{"title": "Jane Benson | her her", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sargent's Daughters", "address": "Broadway 370, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["literature/fiction/gothic-fiction", "art/conceptual-art"], "description": "\"Jane Benson | her her\" is an exhibition at Sargent's Daughters in New York, running from October 30 to December 5, 2026. It debuts a major new series of monumental mixed-media works by the New York-based conceptual artist Jane Benson, whose practice spans drawing, sound, new media, and sculpture. The show presents text-based drawings that reframe Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a lyrical exploration of womanhood and rage, grounded in the chapters narrated by the monster. The works include drawings on translucent paper mounted on iridescent Plexi, a large-scale print dissolving the text into chromatic points, drawings of elm trees echoing Shelley's own sketches, and a sung score performed by mezzo soprano Hai-Ting Chinn that plays at timed intervals around the gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jane-benson-her-her-55680/", "official_url": "https://www.sargentsdaughters.com/her-her", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e179d2c67b2dc05c0acd8b0ec580bc14aa94f6b0d6ae989806f02be8cd1f131-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sargent's Daughters", "address": "Broadway 370, 10013", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Shawn Bitters | Sublime Banter", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sargent's Daughters", "address": "Broadway 370, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Shawn Bitters | Sublime Banter is an art exhibition at the gallery Sargent's Daughters in New York City. The show is by the artist Shawn Bitters. It runs from November 7 to December 19, 2026. The sources do not say more about what the works are about.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shawn-bitters-sublime-banter-55681/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art", "start": "2026-09-26T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00-05:00", "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/contemporary"], "description": "A group exhibition of contemporary art titled \"In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art\". It is curated by Simone Krug and shows works including Julia Phillips's \"Veiled Purifier\", Sarah Lucas's \"Victoria\", Mona Hatoum's \"Silence\", Hugh Hayden's \"Start 'Em Young\" and Marlene Dumas's \"Kissing\", in media from ceramic, silk, bronze and marble to tights and kapok, laboratory glass tubes, chain link fencing and oil on canvas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-our-image-the-fragile-body-in-contemporary-art-66523/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9db3bbdf5f75cab506bca923b6d8d73fff5f0a49a8b5c8c6ac63fc9f374040ec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PAF New York 2026: Bestiary of Darkness", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1998987410155", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "An evening of live performances and moving-image art, part of PAF New York 2026. It features a new video by Valentýna Janů following a female protagonist through the nocturnal metropolis, live activations of the screening, a performance by Vojtěch Fröhlich scaling the building, and a musical set by 33. PAF, an international curatorial platform focused on contemporary art and the moving image, is behind it, under this year's theme Bestiary, exploring how images are classified, circulated, and transformed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/paf-new-york-2026-bestiary-of-darkness-71718/", "official_url": "https://pioneerworks.org/programs/paf-new-york-2026-bestiary-of-darkness", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22aea5e5752518baa1511faa4ad439120c3d1c8d22451d2674401039a911d753-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nights at the Circus", "start": "2026-09-20T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Nan Ke Gallery", "address": "East 40th Street 15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Nights at the Circus\" is a solo exhibition of paintings by Lingrou Xie at Nan Ke Gallery. It takes its title from Angela Carter's magical realist novel of the same name, in which an aerialist with possibly invented wings is pursued by a journalist asking whether she is fact or fiction. Xie's paintings show women who rarely reveal themselves in full, their figures receding into plants, light and layered images drawn from cinema, literature and memory. The gallery space becomes a temporary \"circus tent\", asking whether women can use existing fantasies to reinvent themselves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nights-at-the-circus-66860/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bb18b3d9b7490456963f2c5efdf79ea8e90472877a51ce98301333416402d983-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://fristartmuseum.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art", "nature/animals"], "description": "\"Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman\" is an exhibition featuring 17 artists who work with both analog and emergent technologies to visualize the interrelationship between humanity, other species, and the earth itself. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, it presents artists such as Ian Cheng, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Marguerite Humeau, Josèfa Ntjam, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Saya Woolfalk, who use digital animation, augmented and virtual reality, motion capture, and generative software to challenge the view that human exceptionalism allows us to ignore caring for the more-than-human world. The exhibition unfolds in three sections: one biological and ecological, focused on extinction, evolution, and interspecies entanglement; one psychological, with playful stories of metamorphosis; and one ontological, bridging ancestral and contemporary belief systems to reawaken humanity's sense of interconnectedness with the earth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shimmer-dreaming-the-posthuman-66526/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d68746237d2e63dab180e1280a43434aa9c5bbb53994f3472f619d73d7e34e1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Susan Sontag – Seeing and Being Seen", "start": "2026-06-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "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/exhibition", "literature"], "description": "An exhibition on the US-American author and critic Susan Sontag (1933–2004), a public intellectual who sparked controversial debates through her writings and nonconformist demeanor. It is a reprise and expansion of the show at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2025), curated by Dr. Kristina Jaspers and Dr. Birgit Bosold. Central to it are reflections on visibility, self-presentation, and representation, including a new section on Sontag's traces in Berlin and one on her influence on queer culture. It features works by Susan Sontag, Jack Smith, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Hujar, August Sander, Ingmar Bergman, The Supremes, and others, alongside new video interviews.