy, it features artists including Sol Calero, Zaha Hadid, Alessandro Mendini, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Vivian Suter and Nicole Wermers. The exhibition also marks the start of a process in which the Groninger Museum further examines its own history and collection, looking back to its postmodern building and experimental 1990s course while looking ahead to urgent questions of the twenty-first century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-architect-the-housewife-66529/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e68d4747a92d5642b7d0861a40efa3f71ae3240ddbcada5605307f29ac7aac64-2000.webp"}]}