{"title": "From the Heart Mountain Internment Camp to “The Godfather”: The Life and Art of S. Neil Fujita", "start": "2026-11-17T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-17T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design", "history"], "description": "A talk by artist and educator Kenji Fujita about his father, Sadamitsu Neil Fujita, and his life and work. It traces Neil Fujita from imprisonment at the Heart Mountain internment camp and service in a segregated all-Nisei regiment in World War II to designing album covers at Columbia Records for musicians like Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus. It also covers his own company, where he designed logos, packaging, book covers, and the iconic design and illustration for Mario Puzo's The Godfather (1969). The talk is presented by MFA Fine Arts and touches on the recently opened Barnes Foundation exhibition 'Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America.'", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/from-the-heart-mountain-internment-camp-to-the-godfather-the-55738/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/from-the-heart-mountain-internment-camp-to-the-godfather-the-life-and-art-of-s-neil-fujita", "image": "https://noky.io/images/030bbd77f8d3003e8aed925aaaf7223c016d7b7c6f40ff14935aea192056852e-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-17T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Hank Willis Thomas", "start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Live Arts", "address": "West 19th Street 219, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "Hank Willis Thomas at Ford Foundation Live Gallery is a gallery exhibition of new works by artist Hank Willis Thomas, on view from September 16, 2026 into January 2027. 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": "Omari Douglin", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "29 Lafayette Ave", "address": "29 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art"], "description": "A public mural titled 'Junction' by the visual artist Omari Douglin, on view to the public. Commissioned as part of BAM's Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative, it was inspired by the Hamm Archives, a collection chronicling the institution's history and programming. The work layers archival images from BAM's Next Wave Journals, magazines, posters and advertisements from the 1980s and 1990s, reimagined in Douglin's painting style, with jazz musician Miles Davis at its center drawn from a 1994 GAP advertisement. Its yellow background echoes Keith Haring's 1984 poster for Secret Pastures, reflecting how one artistic discipline informs another.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/omari-douglin-51205/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/483cddb2282d252cd98e2bd1d26badd1b1b3b611b363beae28f3aef9509f5d51-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "17.35", "price_to": "17.35", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An evening conversation on the American furniture movement, held at the New York School of Interior Design. Curators Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht will interview Dennis Miller, author of the book Art + Furniture: An Oral History of the American Furniture Movement, published by Abbeville Press. The book grew out of an oral history project at the school's archives and tells the movement's story through its protagonists' words, with contemporary and archival photography. The evening includes a reception and ends with a book signing, with copies available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-54344/", "official_url": "https://www.nysid.edu/events-calendar/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller", "image": "https://noky.io/images/146338c651cf249f12c250a75849e6bed51fc8b9d89d3e776df1b646927829a4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Musical Notes and Brush Strokes: Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents a Family Concert", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T11:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "Free (tickets required, capacity extremely limited, advance registration recommended)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["art/pop-art", "music/jazz"], "description": "A family concert in which an all-star band plays music connected to the art on view at a museum, open to all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center presents the concert at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where visitors can hear musicians respond to and interpret works from the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New. It centers on the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, who played the saxophone and whose life included music as an important part, bringing art and jazz together in fresh and unexpected ways.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/musical-notes-and-brush-strokes-jazz-at-lincoln-center-prese-75754/", "official_url": "https://whitney.org/events/jazz-at-lincoln-center-family-concert", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b7d545fc0e426aafb4aeafe1e9ed928b9c2d556f4565b13601ca2198359a0024-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kikuo Saito: Alphabet Paintings", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "James Fuentes Gallery", "address": "52 White St, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Kikuo Saito: Alphabet Paintings is an exhibition at James Fuentes Gallery presenting a major series of abstract paintings. It introduces the Alphabet Paintings, works on gridded canvases stenciled with random Latin letters that the Tokyo-born artist Kikuo Saito (1939–2016) produced from the 1990s to the 2010s. After moving to New York in 1966, Saito worked in both visual art and theater, assisting Color Field painters and bringing improvisation and chance from the stage into his art. The series explores color, form, and vision, treating letters not as messages to read but as a new world to live with and transform.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kikuo-saito-alphabet-paintings-53285/", "official_url": "https://jamesfuentes.com/exhibitions/kikuo-saito-alphabet-paintings", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e1114b3db0d9f64645d63c7c898663382bd7ee64064db513579240d03f1d8f5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Noguchi Talks: Alanna Heiss and Martin Puryear – Two American Sculptors in the Venice Biennale", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free; Reservation required (space is limited)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A free public conversation at The Noguchi Museum marking the 40th anniversary of Isamu Noguchi's 1986 presentation in the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. It brings together Alanna Heiss, who commissioned Noguchi's exhibition What Is Sculpture?, and sculptor Martin Puryear, who represented the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale with Liberty/Libertà. Moderated by Hitomi Iwasaki, the discussion considers what it means to represent America on an international stage and how artists' cultural backgrounds, racial identities, and personal histories inform that question. It is presented alongside the museum's exhibitions Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale and No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75; space is limited and reservations are required by email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/noguchi-talks-alanna-heiss-and-martin-puryear-two-american-s-108000/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-18-1800-noguchi-talksalanna-heiss-and-martin-puryeartwo-american-sculptors-in-the-venice-biennale/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee96e8d41fed77dd593df824574ab9c0ca11e351a8cc32d4c2b17ca8e73cd4bc-1200.