{"title": "Hard Art", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting", "history/black-history"], "description": "Hard Art is a major group exhibition at MoMA PS1 that examines the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. Presented by MoMA PS1, it features over forty artists, juxtaposing historical paintings by practitioners who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices that incorporate sculpture, video, sound, and painting. Organized thematically, the show traces the legacy of three generations of artists including Frank Bowling, Mark Bradford, Peter Bradley, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, Melvin Edwards, Jennie C. Jones, Joe Overstreet, and Raymond Saunders, alongside new and recent works by Aria Dean, Torkwase Dyson, Nikita Gale, Suzanne Jackson, Rindon Johnson, Caroline Kent, Carolyn Lazard, Eric N. Mack, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and SoiL Thornton. Its title derives from Bradley’s description of The DeLuxe Show, and the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hard-art-107897/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/744-hard-art", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60b4bea10ca3d34be83825a35d42f613d7e9e433c2f0ef190de875aa5bfa9c35-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Open House Celebrating Hard Art, Masao Gozu, New York Fashion at PS1, and Fred Wilson", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A free, all-ages open house day of programs and activities inspired by MoMA PS1's new exhibitions, with family workshops, artist talks, a sound bath, a makers market, and a 50th-anniversary stoop sale. Organized by MoMA PS1, it celebrates the opening of Hard Art, an exhibition on the legacy of abstraction by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today; a family workshop builds window-objects inspired by Masao Gozu: Windows and Bars; talks consider the history of the fashion exhibition New York Fashion at PS1, 1980–1984; and Howardena Pindell and James Little join director Connie Butler to revisit PS1's Afro-American Abstraction (1980). The day also includes movement sessions with Healspace and a Makers Market with artists from The Fortune Society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-house-celebrating-hard-art-masao-gozu-new-york-fashion-81367/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/events/879-open-house", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5d7d330dd0010b59afc2bd73109d6e55fb83c5194520998e346b692cb7b53ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gender, Genre, Generation: Women Painting Abstraction", "start": "2026-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "384 Broadway, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "A group exhibition of abstract painting by four women artists. Candida Alvarez, Rochelle Feinstein, Carrie Moyer, and Amy Sillman, born between 1947 and 1960 and active since the 1980s, explore how abstraction can still address questions of aesthetics and politics. Working with material experimentation and their own visual languages, they draw on lived experience as gendered and political beings in American society, and share decades-long careers as art school professors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gender-genre-generation-women-painting-abstraction-107889/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4729970246332be95cb64452becca4210fa53c689a4a86244b75c15c28d9ae5e-1200.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": "Mississippi Museum of Art", "address": "380 South Lamar Street, Jackson, MS, 39201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "Alex Katz, David Salle in: 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", "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. 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It is presented at Louis K. Meisel Gallery, whose artists include originators of Photorealism and contemporary Photorealists. The works show classic roadside motels, gas stations, diners and endless highways, with some paintings placing abandoned cars and desolate streets at their center. Others, by artists such as Tom Blackwell and Peter Maier, turn close-up views of vehicles' glossy surfaces and intricate machinery into semi-abstract compositions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/on-the-road-53645/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f743926d5db438bfc97b8bd24ccf8c621818f2e2c2272210db0e01e8736c7cd4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Karen Barbour", "start": "2026-10-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Harkawik", "address": "88 Walker St, New York, NY 10013, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An art exhibition at the gallery Harkawik in Lower Manhattan showing the work of Bay Area painter Karen Barbour under the title 'Diamond Garden for Cornelia'. It is the gallery's third exhibition with Barbour and features canvases she has worked on since the 1980s, which evolved from realistic scenes of her life into blocky, dismembered bodies and then abstractions. The title painting began with a story about precious elver eels that slips into the diamond trade and a family quip that Barbour would one day make her niece Cornelia a diamond garden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/karen-barbour-52980/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6b3dec216e2164cb7b4f350a39da4a4a05e8d49b7c4f1d9ad069d651422b04ff-1200.webp"}, {"title": "High on MediaFair WarningsFrom the 80s E.V.Neo-Conceptualists", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "HA/HA, 250 Bowery, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10012, United States", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/conceptual-art"], "description": "\"High on Media\" is a community-sourced group exhibition of works from the 80s E.V. Neo-Conceptualists, many of them cherished small pieces lent from people's homes, opening at HA/HA. The title comes from the song \"Same Way\" by Sandra Seymour of the 80s all-girl band Bite Like A Kitty, which, like the works of these artists, modeled the scenarios of our current media engulfment. Peter Nagy (1959–2026), co-founder of Gallery Nature Morte, was going to write an essay for the show. Among the many artists included are Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, Carroll Dunham and Julia Wachtel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/high-on-mediafair-warningsfrom-the-80s-evneo-conceptualists-53063/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98b05bdf409d075dcbf9eefedcdb1043a30f68ae5b874c18ba991e72b144606f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art is for the Spirit", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Paula Cooper Gallery", "address": "521 West 21st Street", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "\"Art is for the Spirit: Records of the Self\" is a group exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery at 521 West 21st Street, with an opening reception on October 29 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Organized by Ivy Shapiro, it brings together work by Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Kazuko Miyamoto, Ree Morton, Elizabeth Murray, and Joel Shapiro. The exhibition explores the home and autobiography as tools for grounding the self, and underlines the interrelated lives of Paula Cooper, her artists and their families in the New York art world of the 1970s and beyond. Anchored in Shapiro's memories of her childhood, it includes works such as Shapiro's fingerprint drawings and house sculptures, Bartlett's dotted paintings, Gober's dollhouses, Hammons's body prints, Miyamoto's woven forms, and Morton's narrative drawings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-is-for-the-spirit-54711/", "official_url": "https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/art-is-for-the-spirit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/57ebec71d2639a044ad3298afe85d173a2bfbba5d17c4824f771bfb5d46d362d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Westwood Gallery", "address": "Bowery 261, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit\" is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Westwood Gallery NYC. Planned with the artist and curated by James Cavello, it is the first presentation of his work following his passing in June 2026. Its centerpiece is \"Full Circle\" (2023), an eleven-panel mixed-media installation selected by MTA Arts & Design for a glass art commission at the Jamaica Bus Depot in Queens, shown alongside seventeen recent works from the final years of his life. Through vibrant abstraction, layered textiles such as Kente cloth and batiks, and expressive mark-making, Simmons explores ancestry, identity, memory, and belonging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/danny-simmons-the-journey-of-spirit-67465/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af53fe2eaaecd2a93b43f285be4994897fc7f1f93eb745512734f8fe903614e5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: Another View Book Launch and Signing Featuring Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and Awol Erizku (Phaidon)", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature"], "description": "A panel and book launch with signing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging, held in Riese Lounge on the 1st floor and with limited seating. Editor Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and photographer Awol Erizku present \"Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists\" (Phaidon). The book explores the studios, living spaces, and creative processes of twenty notable Black artists through 150 never-before-published photographs by Erizku, with profiles based on interviews by Brielmaier and an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A government-issued photo ID is required for entry, and guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-another-view-book-launch-and-signing-featuring-53240/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/events/dpi-presents--dpi-professor-isolde-s-book-signing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0cc6fc700a494b95fd85d0c9b2f56c6dd16ddf448a0d0f3bca12c35f284dd46-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now", "start": "2026-06-26T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "From $19", "price_from": "19.00", "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": [], "description": "\"Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now\" is an art exhibition bringing together major works from the museum's collection by 29 artists alongside recently acquired contemporary pieces. It highlights the role of British curator Lawrence Alloway, who introduced Pop art to American audiences through the 1963 exhibition Six Painters and the Object, the first museum presentation of Pop art in New York. Historic works show how artists turned to advertising techniques, reproduction and mass media, while contemporary artists explore identity, internet culture and everyday life. Highlights include Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian, Yayoi Kusama's INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP TO THE UNIVERSE and Alex Da Corte's ROY G BIV.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/guggenheim-pop-1960-to-now-53891/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d56148991511e400ebf71656ecfd668d6667ecf5f347607bc783003e543ac3e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Homage El Shabazz", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Petzel Gallery", "address": "West 25th Street 520, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of six intimately scaled paintings from James Little's Homage El Shabazz series, made between 1985 and 1989. In each work, four triangular panels converge at the center to form an \"X\" — a tribute to political activist Malcolm X, who used the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz following his pilgrimage to Mecca. Little applies hand-mixed oil and wax to canvas, producing subtly shifting fields of color over structured, hard-edge compositions. The show marks the largest presentation of the series since 1992, and a public book launch and signing with Little in conversation with Aruna D'Souza takes place at the gallery on November 14.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/homage-el-shabazz-54872/", "official_url": "https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/james-little3", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fcb3eb848d2b1b69a113d0849dd60df5021e543d95cab6e62da7e4db81df5949-1200.webp"}]}