{"title": "Giorgio Griffa/Kamrooz Aram: Paintings", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00-05:00", "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/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition presenting paintings by two artists, Giorgio Griffa and Kamrooz Aram, at the American Academy in Rome, curated by Ilaria Puri Purini. The show sets the two painters in dialogue, examining how abstract painting speaks across time, touching on ornament, presence and loss, and the relationship between modernism and its so-called non-Western response. Griffa, born 1936 in Turin, works with elementary gestures on unstretched, foldable canvases, while Aram, born 1978 in Shiraz, draws on motifs from Islamic artistic traditions such as the arabesque, beginning each composition with a grid he then wipes away. The two artists met in Turin in 2024, and the exhibition extends the conversation they began there.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/giorgio-griffakamrooz-aram-paintings-70965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a047383c1cfd1ceafd08c07d45988a3f5127bf05637364a92b5978aac471f83c-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Carrie Moyer", "start": "2026-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "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/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Carrie Moyer's work appears in the group exhibition 'Gender, Genre, Generation: Women Painting Abstraction', on view from August 15, 2026 to January 3, 2027. The show brings together recent paintings by four female painters of the same generation — Candida Alvarez, Rochelle Feinstein, Carrie Moyer, and Amy Sillman — who have also spent decades as art school professors. It explores how abstraction can still address issues in aesthetics and politics, with the artists building their own visual languages grounded in their lived experience as gendered and political beings in American society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/carrie-moyer-66132/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0fa524bac35d43eb7bdd57e5bbe0af6d1c5a7dcfdadb4f024f156adaf38aad12-2000.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 LLC", "address": "Delancey Street 55", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "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": "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": "Clever, Quick, Magnetic: The Art of Witty Banter", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://oklahomacontemporary.org/events/calendar/?date_filter=this_year&free_only=1&ticketed_only=1", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition of paintings exploring how works can feel connected even when they appear visually distinct, and whether a painting can possess something akin to a personality. It is presented by Oklahoma Contemporary and curated by David Salle, a painter who helped define the postmodern sensibility in painting. The show features works by artists including Amy Sillman, Joe Bradley, Cecily Brown, Josh Smith and Rosa Loy. 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The Brooklyn-based painter and writer Jason Stopa, in his second solo show with the gallery, makes paintings that treat the picture plane as a window, with frames, lattices, and interlocking forms that play on looking through and looking at. The works use thin gestural washes, a more subdued palette, and surfaces layered like ancient Greek ceramic glaze, alongside a yellow grid wall painting that carries the window idea into the gallery's architecture. The show engages with the vocabulary of Modernism and the interplay between viewer and object, revealing how sensory experience is both static and fugitive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jason-stopa-open-window-53968/", "official_url": "https://morganlehmangallery.com/exhibitions/211-jason-stopa-open-window/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cf02df28ba5ca73d8aacee3f35c042b61e5c31d8c585b6ade85d45df574514d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hanna Hur: Annunciation", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Greene Naftali Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://greenenaftaligallery.com/shop/hanna-hur", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Hanna Hur's 'Annunciation' is a solo exhibition of paintings and a drawing at the Greene Naftali gallery in New York, presented on the 8th floor and running through October 31, 2026. The Los Angeles-based painter Hanna Hur is known for a 'rational mysticism,' asking where images come from and treating repetitive gesture as a petitioning of the gods for the image to come near. Each new work begins with a layer of thinned black paint, over which a rectilinear grid is plotted, coupling the biomorphic and geometric modes that abstraction tends to cleave apart. A pair of works silhouettes an absent Madonna drawn from Antonello da Messina's fifteenth-century 'Virgin Annunciate,' evoking the moment when the divine is proximate to the human world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hanna-hur-annunciation-52946/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9cec385f0677ce711681309a180572a082623b2901ce8815f25b17a812ca7ab6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Beautiful & Strict: The Power of Ornament", "start": "2026-10-11T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Von", "address": "Bleecker Street 3, 10012", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.von-der-heydt-museum.de/en/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "'Beautiful & Strict: The Power of Ornament' is an exhibition on the function and significance of ornamentation in art, running from Henri Matisse to the present day. It is held at the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, whose internationally renowned painting collection forms the basis of the show. The exhibition traces how painters such as Henri Matisse and August Macke made colour, form and surface the actual subject of their paintings since the beginning of modernism, alongside contemporary artists such as Philip Taaffe, Katja Davar, Thomas Bayrle, Nevin Aladağ and Susan Hefuna. It focuses on the formal rigour of ornament, its regularity and seriality as well as its playful aspect, and on how patterns can carry social and cultural meaning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beautiful-strict-the-power-of-ornament-66518/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/779e11c04785a34e3c4a76deb37933094d34d6da3ba8cfe17a9f349c76a13e3b-600.