{"title": "Framing America: Portraiture, Identity, and Belonging", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35689/production/1293599", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "A panel talk with photographers Gina Minielli, Jim Richards, Tony Gonzalez, and Zachary Schulman, moderated by curator Stephanie S. Lee. The conversation explores each artist's photographic practice and approach to portraiture, along with ideas of identity, representation, belonging, and lived experience reflected in the Portraits of America exhibition. It ends with an audience Q&A, and a closing reception begins beforehand. All are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/framing-america-portraiture-identity-and-belonging-52655/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/framing-america-portraiture-identity-and-belonging", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0932397ff4db5ff4428ce1a10df1276c9c4e32fae39f5081b0535ed05b9d591-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Portraits of America Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "society"], "description": "Portraits of America is a group photography exhibition presenting portraits of individuals whose histories, cultural backgrounds, and lived experiences reflect the evolving idea of American identity. 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It does not attempt to define what an American looks like, but invites viewers to look more closely at the people who make up the country.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/portraits-of-america-exhibition-52640/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/401277076e30ab30836f860fc25d68400b6b924b6b12e95a0d9807f51d50562d-600.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: Incoming 2026 Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An exhibition of photography and moving image works by first-year students, on view in the Clive Davis NYU Gallery. Curated by the students themselves, it brings their individual practices into dialogue with the frameworks of their DPI first-year seminar. 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Thomas, trained as a photographer, reinterprets archival images with new or rarely used technical processes, and viewers often must shift position or use a tool such as a camera flash to experience the whole work. The three works shown use 1940s photographs from U.S. government agencies of schoolchildren, many of Japanese descent, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and their titles reference the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Mitsuye Endo. The works examine what it means to be American and how we reconcile the contradictions of history and national identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hank-willis-thomas-54321/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6b782475ce0af6b70903f5ec4df136f24627893c7c5f66fca61bd5920797c81-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Said What I Said: Steve Locke in Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-reid-pharr-tickets-2003828790855?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "A gallery conversation in Chelsea between artist Steve Locke and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr, moderated by curator Evan Garza. It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. The discussion explores Locke's interdisciplinary practice and his engagement with portraiture, desire, race, and memory, examining the histories of racial violence, anti-Blackness, and the Western art historical canon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-r-50911/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandergray.com/news/3231-i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e9d2d26d198261cf3bfd188ddce7c05c7d94958da02efae161e071d08cdd6d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$180 hair & makeup + portrait (30 min); $50 portrait only (about 10 min); two-day festival admission", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "180.00", "tickets_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living is a portrait session where you can be photographed for your own iei, the portrait placed at a Japanese funeral, while you are still alive. It is part of the Memento Mori in NYC event at Resobox and is led by New York photographer Tokio Kuniyoshi with hair and makeup artist Michael. In Japan more and more people are choosing their own funeral portrait themselves, and the session is less about preparing for death than about honoring the person you are today. Photos are retouched and delivered as digital files on the spot, with hair and makeup or portrait-only options.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iei-a-portrait-of-the-life-you-are-living-55325/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/600a7a691778b6c7249c987caadd9b73fecddb4aeb60970da6a0481797cd0f56-2000.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": "Cinématique", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-23T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Ryan Lee Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 515, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "film"], "description": "Cinématique is an art exhibition at RYAN LEE Gallery pairing painter Gideon Rubin with two photo-based artists, Luis Baylón and Martine Gutierrez, with cinema as the frame through which they consider tone, composition, and mood. Rubin paints from old film stills and vintage photographs, often turning his figures away to explore memory, history, identity, and anonymity. Baylón was a Spanish street photographer who captured dramatic, filmic moments of everyday Madrid, shown here in New York for the first time, while Gutierrez creates staged self-portraits drawing on cinematic influences, including works never before exhibited. Gallery partner Jeffrey Lee brought the pairing together, noting that Baylón's observations and Gutierrez's constructions are bridged by Rubin's painting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cinematique-55478/", "official_url": "https://ryanleegallery.com/exhibitions/cinematique", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72c98f10e24419c4d7290269d9dd36fbacc909f9311fa14da19d1182461998b4-2000.webp"}, {"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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Artist Talk", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An artist talk at Cooper Union, where the Fall 2026 Henry Wolf Chair in Photography is joined by a curator to discuss his practice as an artist and critic. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, a British/Ugandan artist and writer, speaks with Phil Taylor, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum. Their conversation centers on the role of order in the context of his work. Registration is required, but a ticket does not guarantee entry as the free event is first-come-first-served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa-henry-wolf-chair-in-photography-art-75366/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa-henry-wolf-chair-photography-artist-talk", "image": ""}, {"title": "In Conversation: Derek Fordjour and Katy Siegel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The FLAG Art Foundation", "address": "West 25th Street 545, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-conversation-derek-fordjour-and-katy-siegel-tickets-2003216805390", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "The artist Derek Fordjour sits down for a public conversation with Katy Siegel, a professor and curator at Stony Brook University. The talk marks the exhibition 'Spotlight: Derek Fordjour', which features a new work by the artist alongside a commissioned text by journalist and author Donovan X. Ramsey. The conversation is part of the Foundation's Spotlight series, pairing new artworks with commissioned writing to create dialogues between visual art and authors, critics, and scholars. The discussion starts half an hour after the event opens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour-and-katy-siegel-56577/", "official_url": "https://www.flagartfoundation.org/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a335b845ec19f51ba3b214373e0d6bad4099accd0385f0fcf4a70189effe431f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MOCA PERFORMS - Echoes of Arrival: Becoming", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "General Admission: $20 | MOCA Member Admission: $15", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-5", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "MOCA PERFORMS – Echoes of Arrival: Becoming is a live performance at the Museum of Chinese in America in which immigrant artists share stories of migration, transformation, and becoming. It was conceived by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li and is devised and performed by Shan Y. Chuang, Nikkiesha N. McLeod, Timmy Ong, Pascal Phoa, Jeremy Rafal, Nedelka Sotelo, and Fang Tseng. Seven immigrant artists from Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago reflect on their journeys to the United States—what they had to learn to survive and build a life, what they chose to carry with them from home, and what new parts of themselves emerged along the way. Through personal narration, poetry, music, dance, and stand-up comedy, they share these experiences on stage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-54048/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-5/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f76fac89e905abd68b0a491b4c2addb494e8784b35b03b7c92e6f7bd935dcc6c-1200.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"}]}