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, "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": "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, "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"}, {"title": "Art for Art House: The Posters of Peter Strausfeld", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "film"], "description": "Art for Art House: The Posters of Peter Strausfeld is an exhibition of striking linocut film posters. It celebrates German-born artist Peter Strausfeld, who made more than 300 posters for London's legendary Academy Cinema from 1945 onward. The Academy was a leading art house from 1931 to 1986, introducing audiences to filmmakers like Fellini, Kurosawa, Truffaut, Bergman, Wajda, and Ray. His posters captured the spirit of each film rather than its stars or scenes, and the works on view come largely from the collection of Michael Lellouche.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-for-art-house-the-posters-of-peter-strausfeld-67101/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/da1aec275bb41f1727666fdf39b1220b3c91553e618de73100a5ef4221178a50-2000.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", "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": "Performance Lecture: Jason Wee on Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "Free RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/gender"], "description": "A performance lecture opening the exhibition PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee. Artist Jason Wee explores the history of photographer Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima's collaboration on the photo series Ordeal by Roses. Through a visual presentation, he considers how props, bodies, and performance were used to construct and complicate Mishima's self-made mythology, reflecting on masculinity, desire, and imperial imagination.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/performance-lecture-jason-wee-on-eikoh-hosoe-and-yukio-mishi-53566/", "official_url": "https://secure.qgiv.com/for/leslie-lohmanmuseum/event/jasonwee/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c68ea7f8352fc8f039bc0657664da1e9163bde2eb9fb7f18abda1989a5c6ac8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$15/$10", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts", "history/gilded-age"], "description": "A lecture by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, held in the Members' Room and online at The New York Society Library. She presents her new book 'Designing the Gilded Age', the catalog for an exhibition opening at The Met in mid-October and closing in early February. The book presents 150 rarely seen design drawings from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany, revealing the artistry behind his iconic stained-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, and interiors. It also highlights the contributions of other designers, including women and immigrants, whose identities have been subsumed under the Tiffany name.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/alice-cooney-frelinghuysen-designing-the-gilded-age-drawings-79656/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/louis-comfort-tiffany-design-drawings", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19d26317a388bbcbaac2357ecaec04016d9dc67604ead147d435b0ff65542d61-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Two Seasons, Two Strangers preceded by Nagahama", "start": "2026-11-07T14:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/comics", "film/drama"], "description": "A live-action feature in two parts, adapted from manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, paired with a short film. Directed by Sho Miyake, it follows a summertime meeting between Nagisa and Natsuo and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Ben-zō. Winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, with Yuumi Kawai, Mansaku Takada, Shim Eun-kyung and Shinichi Tsutsumi. A Q&A with Sho Miyake follows the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/two-seasons-two-strangers-preceded-by-nagahama-56704/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005070-two-seasons-two-strangers-preceded-by-nagahama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d3a286f85f01a34f1b5beb1e4aa7b60e01afa9ff0a3506ee54f3d0e18b8a2125-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening: PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art holds the opening of the exhibition 'PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee', curated by Yasufumi Nakamori. The show centers on Jason Wee's new commissioned sculptural installation and performance, made in response to Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe's series Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), which staged images of novelist Yukio Mishima in Tokyo between 1961 and 1962. Wee's work focuses on the props from those photographs—a garden hose, a mallet, a candle, a painterly backdrop—presented as metal and fabric prints within a spiral of rope encoded from a lecture script audible on headphones. The exhibition also traces Hosoe's photographs across three editions of the 1963 photobook Barakei, designed by Kohei Sugiura, Tadanori Yokoo, and Kiyoshi Awazu.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-props-from-barakei-eikoh-hosoe-and-jason-wee-53565/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d6d92b08a35aae46099bbf25ea743fe65a9acd7d20edc6e9ac719fe7f5d0d2a5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sad Vacation", "start": "2026-11-08T21:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/crime-drama"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Sad Vacation\". Director Shinji Aoyama adapted it from his own novel as the third and final film of his \"Kitakyushu Saga\". It stars Tadanobu Asano as Kenji, a young man scarred by an unhappy childhood who, while drifting through odd jobs, recognizes his employer's wife as the mother who abandoned him and plots to infiltrate the household. A rich, moving human drama of families assigned and chosen, captured with striking, somber beauty by cinematographer Masaki Tamura.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sad-vacation-56715/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005077-sad-vacation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e05f12e0867c19ebcfa67a5a64d98e60c493973261f28f5d71f77374179f2a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Curt Bloch and his Underwater Cabaret", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Society of Illustrators", "address": "East 63rd Street 128, 10065 New York", "price": "$10.00 – $15.00", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/collage", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A lecture about Curt Bloch, a Jewish writer who, while in hiding from the Nazis in the Dutch city of Enschede, produced 96 handmade magazines with his own collages and 492 handwritten poems between the summer of 1943 and his liberation in the spring of 1945. The lecture is presented by designer Thilo von Debschitz and Simone Bloch, Curt Bloch's daughter, with poet Samuel Haecker reading a selection of the poems. Bloch's satirical works, recently rediscovered and made into a digital archive honored with the Grimme Online Award, offer a deeply personal perspective on life under Nazi persecution. Presented in partnership with the German Consulate General New York, the event ends with a small gift for each guest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/curt-bloch-and-his-underwater-cabaret-55953/", "official_url": "https://societyillustrators.org/event/curt-bloch/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/83e212d68c33e5561f2f9df539c35a9d0b9ddb7fdb2a1d35eb496aeea48e70a1-2000.webp"}]}