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": "AURA", "start": "2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "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/art-collection"], "description": "AURA is an exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery drawn entirely from the AMA Collection, bringing together works by artists including Ed Ruscha, Arthur Jafa, Charles Ray, Christopher Wool, Richard Serra, Laura Owens, and Jenny Saville. It places works and presences in relation, where art emerges as intensity, perception, and shared experience. A significant work by Ed Ruscha, conceived for AMA Venezia, bridges Venice, U.S.A. and Venezia, Italy. Visitors are invited to slow down and look closely, letting vision become a physical, emotional, and mental experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aura-66852/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0eaa44a19b1e7ed61838921f68b89524c23d71716cccf2d0865fbf7be013fab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Io sono un pittore", "start": "2026-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "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"], "description": "The exhibition \"Jannis Kounellis: Io sono un pittore\" is the first to examine the work of artist Jannis Kounellis (Piraeus, 1936 – Rome, 2017) taking painting as its main focus. Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and organised in collaboration with the Archivio Kounellis in Rome, it takes its guiding theme from the artist's often-uttered phrase \"I am a painter\", a statement concerned with his approach to reality rather than technique or medium. Spanning the entirety of Kounellis's career, the show brings together over 35 works from the late 1950s to 2014. Rather than a chronological narration, it unfolds as a constellation of lines linking matter and weight, language and signs, memories and silence, forging a broader, more radical perspective than the conventional view of the artist as a leading figure of Arte Povera.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/io-sono-un-pittore-66528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/743c8ed8a7eaebb8213f32099b2de2c8e37613104030cd790b6ee69aa48885b3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Frances Campani: Compositions", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Kathryn Markel Fine Arts", "address": "West 20th Street 529, 10011 New York", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/still-life"], "description": "An exhibition of still life paintings titled 'Frances Campani: Compositions', with a reception for the artist on opening day. It is Frances Campani's first exhibition with Kathryn Markel Fine Arts. Campani is both a painter and an architect who works to describe light and space, distilling her observations of the world into compositions that reveal the essential of the subject. Her work as an architect informs the abstract, layered approach to depth in her paintings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/frances-campani-compositions-53361/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b605d687fec0e808c734f9bcdf93289f89e7da095f6376f27f7357198f889523-1200.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/53f46ca36a0ec0fb1672c32dc71e92db920cfb583aa7d91637c6a90e3d02f1ec-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Robert Swain Recent 5x5 Color Grid Paintings from 2026 and Smaller Studies from 2015 to 2020", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "David Richard Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://davidrichardgallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new 5x5 color grid paintings and smaller studies by Robert Swain at David Richard Gallery. The gallery presents it as Swain's ninth solo exhibition there, pairing recent large paintings on aluminum panel with acrylic studies on canvas from 2015 to 2020. His grid compositions use individual squares of one color each, with color itself as the content, exploring how adjacent hues blend in the viewer's perception. The presentation is part of a series focused on studies for his most important and experimental grid painting series of the past two decades.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/robert-swain-recent-5x5-color-grid-paintings-from-2026-and-s-52269/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Regina Silveira", "start": "2026-09-26T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-01T00:00:00-05:00", "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": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "Regina Silveira is included in the group exhibition \"Making an Impression: Pioneering Latin American Printmakers\" at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, NC. The show brings together works by four multigenerational artists—Rufino Tamayo, Jesús Rafael Soto, Regina Silveira and Analia Saban—who have redefined printmaking through material and perceptual innovation. Spanning a wide range of techniques, the exhibition expands the medium beyond the flat page and explores the relationship between image, surface and space. Silveira's engraved works extend formal devices into spatial illusions that activate architectural space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/regina-silveira-66131/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0d20114eb1cfbace815796452b22e753524bb6a8bd56c8717d625e854e9a86b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Asher Liftin: Recent Work", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "125 Newbury", "address": "Broadway 395", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Asher Liftin: Recent Work\" is an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by the Brooklyn-based artist, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 PM. It is curated by Arne Glimcher, who also contributes a written introduction in the gallery's 125 Free Press publication, and follows Liftin's Summer 2026 Artist Residency at The Watermill Center. Liftin uses his own photography as source material, translating images refracted in a glass eye into handmade renderings built from grids of acrylic ink broken into multicolored dots in cyan, yellow, magenta, and black. His works evoke pointillism and divisionism, sitting on the border between the human and the mechanical, and reveal the hidden processes underlying seeing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asher-liftin-recent-work-76929/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a35a3cf49cc92cb010673c2c55ee116d8a4156a8e0bfc1fb48492d876966141a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alessandro Pessoli: NY Window", "start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Anton Kern Gallery", "address": "16 East 55th Street, New York, NY 10022", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "\"Alessandro Pessoli: NY Window\" is an exhibition of new drawings presented in a window space at 91 Walker Street. The Italian-born artist Alessandro Pessoli, who lives and works in Los Angeles, is showing 57 new works on paper here, his first exhibition at this window venue and his ninth solo show with the gallery that runs it. The drawings form a floor-to-ceiling installation wrapping the window's interior, presenting non-linear vignettes drawn from Americana, religious iconography, popular culture, politics, and everyday life. In each scene, figures and animals are caught between struggle and euphoria, together reflecting the contradictions, absurdities, and ordinary circumstances of daily life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/alessandro-pessoli-ny-window-51050/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/00314b1fea4df424b4cb96045e25cf2378378081f1c001c8ca5a4bb07bff7de7-1200.webp"}]}