{"title": "From the Spoon to the City: Exploring Modernist Flatware with Dung Ngo", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "$20 Adult, $10 Museum Member, $12 Educator, Senior, Student, Visitors with Disabilities", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.si.edu/cooperhewitt/events/01a16f90-9d52-db2c-7dd5-9c0d4b0b285b", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "An illustrated lecture at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum exploring modernist flatware and what knives, forks, and spoons by modern designers reveal about their creators' ideas. Design writer Dung Ngo, author of Knife Fork Spoon: Modernist Cutlery 1900-2025 and collector of modern flatware, discusses how designers from Gio Ponti to Zaha Hadid rethought the place setting, in conversation moderated by Emily Orr, Associate Curator and Acting Head of Product Design and Decorative Arts. The program is presented in conjunction with Design Across Time: Exploring the Smithsonian's Design Collection and includes an optional audience Q&A. It takes place in the museum's wheelchair-accessible Lecture Room with live CART captioning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/from-the-spoon-to-the-city-exploring-modernist-flatware-with-52199/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/from-the-spoon-to-the-city-exploring-modernist-flatware-with-dung-ngo-11-10-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8400d8c596e642077be7113e0e93856ba360f610ee4aa3eac44a627014ef50d6-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "17.35", "price_to": "17.35", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-tickets-2002836723555?aff=oddtdtcreator", "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. 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It is led by Fan Kong, an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Queens, New York City, whose practice includes biomaterial experimentation, installations, and public programs. Inspired by Gaetano Pesce's Nobody's Perfect chair, the session looks at how designers and scientists have reimagined materials as active, transformative systems. Participants learn to make kitchen-friendly bioplastics, visit the galleries, and create their own stained bioglass samples.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/how-we-make-bioglass-with-fan-kong-52198/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/how-we-make-bioglass-with-fan-kong-11-05-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e848d246f256dd5d74f18686a8c6e2da119fe27d8efb4a49df1c14b5b90247b-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": "Dialogue and Discourse: Jewish Patronage of the Wiener Werkstätte", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "$14 General; $10 Students, Seniors, and Jewish Museum members", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.thejm.org/events/01a03eef-72fd-ee1f-9443-d71d0f28d173", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design", "history/jewish-history"], "description": "A talk at the Jewish Museum in its Scheuer Auditorium, part of the Dialogue and Discourse series and the Gertrude and David Fogelson Lecture. It is a conversation between Elana Shapira, a cultural and design historian and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Lisa Silverman, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 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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. 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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"}, {"title": "Dialogues on Design: Ben Pentreath", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "32.90", "price_to": "32.90", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dialogues-on-design-ben-pentreath-tickets-1993940866808", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "Dialogues on Design is a talk series at the New York School of Interior Design. This evening features award-winning architectural designer and decorator Ben Pentreath in conversation with host Dennis Scully. Pentreath will discuss his career and his new book co-authored with his husband Charlie McCormick, A Year at the Parsonage, which will be available for purchase. His work embodies traditional and classical architecture and urbanism in contemporary society, and his honors include the 2023 Richard H. Driehaus Prize and a 2026 OBE for Services to Design.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dialogues-on-design-ben-pentreath-54343/", "official_url": "https://www.nysid.edu/events-calendar/dialogues-on-design-ben-pentreath", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b0e7a89a791b0636d05b51970f39e3c33feae1be2fae213c49a780ffb1b7f110-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. 