{"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": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session", "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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death", "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": "$20 Early Bird (first 100 tickets), $30 General Admission, plus NY sales tax (8.875%), valid for bot", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/death"], "description": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death is a two-day festival at RESOBOX that brings together artists, thinkers, and makers from Japan and New York to explore life through the lens of death. It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. 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Japanese chef Daisuke Yamada, with over 25 years of experience in Japanese cuisine, has created an exclusive menu for the night, with Japanese food and drinks including Dassai BLUE, shochu, craft beer, and matcha. Koki Kimura, a professional nōkanshi (Japanese encoffinment ritual specialist), performs a special funeral ritual, and guests can also try the Coffin Experience. Speakers, performers, artists, and exhibitors from Memento Mori in NYC join the evening to reconnect, exchange ideas, and reflect on the past two days.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-after-party-a-night-to-celebrate-life-55329/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-after-party/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f91184246d9b41757a8a87a0e079e4d4266bc1fae630abc5615b9b908ee58f4-2000.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": "https://secure.qgiv.com/for/leslie-lohmanmuseum/event/jasonwee", "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": "Mizuhiki: Japanese Decorative Knots – Memento Mori Jewelry", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$50 / person", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "50.00", "tickets_url": "https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ADDNG79130W4G/checkout/JWILNAB2M6TFRMNUT3ZINCCA", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts/paper-crafts"], "description": "Mizuhiki: Japanese Decorative Knots – Memento Mori Jewelry is a hands-on workshop where you make your own accessory from mizuhiki, fine cords of twisted washi paper tied into decorative knots. It is led by Satoi Adams, a mizuhiki instructor who has taught in Boston, New York, and Tokyo since 2018. She guides participants through the basic knots and their meanings, which in Japan mark life's turning points and appear on condolence envelopes at funerals, where unbreakable knots carry the wish that such sorrow never be repeated. 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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": "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": "https://secure.qgiv.com/for/leslie-lohmanmuseum/event/propsopening", "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": "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. Lee. 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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": "ICP Photobook Club: Japanese Women Photographers x Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "International Center of Photography", "address": "Ludlow Street 84, 10002 New York", "price": "Free Event", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/262/tickets?cart=true&date=2026-10-31T11:00:00-04:00&eventId=6aac3deca265aa68f754ed07&membershipIds=9023812", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/feminism"], "description": "A free Wikipedia edit-a-thon and photobook club session at ICP's library, with browsing of photobooks by Japanese women photographers from the exhibition \"I'm So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now\" and editing of the featured photographers' Wikipedia pages alongside a Wikipedia expert. It is presented by the International Center of Photography in collaboration with Art+Feminism, whose edit-a-thons are volunteer-powered sessions updating Wikipedia entries on gender, feminism, and the arts. All levels are welcome with no experience needed, ICP and an experienced editor offer tutorials and guidance, and participants need a laptop, power cord, and a Wikipedia account. Browse-only participants are welcome, and the editing campaign continues online through December 12.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/icp-photobook-club-japanese-women-photographers-x-artfeminis-53180/", "official_url": "https://www.icp.org/events/icp-photobook-club-japanese-women-photographers-x-artfeminism-wikipedia-edit-thon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/289cdfbd979737c37d1e376510ea0efcc784a49dfc857442d33daa4b6194c8e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: Incoming 2026 Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "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": "An exhibition of photography and moving image works by first-year students, on view in the Clive Davis NYU Gallery. 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It is supported by Professors Rose DeSiano and Andrea Geyer along with TAs Jackie Abhulimen and Nicole Motta.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-incoming-2026-exhibition-79231/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Book Event – Gerald Cyrus: Uptown Odyssey", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "International Center of Photography", "address": "Ludlow Street 84, 10002 New York", "price": "$5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/events/262/list?date=2026-11-04T00:00:00-0500&membershipIds=", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "A book event at the International Center of Photography celebrating the release of Gerald Cyrus's monograph Uptown Odyssey, offered both in person and online. It features a conversation between photographer Gerald Cyrus and artist and writer Gioncarlo Valentine. 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