{"title": "I Said What I Said: Steve Locke in Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-reid-pharr-tickets-2003828790855?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "A gallery conversation in Chelsea between artist Steve Locke and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr, moderated by curator Evan Garza. It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. 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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": "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": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35689/production/1293599", "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. 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Her multidisciplinary practice explores heritage through historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora, and soil hand-dug from the True Blue Plantation grounds in South Carolina, investigating the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adebunmi-gdadebo-67140/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/adebunmi-gdadebo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5e0eaacc1619d0a6b3d1e86c1e8456f7ed89189f42e0cdaf56a1ed703d42756-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Author Talk with Hettie Judah", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Stand4 Gallery and Community Center", "address": "78th Street 414, 11209 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "14.64", "price_to": "14.64", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-enter-the-art-world-after-tickets-2003944603253?aff=ebdsshios&sg=39071ed1a609fb330882651154f6ebaa2b5221fdad92c62abe4cde7833fa5ce984727752e83278ab0cbd26c3c0aa589d1b5eb408a5ae8b40eb22a9211f849d7326b2c425c533743bb9b1877b", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "literature"], "description": "An 'After Session' author talk with Hettie Judah at Stand4 Gallery, held alongside the exhibition 'And I am aware of my heart, it opens and closes'. 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The play, by Naima Ramos-Chapman, centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends and examines how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time and incorporating movement and dance, it aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The reading is followed by a talkback with the creatives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naima-ramos-chapman-in-place-of-monuments-51069/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-new-works-naima-ramos-in-place-of-monuments", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Doron Langberg", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "69.95", "price_to": "69.95", "tickets_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/doron-langberg", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting", "literature"], "description": "A bookstore event celebrating the first monograph of painter Doron Langberg, with a conversation followed by a signing. Rizzoli Bookstore hosts Doron Langberg in conversation with Gaby Collins-Fernández. The book brings together more than 100 paintings spanning ten years of the artist's practice, with new writing by Ian Alteveer, hannah baer, and Gaby Collins-Fernández and a conversation with artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Salman Toor. 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It is curated by Hanif Abdurraqib, a BAM Curator and MacArthur \"Genius,\" now in its third year, and this year spotlights powerful voices from across the African Diaspora. The evening on offer pairs versatile composers and instrumentalists Meshell Ndegeocello and Samora Pinderhughes, who share a night of words and music under the series' banner. The program also includes Poetry Overnight at BAM, Southern Oracles by the Black Air Poets, Be Holding based on a Ross Gay poem, and Stones in the Water with Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, Anis Mojgani, and Abdurraqib.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-guess-it-was-my-destiny-to-live-so-long-51198/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca322bacd44652032ba8e3d49e9c02203731c1f147933a90f0e38b4f8fdc7558-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Artist Talk", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An artist talk at Cooper Union, where the Fall 2026 Henry Wolf Chair in Photography is joined by a curator to discuss his practice as an artist and critic. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, a British/Ugandan artist and writer, speaks with Phil Taylor, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum. Their conversation centers on the role of order in the context of his work. 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Ondine Chavoya, John D. Murchison Regents Professor of Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, and David Evans Frantz, Executive Director of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation. Admission is free with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/curator-talk-queer-spaces-queer-contexts-79194/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b56e0515585abc33d4dd78fe12d0563b94b8ab641e9b01f096ba352d4bb611c3-2000.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"}]}