{"title": "In the Room: Sixty Years on the Front Line of History", "start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T20:30:00-05:00", "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", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history"], "description": "A free talk in The Great Hall at Cooper Union with Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer David Hume Kennerly, celebrating the release of his career retrospective book 'In the Room: 60 Years on The Front Lines of History.' Kennerly, who photographed every American President after serving as Gerald R. Ford's chief White House photographer, shares the stories behind his iconic images. He will be joined in conversation by ABC News Presidential Historian Mark K. Updegrove. The event coincides with an exhibition of his work at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, and Rizzoli Bookstore will sell books on site.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-the-room-sixty-years-on-the-front-line-of-history-75370/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/index.php/events-and-exhibitions/events/room-sixty-years-front-line-history", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3915c5a91eccc51a6d4ea4d29fbe7fd36bd92af420d0718f34592f287d5f0db7-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Harry Benson: Milestones", "start": "2026-10-05T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cavalier Galleries", "address": "3 West 57th Street, Ground Floor & 4th Floor, New York, NY, USA 10019", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "\"Harry Benson: Milestones\" is a gallery exhibition of photographs by Harry Benson. Cavalier Galleries presents a survey of the photographer's career, also celebrating his 59-year marriage to Gigi. It shows works never before exhibited alongside icons like the Beatles' pillow fight at the George V hotel in Paris. 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KAHANE: Twenty-Five Years of Photographing the Iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade", "start": "2026-11-18T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Wallace Hall", "address": "980 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10028", "price": "Free; donations appreciated", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "occasion/thanksgiving"], "description": "An afternoon talk with photographer and author E.A. KAHANE, who will show her photographs of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and share her stories about the beloved tradition. Circle of Friends at Saint Ignatius Loyola presents the program, welcoming Kahane, who has photographed the parade for over twenty-five years from her third-floor window. Her two books, Come, Join the Parade! and Between the Balloons: My Thanksgiving Parade, will be available for purchase and signing at the program. 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It shows images from the private collection of the John Sadovy Estate, taken by the freelance photojournalist who covered the revolution on assignment for Life magazine. Over four days in Budapest and near the Hungarian-Austrian border, Sadovy created more than 600 photographs, including freedom fighters, damaged Budapest streets, Cardinal Mindszenty after his release, and refugees crossing into Austria. His work, published in Life and honored with the 1957 Robert Capa Gold Medal, records both the hope of liberation and the violence of the uprising.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/recap1956-through-the-lens-of-john-sadovy-53068/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d8af077db72eb2af1c4c2d14ed42b626d90984aa03a0d4e0f825ed17288d271-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Avedon", "start": "2026-11-06T10:40:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "film/documentary"], "description": "Avedon is a documentary film screening at a New York cinema, opening on November 6, 2026. Directed by Ron Howard, it traces the life and legacy of photographer Richard Avedon, whose portraits of world leaders, pop culture icons and supermodels helped shape an image-driven world. Drawing on unprecedented access to his personal archives, the film features never-before-seen stills, behind-the-lens footage and new interviews with his closest collaborators. It explores how his singular eye both reflected and reshaped the visual language of the 20th century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/avedon-53137/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/avedon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/348e40f70caa018d8e93894c52e35c66cd9bd2d74abb537c801e41152cc108e1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Blue Velvet: A Polaroid Diary", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "$50.00", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "50.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "film/thriller"], "description": "An evening at a bookstore celebrating the book \"Blue Velvet: A Polaroid Diary\", a behind-the-scenes look at David Lynch's 1986 cult classic through on-set Polaroids taken by its makeup artist, Jeff Goodwin. Goodwin appears in conversation with Tony Nourmand, followed by a signing. The book gathers hundreds of never-before-published Polaroids documenting the film's genesis and production, annotated with technical notes and anecdotes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/blue-velvet-a-polaroid-diary-55426/", "official_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/blue-velvet-polaroid-diary", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87f143d5068f0a3f9e3788629a6eb23d8c36c8078ce778529a9668d4fba7c373-600.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: The Object/Photograph: From the Archives of the Department of Photography & Imaging", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "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": "PERCHANCE TO DREAM: Royal and Noble Bedchambers by David LEVENTI", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-30T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Rick Wester Fine Art", "address": "West 26th Street 526, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "An exhibition of photographs titled 'Perchance to Dream: Royal and Noble Bedchambers' at the gallery Rick Wester Fine Art in Chelsea, New York. It shows work by architectural and editorial photographer David Leventi, who has spent ten years photographing the rarely seen private sleeping quarters of kings, queens and titled rulers in the United Kingdom and Europe. The pictures include Queen Marie-Antoinette's once secret bedchambers and the King's brocade-curtained chamber at Versailles, alongside rooms at palaces and halls in Germany, England, Russia, France and Italy. The gallery frames the work as a look at the wealth and history behind the aesthetics of royalty, and a foil to today's efforts to establish a monolithic regime.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/perchance-to-dream-royal-and-noble-bedchambers-by-david-leve-55355/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b80e6a586d51c3df696e91341886a21dbf311498aa6a316fa28edcd22e9d37b6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LeVar Burton: Take My Word for It", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "54.26 USD", "price_from": "54.26", "price_to": "54.26", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir"], "description": "LeVar Burton: Take My Word for It is a book release event with the award-winning actor LeVar Burton, held in The Great Hall at Cooper Union. Strand Bookstore hosts the evening, in which Burton discusses his new memoir, Take My Word for It. The memoir traces eras of his life, from his roles in Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow to growing up during the Civil Rights Movement, and reflects on storytelling, family, and advocacy for liberation and equity. The books provided will be unsigned, as there will be no signing at the end of the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/levar-burton-take-my-word-for-it-86952/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8fe242f1e63331676f469339aebe6fdd39743c8ccf8994599f3d849587a8bca7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Beverly Hills Housewife", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "$34.95", "price_from": "27.95", "price_to": "75.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "literature"], "description": "A book event celebrating 'The Beverly Hills Housewife: Hockney's Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool' at the Rizzoli Bookstore. Author James Cahill will be in conversation with Patrick Monahan, followed by a signing. The book weaves together David Hockney's discovery of Los Angeles with the story of Betty Freeman, the collector he painted in 'Beverly Hills Housewife' (1966-67), moving between art history and anecdote.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-beverly-hills-housewife-55427/", "official_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/beverly-hills-housewife", "image": "https://noky.io/images/faf056c38c2bdb24978fc26ba318c58f95ecbd6d040caa2608073a03262fa52d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "17.35", "price_to": "17.35", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An evening conversation on the American furniture movement, held at the New York School of Interior Design. Curators Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht will interview Dennis Miller, author of the book Art + Furniture: An Oral History of the American Furniture Movement, published by Abbeville Press. The book grew out of an oral history project at the school's archives and tells the movement's story through its protagonists' words, with contemporary and archival photography. The evening includes a reception and ends with a book signing, with copies available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-54344/", "official_url": "https://www.nysid.edu/events-calendar/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller", "image": "https://noky.io/images/146338c651cf249f12c250a75849e6bed51fc8b9d89d3e776df1b646927829a4-1200.webp"}, {"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, "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"}]}