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/susan-sontag-seeing-and-being-seen-66550/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1b0a6488106b1ae2af0dfb4d701609c1493f4237230411754c6341631f5e5a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Saya Woolfalk: The WoodsWoman Method", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "nature"], "description": "An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, on view as the first chapter of a multi-year initiative, showing process materials from a new commission alongside related works from the Museum's permanent collection. It centers on artist Saya Woolfalk's WoodsWoman, a mythic botanist-healer who inhabits her 'Empathic Universe,' an imagined utopian future in which humans and nature exist in harmony. Woolfalk applied this lens to the Museum's holding of nearly 2,000 objects, selecting works by artists such as Huma Bhabha, Robert Blackburn, Abigail DeVille, and Martin Wong that explore the cosmos, human-nature relationships, speculative worlds, and collective storytelling. The exhibition, curated in collaboration with Eileen Jeng Lynch, also works as a laboratory, with programming that invites audiences into Woolfalk's creative process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/saya-woolfalk-the-woodswoman-method-51514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71be0b1d8b81334cfebdbdd189b8fae5495167971002e32f2c8e8f51c576e304-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jaume Plensa: Remote, Serene, Ethereal", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Galerie Lelong & Co.", "address": "West 26th Street 528, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An art exhibition featuring three tall painted-bronze portrait sculptures alongside large charcoal drawings made directly on the gallery walls. The works are by Jaume Plensa, co-presented by GRAY and Galerie Lelong. The portraits—Remote (Yolandita), Serene (Ita), and Ethereal (Martina)—explore the space between the universal and the individual, drawing on figures from Plensa's community in Barcelona. A public reception with the artist opens the show.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jaume-plensa-remote-serene-ethereal-52804/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91d7ff31fe0083874bf0e52e8bf135d48ec4cc16cd3c2b063f379eb7a109b394-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Wangechi Mutu", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Lenfest Center for the Arts", "address": "West 130th Street;West 129th Street 615, 10027 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.leapevents.com/event/wangechi-mutu/pre-sale", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Wangechi Mutu, a visual artist based in Nairobi and Brooklyn, presents recent work spanning film, sculpture, and installation from the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Her talk is part of Speak Now, a new speaker series at Columbia University School of the Arts featuring artists whose work reaches a broad public. Rachel Grace Newman, Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, gives a response, and Sarah Cole, Dean of the School of the Arts, introduces the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/wangechi-mutu-52818/", "official_url": "https://www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2026-events/speak-now-wangechi-mutu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/928aa1b9a39f477d7ac7eee4c61f9970f91e97fe8bbd1215f9925f6cd86b4cba-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Constance DeJong Time’s Wander", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Bureau", "address": "Duane Street 112", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition of new work by the artist Constance DeJong, titled Time's Wander, presented on the gallery's lower level. The artist works across fiction, language, and image-based pieces for performance, theater, audio, and video installations. The show pictures an expanded sense of the everyday, showing an air full of fields, particles, and wave forms, and a night inundated with the cosmic past. The text accompanying the exhibition is written by Lucas Blalock, and the works are described as units of observation that bring the vibrancy of matter to mind.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/constance-dejong-times-wander-51728/", "official_url": "https://bureau-inc.com/exhibitions/constance-dejong-times-wander", "image": ""}, {"title": "\"Coloric\" Crescendo", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "All Street Gallery", "address": "77 East 3rd St, New York, NY", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "\"Coloric\" Crescendo is a solo exhibition of J. Bonegard's latest works, shown at All Street Gallery's third street location. The Boston-based visual artist, a former orthopedic surgeon, layers found materials, textiles, twine, and acrylic paint in a method he established in 2023. Curated by Oladunni Oladipo, the show draws on mythology, spirituality, and music from opera to gospel and blues, with each composition building like an escalating ballad toward a climactic moment. An opening reception accompanies the exhibition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/coloric-crescendo-50938/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d87e0a23aae8139e9ef6c37d7d791561df8968ecc3c3f0ac652934d3c80ef691-2000.webp"}]}