{"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, "tickets_url": "https://newyorklivearts.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVt00000ZXEfyMAH", "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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "DPI Presents: The Object/Photograph: From the Archives of the Department of Photography & Imaging", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "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": "The exhibition \"The Object/Photograph: From the Archives of the Department of Photography & Imaging\" presents original photographic prints drawn from the study archive of NYU Tisch's Department of Photography and Imaging. It was assembled by Mark Jenkinson, an associate arts professor in the department, and honors the legacy of Lee D. Witkin, an early adjunct professor and pioneering gallerist whose donations include many of the key works. The show traces photography from its roots in the first documented camera obscura to its power to reveal truths, from evidence for the General Theory of Relativity to a 1965 photograph that helped lead to the Voting Rights Act. Among the treasures rediscovered in drawers are works such as Joel Meyerowitz's dye-transfer print \"Street Busker, Paris, France, 1967\"; RSVP is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-the-objectphotograph-from-the-archives-of-the-d-53232/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8eb95652ef86032381977a024cd69e4822a894f55efdc6a44ed2b4bdaaa25da1-600.webp"}, {"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. It is presented by Flushing Town Hall and curated by Stephanie S. Lee, with participating artists including Andreas Rentsch, Eva Mallis, Gina Minielli, Gus Philippas, Jim Richards, Tony Gonzalez, and Zachary Schulman. The exhibition asks what it means to be American today, offering many faces and stories rather than a single definition. 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": "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": "", "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"}, {"title": "Bethany Collins", "start": "2026-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-14T00:00:00-05:00", "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", "society/politics"], "description": "Bethany Collins takes part in the group exhibition \"We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment\" at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The exhibition fills the museum's main galleries and is organized around five topics: civics, history, family and kinship, map-making, and care for the environment. Its title quotes \"Bless this Land,\" a 2019 poem by former US poet laureate and Indigenous activist Joy Harjo, an important influence on the show. Guided by American democratic ideals of participation and experimentation, it invites visitors to consider their own role in conversations about the past and future of the United States, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bethany-collins-66128/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba7f3513fe9acec48cf83a6c0a0478436c1e83edf85250da286ffd6ceeab0424-1200.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", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Donald Moffett", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "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", "history/us"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational writings, Common Sense and The American Crisis, with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Donald Moffett, and Maynard Monrow. Donald Moffett contributes a newly commissioned text-based work using graphic design strategies to deliver the message that power lies with us. As 250 years ago, the country navigates deep division, and the exhibition presents contemporary art as offering hope, inspiration, and momentum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/donald-moffett-50912/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82926d8d53a2a2e39799b64bf9dd1628a0da5444c084f8eec898db4e8c12a086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-03-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/queer"], "description": "An exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art pairing photographs with a new sculptural installation and performance. It centers on Jason Wee's commissioned work, created in response to Eikoh Hosoe's series Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), which staged images of novelist Yukio Mishima in Tokyo in 1961–62. Wee's installation focuses on the props from those photographs—a garden hose, a mallet, a candle, a painterly backdrop—mounted within a spiral of rope encoded with a lecture script audible on headphones. The show also traces Hosoe's photographs across three editions of the landmark 1963 photobook, curated by Yasufumi Nakamori.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/props-from-barakei-eikoh-hosoe-and-jason-wee-53559/", "official_url": "https://leslielohman.org/exhibitions/props-two-works-with-jason-wee-and-eikoh-hosoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d6d92b08a35aae46099bbf25ea743fe65a9acd7d20edc6e9ac719fe7f5d0d2a5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fall 2026 BFA Photography and Video Student Exhibitions: Clio Bildman, Weston Lee Andrews, and Yikai Wang", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985", "start": "2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://10432.blackbaudhosting.com/10432/tickets?tab=3&txobjid=ce23ab70-3780-425c-af6b-69b587dc0111", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/black-history"], "description": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 is an exhibition on the role photography played in shaping a distinctly Black artistic and cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, it is curated by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis, and overseen at the Mississippi Museum of Art by Kaegan Sparks. Through works by over 100 artists, it shows the medium's versatility as art, design, organizing tool, and community builder. From Kwame Brathwaite's