{"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": "", "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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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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": "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": "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"}, {"title": "Sculpting Sound: Günther Kieser’s Music Posters", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00-04:00", "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", "music/jazz"], "description": "\"Sculpting Sound: Günther Kieser’s Music Posters\" is an exhibition at Poster House in New York City, shown in the Lower Level Hallways and taking about 20 minutes to see. It is curated by Tim Medland with exhibition design by Mihoshi Fukushima Clark. It presents the work of German designer Günther Kieser, who is best known for the posters he made for musical events over a career spanning four decades. The show highlights his three-dimensional models and collages for jazz and rock concerts, from his early 1950s posters to works for performers such as Miles Davis, Jefferson Airplane, and David Bowie.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sculpting-sound-gunther-kiesers-music-posters-54903/", "official_url": "https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/sculpting-sound-gunther-kiesers-music-posters/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ad846f395c9cda2e019bb0e469b966b615cb918443a55e9fa4c11118be0e367-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Speak Out! Student Poster Exhibit", "start": "2026-06-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Jackie Robinson Museum", "address": "Varick Street 75, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster"], "description": "Speak Out! Student Poster Exhibit is a poster exhibit showing works from the second annual Speak Out! Poster Contest. It features the inspiring leadership of the fifth graders who took part in the contest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/speak-out-student-poster-exhibit-53267/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "Free, first-come-first-served with registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/opera"], "description": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down is an evening in the Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum presenting the New York-stage premieres of two short operas, Trials and Tears and Sacajawea: Women of Many Names. Both pieces are by Dawn Avery, a Grammy-nominated cellist-composer of Mohawk descent, with Danielle Olana Jagelski (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe) as music director and original video design by Kate Freer. Trials and Tears, a collaboration with artist Ty Defoe commissioned by New Music Theatre Alliance in 2022, responds to Benny Andrews' painting Trail of Tears and connects the forced resettling of Indigenous people with trials leading to incarceration of minorities. Sacajawea: Women of Many Names, made with librettist-soprano Blake Hill-Saya and Shoshone Advisor Francesca Mason Boring, shows Sacajawea from the perspective of her Shoshone ancestral traditions, unfettered from Western mythologies about her life and motivations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/native-voices-karennalay-our-vibration-down-75364/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/native-voices-karenna-lay-our-vibration-down", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30e9c4439e2e624271c3021d72aaf341e5043b486c586d78e474d967d1eb8b40-1200.webp"}, {"title": "From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)", "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/europe/czechoslovakia"], "description": "An exhibition of seldom-seen Czechoslovak travel posters from the First Republic era of 1918 to 1938. It was curated by Nicholas D. Lowry, a New York City born authority on vintage posters who is President of Swann Auction Galleries and known for his appearances on the PBS television series Antiques Roadshow, with exhibition design by Mihoshi Fukushima Clark. The show explores how artists, designers, and commercial studios used travel posters as vehicles for soft power, presenting the new country formed after the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved as a land of opportunity, beauty, and progress. It is on view in the Entry Foyer, takes about 10 minutes to see, is rated G, and is held in conjunction with a related show at the Czech Center New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/from-monarchy-to-modernity-travel-identity-the-czechoslovak-54901/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e511eadadbefbb19493537287300fb7c2c0d1f924aca83d642d3902692f76480-2000.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": "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": "Form & Function: The Art of Graphic Design", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Culture Lab LIC", "address": "5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "\"Form & Function – The Art of Graphic Design\" is an exhibition of graphic design works on view from October 1 to November 1. It is curated by Dawn DeVito. The show argues that graphic design, when driven by aesthetic intent, conceptual rigor, and expressive freedom, is undeniably art, presenting works that transcend their commercial purpose through mastery of composition, color, typography, and image-making. It aims to appeal to design professionals, art enthusiasts, and the general public alike.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/form-function-the-art-of-graphic-design-52240/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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/f292939ab86c16f3b8477579b3b7ec565e196abd3b0f83aeeb3be77e0f9a7c35-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art + Furniture: Designers, Makers, and Advocates", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "Art + Furniture: Designers, Makers, and Advocates is an exhibition at the New York School of Interior Design Gallery running from September 25, 2026, through April 2, 2027. Curated by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht, it explores the origins, contributions, and legacies of the art and studio furniture movements from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. It showcases furniture, related objects, and photographs of twenty artists who blurred the lines between fine art and useful objects and between design and craft. The exhibition was designed by Studio Joseph with production and publication by Poleshuk Design, and is accompanied by a book available at NYSID.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-furniture-designers-makers-and-advocates-54345/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/da8524b347f37c3f87a9a35a644eee6507f9891e1e92eec0917669d6dc878fe9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283991", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A performance presented by grunt gallery at Performance Space 122. Curators Tania Willard and Dana Claxton commissioned a new work by Vance Wright, the gallery's 2026 curatorial fellow, drawing on the gallery's archive and its history with Indigenous performance art. Using actions, natural materials, oration, and sound, Wright's piece explores sacred sexuality, decolonial kink, trust, consent, and the body and the land as archive, grounded in Indigenous queer ways of being.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive-54720/", "official_url": "https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a61500cefb709a9417d77508430a09aec9d3614a028e75c41adb87723879973-1200.webp"}, {"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. This year it focuses on Justice by Design, an architectural and civic design program for teens hosted by the Queens Public Library in partnership with the Center for Architecture. In the program, students explore urban planning, architecture, and design while reimagining their neighborhood with a focus on equity, justice, and community empowerment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/why-design-51773/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11e4aa0de90d6cd529e783be5f09ac1a58c5c42cbd8cd3da4821f337c7d8161d-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": "", "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/745278b4d60e05b71021ad31790005a80caf6071573eb7efd85acfcd96e1278d-2000.webp"}]}