{"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, "tickets_url": "", "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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Jennie C. Jones and Melvin Edwards", "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, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Jennie C. Jones and Melvin Edwards are included in the group exhibition Hard Art, on view at MoMA PS1 in Queens from November 5, 2026. Hard Art is a major exhibition examining the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. It features over forty artists, juxtaposing historical painters who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices in sculpture, video, sound, and painting, and traces the legacy of three generations of artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jennie-c-jones-and-melvin-edwards-50913/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/744-hard-art", "image": ""}, {"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, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art/murals"], "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": "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. 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Cafritz (1947–2018), an arts patron, educator, and civil rights activist who cofounded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, bequeathed the majority of her collection to the museum. Her bequest included over four hundred works by more than two hundred artists of African descent, spanning paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper. This is the first exhibition to tell a story of Cafritz as an art collector, organized by curator Connie H. 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It brings together sculptural shaped canvases made between 2000 and 2014 in Hinman's Bowery loft, showing the culmination of more than six decades of exploration into form, color, light, and space. The first exhibition devoted to the Gems series was held at the Butler Institute of American Art in 2011, and this presentation offers the series in its entirety. Hinman pioneered the shaped canvas from the early 1960s, and these works, with luminous color and dynamic geometry, mark a key chapter in shaped painting in American abstraction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/charles-hinman-gems-67466/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e57adc8e64c04b145c55c4b970da97f8f85fcb17ff444b872c23812a24ddf55-1200.webp"}, {"title": "EXHIBITION | Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco", "start": "2026-09-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts", "address": "West 39th Street 323, New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "'Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco' is an exhibition at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts' Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, showing prints exchanged by the artists, photographs, and ephemera from the early years of the Asilah Cultural Moussem's Engraver's Atelier. The Moussem was an annual international arts festival founded in 1978 in Asilah by artist Mohamed Melehi and diplomat Mohamed Benaïssa, rooted in the Casablanca School and centered on Moroccan heritage, local materials, and communal labor. Melehi invited Robert Blackburn to establish the Engraver's Atelier, bringing the cooperative model of his New York workshop to Asilah, with Sudanese master printmaker Mohammad Omer Khalil directing it from 1979 to 2018. Curated by Imani Congdon with the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and titled after one of Blackburn's woodcuts, the exhibition celebrates the friendships and access to printmaking that developed there, showing collective culture as an act of civic recovery and democratic participation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/exhibition-asilah-oui-robert-blackburn-in-morocco-56554/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dafd7dff20a9961d86d43a0977b664c3659179e3c71d480086cddf87b1b52aaa-2000.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", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz", "art"], "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": "Spotlight: Sam Mattax", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Fredericks & Freiser", "address": "West 24th Street 536, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "'Spotlight: Sam Mattax' is an exhibition at the Fredericks & Freiser gallery, showing three recent large-scale paintings. It is the first presentation in the gallery's new Spotlight series, conceived as a focused studio-visit-style view of an artist's work as it takes shape. The paintings by Sam Mattax are built through dragging, scraping, and rebuilding, and mark a shift in his practice as forms multiply. The result is a new density and intricacy, as the works move from accumulation toward structure within the abstraction itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spotlight-sam-mattax-52780/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4d9a7287dcfd181545406680e63ba879ffac481c861e21a36d783e2f36d82f42-2000.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": "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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=29ff61fa-a369-4e0d-98de-cf461eacef33", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/activism"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition Raise Your Voice: New York Activism at the Museum of the City of New York. This one-hour tour looks at the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in the exhibition. MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive, and author or editor of publications including Signs of Change and Signal. The tour is part of the museum's monthly series with curator Sarah Seidman and its Free Late-Night Wednesdays.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-54056/", "official_url": "https://www.mcny.org/event/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557cdbb318a20c720dc819a312a33377618c649fbe9849bd536c255e1e7b3141-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tools of Worship", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Petzel Gallery", "address": "West 25th Street 520, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "\"Tools of Worship\" is a solo exhibition by artist Tschabalala Self at Petzel Gallery, her first with the gallery and her first New York gallery show since 2020. It brings together new paintings and her first sculptural works in concrete, continuing her investigation of the human figure as both object and site of exchange through which meaning, desire, memory, and belief circulate. Her figures are built from found and repurposed textiles and conceived as characters in a theatrical world, with identity treated as a mutable material rather than a fixed fact. The exhibition proposes that both art and the human body are conduits of reverence and projection, asking what it means to encounter an artwork as something alive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tools-of-worship-54873/", "official_url": "https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/tschabalala-self2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec7976b783d16ef6dc012788b61e39618872e838fca6043fbddf8ac064673dac-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One", "start": "2026-04-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-14T00:00:00-05:00", "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/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One is an exhibition of newly commissioned paintings by Tomashi Jackson shown in dialogue with works by Robert Rauschenberg from The Glass House's permanent collection. It marks the centennial of Rauschenberg's birth and includes two of his Spread-series works, Ring Master and Recital, made in 1980, alongside additional pieces from The Glass House collection and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Jackson's new paintings draw on archival images of Jewel's Catch One, a Black lesbian-owned nightclub in Los Angeles that under owner Jewel Thais Williams offered a welcoming space, cultural programming, and social support to Black and queer communities. Curated by Cole Akers, the exhibition is organized by The Glass House in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tomashi-jackson-and-robert-rauschenberg-the-catch-one-66559/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "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"}]}