{"title": "Ed Young’s Bright Worlds: Gesture and Feeling in 60 Years of Picture Books for Children", "start": "2026-05-14T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/illustration", "literature/childrens-books"], "description": "An exhibition of original artwork from 15 significant projects by Ed Young (1931–2023), a storyteller and illustrator of children's books, alongside his sketchbooks, family photos, and personal effects. It is the first U.S. retrospective of his 60-year career, focused on works drawn from his personal story and Chinese folktales. It traces his life from Shanghai, Hong Kong, and art school in Los Angeles to New York, where he began illustrating children's books in 1962, and highlights projects like Lon Po Po, which won the Caldecott Medal, The House Baba Built, Voices of the Heart, My Mei Mei, and Bright World. It is part of MOCA's Luminaries for America250, a yearlong celebration of Chinese American historymakers at the Semiquincentennial.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ed-youngs-bright-worlds-gesture-and-feeling-in-60-years-of-p-54050/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86f8338f00c8a0146978b39bc6277c4b5d677e8aba4925d5c991d695cb260848-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-05-14T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Eric Aho", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "65.00", "price_to": "65.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/eric-aho", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/landscape-painting", "literature/books"], "description": "An evening book event at a Manhattan bookstore celebrating the first comprehensive monograph on a contemporary landscape painter. The painter, Eric Aho, appears in conversation with John Yau, followed by a signing. The book spans four decades of his artwork, from his Ice Cuts to his Fire Paintings, Wild Meadow, and Firefly series. It honors and furthers the tradition of painting nature through a blend of abstraction, realism, memory, and environmental experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/eric-aho-55422/", "official_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/eric-aho", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fcedd796b6b3bd3e82a4228e3e333b5a85642b2ca7b1fcff648a70ec00626ed5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Piccolo", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Italian American Museum", "address": "Mulberry Street 151, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books"], "description": "Piccolo is a Story Time event for children ages 3 to 9, held with parental supervision. 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Rizzoli Bookstore hosts Doron Langberg in conversation with Gaby Collins-Fernández. The book brings together more than 100 paintings spanning ten years of the artist's practice, with new writing by Ian Alteveer, hannah baer, and Gaby Collins-Fernández and a conversation with artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Salman Toor. Langberg, prominent among a new generation of figurative painters, explores relationships, sexuality, nature, family, and the self, proposing how painting can portray and create queer subjectivity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/doron-langberg-71735/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69954f0992d83d47abf4af5493091de6286cb064bdaa7516fe376ca03fa4d2aa-600.webp"}, {"title": "Hilda Shen: Their Landscapes", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "\"Hilda Shen: Their Landscapes\" is an exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist's recent ceramic sculptures and prints, shown in the museum's Cheng Gallery. It inaugurates Solo Artist Projects (SAP), a MOCA initiative presenting one-person exhibitions of new work by artists of Chinese descent living and working in New York City. Shen's practice is marked by an inquisitive scrutiny of nature and an instinct for deconstruction, with forms that can appear both ancient and futuristic, naturally occurring and handmade, undergoing construction and decay. Her details and motifs open up conversations cutting across post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hilda-shen-their-landscapes-54046/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aed91fbf6df010c700d9d8fe8be0220be86865d046df4f0468de728928cc5d61-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Photobook Talk: Andrew Lichtenstein — This Short Life", "start": "2026-11-06T18:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bronx Documentary Center", "address": "Courtlandt Avenue 614", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "society/activism"], "description": "The Bronx Documentary Center hosts a photobook talk in which documentary photographer Andrew Lichtenstein presents his book This Short Life. The book combines photographs with oral histories to profile 12 Americans working toward a more just and equitable society during a period of political and social upheaval, exploring activism, community and imagined futures. Lichtenstein's third book in a trilogy about America, it shares stories of struggle, sacrifice and redemption through intimate portraits and first-person testimony. The talk covers the people and stories in the book and his collaborative approach, and is followed by an audience Q&A, with books available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photobook-talk-andrew-lichtenstein-this-short-life-51499/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7669a18a43b98154fe0217ca8bed7028d52841c3d14c209f72c2f04e696c6ac6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Portrait of a Friend", "start": "2026-11-04T14:45:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T15:45:00-05:00", "place": "Children's Museum of Manhattan", "address": "West 83rd Street 212, 10024 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "\"Portrait of a Friend\" is a drop-in program at the Children's Museum of Manhattan for children ages 4 and younger, held in the museum's PlayWorks area. The museum invites children to ask who their friend is and use different drawing tools and collage materials to make a portrait of someone special to them. It is part of the series of the same name and runs as a drop-in session. 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Mother Creatrix Collective artists open with short presentations on their work in the show, including entering or reentering the art world after becoming caregivers. Hettie Judah then leads an open, hour-long conversation with questions about the art world, her work, and navigating a creative life. She will sell and sign copies of her new book, 'How to Enter the Art World... AFTER a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, leaving it in disgust', and refreshments follow.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/author-talk-with-hettie-judah-79604/", "official_url": "https://www.mothercreatrixcollective.com/events/author-talk-with-hettie-judah", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f4451de70eca7a0b331b5d249d5f5226b2bad39b97bc710aef862936ddf9d4b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fall 2026 BFA Photography and Video Student Exhibitions: Clio Bildman, Weston Lee Andrews, and Yikai Wang", "start": "2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-06T12:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sva-bfa-photography-and-video-fall-2026-student-exhibitions-receptions-tickets-2002764549681?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "The Fall 2026 BFA Photography and Video Student Exhibitions present work by three students: Clio Bildman, Weston Lee Andrews, and Yikai Wang. Presented by the BFA Photography and Video department, it is the first cycle of its fall 2026 student exhibitions, held at 214 East 21st Street. On the 2nd floor, Clio Bildman shows “Inside the Stranger” and Weston Lee Andrews shows “A Road Trip to Philly,” while Yikai Wang shows “Temporary Homes” on the 5th floor. The works were selected through a semesterly open call, and viewing outside the reception hours requires an email appointment for non-SVA visitors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-2026-bfa-photography-and-video-student-exhibitions-clio-55723/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4618033109cad451d46807e8f10ffac0fd9be5d2c15d1db36298615804d42325-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Young Ethical Explorers", "start": "2026-11-01T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-01T12:30:00-05:00", "place": "New York Society for Ethical Culture Hall", "address": "West 64th Street 2, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["community/kids/sunday-school", "religion/humanism"], "description": "Young Ethical Explorers is a Humanist Sunday school for children ages 3 to 11, meeting with an activity at 11:00am, surrounded by peace-play on the rooftop playground and a community lunch. It is led by Audrey Kindred and Simba Yangala for the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Sessions explore personal identity and integrity, appreciation and respect for others, and knowledge of religions, philosophies, and social concerns. Topics are treated in an age-appropriate way through discussion, storytelling, dramatization, music, art, games, and field trips, and newcomers are always welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/young-ethical-explorers-54350/", "official_url": "https://ethical.nyc/events/young-ethical-explorers-13/2026-11-01/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a834f35a365d723d21aaca78354ce4bfa22de3d016151c7b370d4ae7e8c7a5d6-1200.webp"}]}