fashion photography to Gordon Parks's photojournalism, it reveals how studio and street photographers, designers, activists, and community organizers used photography to document, imagine, and transform Black life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photography-and-the-black-arts-movement-19551985-66542/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fabd552951a38ecc401d93b1e2a1434a68e1aee6a97f5da1d1ea57e9a413ab9c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening: PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Beyond the Margins: Bronx Museum Teens Activate the Permanent Collection", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in which fourteen New York City high school students present works they curated from the museum's permanent collection, spanning printmaking, photography, painting, and assemblage by eleven artists. The show, Beyond the Margins: Bronx Museum Teens Activate the Permanent Collection, is the outcome of the museum's Teen Summer 2026 program, guided by educators Duneska Michel, Jinette Jimenez, and Madison Green and shaped by three questions: how artists defy convention, experiment with materials, and use their work as resistance. It frames defiance as a sustained practice of surpassing limitations, inviting viewers to consider what it means to push boundaries in everyday life. Comprehensive records of the works on view are available online for the first time as part of the museum's digitization of its collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beyond-the-margins-bronx-museum-teens-activate-the-permanent-51515/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d787b64e17ee6a8f35bac7c1dff033196fa3e0fa015a2b12e2f87e8f6fe840f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Turn the volume up!", "start": "2026-08-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-07-11T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/activism", "art"], "description": "Turn the volume up! is an exhibition of photographs, paintings, prints, sculpture, installation, and archival materials from the Nasher Museum's collection connected to social justice and community organizing. It examines how artists, activists, and everyday people have used their voices to challenge injustice, build communities, and shape public life. Organized by curator Xuxa Rodríguez with support from Julianne Miao, it is divided into five thematic sections: Remarks, Organize, Records, Dissents, and Petitions, and features artists such as Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Guerrilla Girls, and Sam Durant. The title references Zohran Mamdani's quotation of KRS-One's 2020 anthem after his election victory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/turn-the-volume-up-66539/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/467755ae83b551864485070858ee14458f7c3a82e63d1a08db0d01a82c48ba31-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THOMAS DEMAND", "start": "2026-05-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.mak.at/jart/prj3/mak-resp/main.jart?reserve-mode=reserve&content-id=1759298032500&rel=en", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "THOMAS DEMAND is an exhibition of new works by the artist Thomas Demand at Matthew Marks Gallery. It shows recent pigment prints with operatic titles such as Parsifal V and Tannhäuser XVI, alongside UV prints on copper including Schilf / Reed, Books and Window. The gallery presents these large-scale images as a survey of the artist's current work, on view through November 7, 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/thomas-demand-66833/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/786d8f30ce3a6c2e661721e7d623dfb5ab012ebb265f739cc06e1299c0b1ee34-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Renée Cox: Take A Good Look", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Ethan Cohen Gallery", "address": "West 19th Street 251, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/identity"], "description": "Take A Good Look is a solo exhibition at Ethan Cohen Gallery's Chelsea location, opening with a reception and running through October 31. The Jamaican-American photographer Renée Cox shows works from the early 1990s to the present, tracing over three decades of her photography, self-representation, and the politics of the image. Placing her own body at the center of pictures she has historically been excluded from, she reworks visual languages of Western art, Christianity, colonialism, and popular culture, from Yo Mama's Last Supper to the Queen Nanny of the Maroons and Soul Culture series. The show opens alongside the gallery's solo presentation of Cox at The Armory Show in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/renee-cox-take-a-good-look-52514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/edc4eed0eab65484f2a348c349f4d3595a1eaab21a69e2964c03adbda605468e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country", "start": "2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/joy-reading-book-club", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/us"], "description": "\"Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country\" is an exhibition at the New York Society Library marking the United States' 250th anniversary. It explores how the library, founded twenty-two years before the Declaration of Independence, bore witness to the earliest days of the U.S. government, lending books to President Washington and serving as the first Library of Congress. On view are a first edition of Thomas Paine's \"Common Sense\", a 1776 New York newspaper chronicling the path to Independence, a first edition of the Federalist Papers, and books read by George Washington and other founding fathers. The exhibition is open daily in the Assunta, Ignazio, Ada and Romano Peluso Exhibition Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/collective-witness-a-library-for-a-young-country-56807/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db34d8ac8d84ad03a789dbd97df2e586cd0d52cc882f707a6611ff1aed9b3b34-2000.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": "", "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"}]}