{"title": "Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz", "start": "2026-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An exhibition bringing together a selection of works from the historic gift of Peggy Cooper Cafritz's art collection to the Studio Museum in Harlem, running through February 28, 2027. Cafritz (1947–2018), an arts patron, educator, and civil rights activist who cofounded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, bequeathed the majority of her collection to the museum. Her bequest included over four hundred works by more than two hundred artists of African descent, spanning paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper. This is the first exhibition to tell a story of Cafritz as an art collector, organized by curator Connie H. 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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": "In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive and You Were Filled With Joy", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "David Kordansky Gallery", "address": "West 20th Street 520, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/medical-history/hiv-aids", "art/contemporary"], "description": "An art exhibition presented by the New York City AIDS Memorial together with a Chelsea gallery, marking the Memorial's tenth anniversary with an opening reception. It was organized by Keith Fox and Stephen Truax and brings together original and limited-edition works contributed by contemporary artists and artists' estates, honoring New Yorkers lost to AIDS and the heroism of caregivers and activists. Proceeds from artwork sales fund the Memorial's preservation, educational outreach, cultural programming, and new public artworks and performances. 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It is presented by the Climate Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Combining experiences from her homeland of Haiti and her upbringing in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Isaac explores how collective care, memory, and ecological knowledge are crucial to building a more just future. Her lush urban environments invite viewers to consider how relationships to place and community make us more resilient to personal adversities, social injustice, and climate change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/we-cant-dream-alone-51528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70d11ab6a4a07e86689b012238344a8772a6837ca0ae172be5094258be60eeb7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One", "start": "2026-04-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-14T00:00:00-05:00", "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/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One is an exhibition of newly commissioned paintings by Tomashi Jackson shown in dialogue with works by Robert Rauschenberg from The Glass House's permanent collection. 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The exhibition explores the home and autobiography as tools for grounding the self, and underlines the interrelated lives of Paula Cooper, her artists and their families in the New York art world of the 1970s and beyond. Anchored in Shapiro's memories of her childhood, it includes works such as Shapiro's fingerprint drawings and house sculptures, Bartlett's dotted paintings, Gober's dollhouses, Hammons's body prints, Miyamoto's woven forms, and Morton's narrative drawings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-is-for-the-spirit-records-of-the-self-54711/", "official_url": "https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/art-is-for-the-spirit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/57ebec71d2639a044ad3298afe85d173a2bfbba5d17c4824f771bfb5d46d362d-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": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985", "start": "2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://10432.blackbaudhosting.com/10432/tickets?tab=3&txobjid=ce23ab70-3780-425c-af6b-69b587dc0111", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/black-history"], "description": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 is an exhibition on the role photography played in shaping a distinctly Black artistic and cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, it is curated by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis, and overseen at the Mississippi Museum of Art by Kaegan Sparks. Through works by over 100 artists, it shows the medium's versatility as art, design, organizing tool, and community builder. From Kwame Brathwaite's fashion photography to Gordon Parks's photojournalism, it reveals how studio and street photographers, designers, activists, and community organizers used photography to document, imagine, and transform Black life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photography-and-the-black-arts-movement-19551985-66542/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fabd552951a38ecc401d93b1e2a1434a68e1aee6a97f5da1d1ea57e9a413ab9c-2000.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/f292939ab86c16f3b8477579b3b7ec565e196abd3b0f83aeeb3be77e0f9a7c35-2000.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": "", "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": "Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Westwood Gallery", "address": "Bowery 261, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit\" is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Westwood Gallery NYC. Planned with the artist and curated by James Cavello, it is the first presentation of his work following his passing in June 2026. Its centerpiece is \"Full Circle\" (2023), an eleven-panel mixed-media installation selected by MTA Arts & Design for a glass art commission at the Jamaica Bus Depot in Queens, shown alongside seventeen recent works from the final years of his life. Through vibrant abstraction, layered textiles such as Kente cloth and batiks, and expressive mark-making, Simmons explores ancestry, identity, memory, and belonging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/danny-simmons-the-journey-of-spirit-67465/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af53fe2eaaecd2a93b43f285be4994897fc7f1f93eb745512734f8fe903614e5-1200.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": "Beyond the Margins: Bronx Museum Teens Activate the Permanent Collection", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in which fourteen New York City high school students present works they curated from the museum's permanent collection, spanning printmaking, photography, painting, and assemblage by eleven artists. The show, Beyond the Margins: Bronx Museum Teens Activate the Permanent Collection, is the outcome of the museum's Teen Summer 2026 program, guided by educators Duneska Michel, Jinette Jimenez, and Madison Green and shaped by three questions: how artists defy convention, experiment with materials, and use their work as resistance. It frames defiance as a sustained practice of surpassing limitations, inviting viewers to consider what it means to push boundaries in everyday life. Comprehensive records of the works on view are available online for the first time as part of the museum's digitization of its collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beyond-the-margins-bronx-museum-teens-activate-the-permanent-51515/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/40690c78fc45594cdb564279cc45b0e46cf07bdd68aa8793974a4dbecdf7fa8c-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": "Annual Art Auction & Gala", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Flux Factory", "address": "29th Street 39-31", "price": "", "price_from": "80.52", "price_to": "80.52", "tickets_url": "", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "community/fundraising", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "An evening art auction and gala with a DJ, catered open bar and a \"Halloween Hangover\" dress code, held at Flux Factory's newly renovated gallery Flux IV. The organization Flux Factory is behind it, honoring artist sTo Len and Materials for the Arts Executive Director Tara Sansone. The auction features works by Melissa Joseph, Saya Woolfalk, Mary Mattingly, Ivan Argote and Flux alumni, with online bids opening November 1. Celebrating 20 years of Flux auctions, it raises support for the Artist Residency and Exhibition programs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/annual-art-auction-gala-52663/", "official_url": "https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/2026-gala/", "image": ""}, {"title": "AURA", "start": "2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "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/art-collection"], "description": "AURA is an exhibition bringing together works from a private collection, shown at Gladstone Gallery on West 21st Street in New York. Drawn entirely from the AMA Collection, it unfolds through shifting tensions between material and immaterial, between what is seen and what is sensed. It features works by artists including Arthur Jafa, Charles Ray, Christopher Wool, Richard Serra, Laura Owens, and Jenny Saville, alongside a work by Ed Ruscha conceived for AMA Venezia. The show invites visitors to slow down and look closely, letting vision become a physical, emotional, and mental experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aura-66556/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0eaa44a19b1e7ed61838921f68b89524c23d71716cccf2d0865fbf7be013fab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jennie C. Jones and Melvin Edwards", "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, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Jennie C. Jones and Melvin Edwards are included in the group exhibition Hard Art, on view at MoMA PS1 in Queens from November 5, 2026. Hard Art is a major exhibition examining the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. It features over forty artists, juxtaposing historical painters who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices in sculpture, video, sound, and painting, and traces the legacy of three generations of artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jennie-c-jones-and-melvin-edwards-50913/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/744-hard-art", "image": ""}]}