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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": "John Procario: Freeforms", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Museum of Arts and Design", "address": "Columbus Circle 2, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/460/calendar?eventId=621a47c2d751820835e8b51b&cart", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An exhibition of light sculptures and furniture by designer John Procario, titled John Procario: Freeforms, at the Museum of Arts and Design. Procario twists strips of ash wood into sinuous, ribbon-like forms, embedding LEDs discreetly to create the illusion of endless movement. His Sculpted Sofas designs follow the shape and direction of each freeform wood base. The works emerge from an organic, intuitive process honoring nature's natural curves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/john-procario-freeforms-54043/", "official_url": "https://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/john-procario-freeforms", "image": "https://noky.io/images/13f1228541b586abd282dd1f420ea793fe0ad5cceec06608e06017279d0580e3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte", "start": "2026-07-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.thejm.org/events/9ec9c046-870e-49ea-3d8d-636fd0e85c31", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "An exhibition of more than 200 objects by some 30 Jewish women artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, the multidisciplinary Viennese collective active from 1903 to 1932. It sheds light on the role Jewish women played as artists, designers, patrons, and tastemakers shaping modernist aesthetics in early 20th-century Vienna and beyond, and marks the first in-depth presentation of these women. Special emphasis is placed on Vally Wieselthier, in ceramics, and Felice Rix-Ueno, in textile design. The show was organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, in cooperation with MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, and is curated by Kristina Parsons with curatorial consultancy by Anne-Katrin Rossberg.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/modernity-and-opulence-women-of-the-wiener-werkstatte-56631/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/12323029b3daba95b850037a71ee888cd336ae2d342f2747b88bb1313d6dd3df-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ASL Studio Afternoon: Clay Sculptures", "start": "2026-11-08T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "Free of charge, advance reservation required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.thejm.org/events/01a03aad-3714-8448-e931-f348e80b508a", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "ASL Studio Afternoon: Clay Sculptures is a clay sculpture workshop for participants in the ASL Community at the Jewish Museum. Visitors will explore the exhibition 'Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte' and create their own works inspired by the sculptures on view. The workshop is led by artist Youmee Lee, a Korean American artist whose work draws on Asian folklore and American Sign Language poetry. All Access Programs are free of charge and require advance reservation; ASL students will not be admitted and no voice interpretation will be provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asl-studio-afternoon-clay-sculptures-75692/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110826-asl-studio-afternoon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e05f82760b86e04de25a4a89bb8f6e339908329665e57f44d5d8d9a9e6622959-1200.webp"}, {"title": "A Closer Look Art History Seminar", "start": "2026-11-09T11:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T12:45:00-05:00", "place": "The Jewish Museum", "address": "5th Avenue 1109, 10128 New York", "price": "$28 General; $22 Jewish Museum members, students, and seniors; includes Museum admission", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.thejm.org/events/046c7003-0027-7f77-d76d-1907f605b566", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/art-history"], "description": "A Closer Look Art History Seminar is a class tied to the exhibition Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte, held in the Wilf Family Salon. It is taught by Libby Kandel, Public Programs Coordinator. The class explores how historic forms of education and art historical classification relegated craft as a labor form for women, then looks at parallels between emergent feminist movements in Vienna and New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-closer-look-art-history-seminar-75694/", "official_url": "https://thejewishmuseum.org/program/110926/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/59eed08f0ab3bc61bd66b94d36a1b9446b50b40d2368b2af78d1a03305cc5132-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Humanist modernity: Maciej and Stanisława Nowicki", "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"], "description": "\"Humanist modernity: Maciej and Stanisława Nowicki\" is an exhibition at the Center for Architecture running from October 1, 2026 to March 27, 2027, presented in collaboration with the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Poland. It showcases the work of architects Stanisława Sandecka-Nowicka and Maciej (Matthew) Nowicki, two significant figures in the history of American and Polish architecture. Named for a concept the couple developed in the 1940s, it explores their vision of modernism as a human-centered approach to design, concerned with who a building is really for and how it binds a human being to the space around them. The first exhibition to present the Nowickis as equal partners, it follows a practice bridging drawing, building, graphics, and structure across Europe, America, and India, and asks what their architecture offers us today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/humanist-modernity-maciej-and-stanisawa-nowicki-51772/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa01a6b012151ea0217700782c431fd65704888dba654a04117472bbf6046f2c-2000.webp"}]}