{"title": "Jeffrey Meris", "start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Jeffrey Meris is a talk by the multidisciplinary artist of that name, part of the Talks series of lectures presented by MFA Fine Arts. Meris, born in 1991 and raised in the Bahamas, makes work that engages the relationship between materiality and larger cultural and social phenomena. His works shown on the event page include the sculpture To the Rising Sun, made of stainless steel and underarm crutches, and X, made of fang, copper-plated steel and pearls. The talk is free and open to the public, with Q&A participation limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending in person; it is also held on Zoom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jeffrey-meris-55733/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/jeffrey-meris", "image": "https://noky.io/images/23ae333cab90a60442b6fc670f08c8cddc0fb720eefcd3b31b0fe6b1fac3480d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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"}, {"title": "Adebunmi Gdadebo", "start": "2026-11-10T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An artist's talk in the Talks lecture series, free and open to the public, also accessible online via Zoom. It features Adebunmi Gdadebo, an artist who earned her BFA at the School of Visual Arts and lives and works in Philadelphia. 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": "Martin Puryear: Nexus", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://high.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition of more than seventy works by the American artist Martin Puryear, spanning sculptures in wood, glass, marble and cast bronze alongside rarely shown drawings and prints. Co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, it traces Puryear's explorations of form, material and process since the 1960s, including works from his 2019 Venice Biennale presentation. The show illuminates his engagement with material culture, natural history, craft traditions and African American history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/martin-puryear-nexus-66842/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed2e3ef7bde4cd99380769f3ddff54111d5ab4b551a893e3b354eab24e958bd3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Arthur Jafa", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://art-ap.passes.jp/user/e/ack2026/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "film/documentary"], "description": "A talk titled 'In Praise of Shadows: An Aesthetics of Rendition — Arthur Jafa on Free Association', running 3pm−4:30pm. It brings together American artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa, whose work has been shown at institutions such as Fondazione Prada in Venice and the New Museum in New York, and Mitsuharu Kurokawa, President of the historic Japanese confectionery Toraya, moderated by art producer Yamashita Yukako. Taking the 'aesthetics of shadow' from Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows as a point of departure, it explores Jafa's creative trajectory and his inquiry into the multilayered history of Black culture through moving images, music and other forms of expression. The conversation also delves into the philosophy of light and shadow in Japanese culture and Jafa's editing techniques that collage images beyond their original contexts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/arthur-jafa-66504/", "official_url": "https://a-c-k.jp/en/talks/arthur-jafa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aa2b757568d248dd42e6a5be865a521f362b6556cd0bb625cc4dcb18e9415bd0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Charles Ray", "start": "2026-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://visit.glenstone.org/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "This is an exhibition of sculptures by the American artist Charles Ray, shown under the title \"Charles Ray\". The presentation is the sixth in a rotating series of installations and highlights Ray's mastery of material and technique alongside his exploration of form and space. On view are works such as \"Tractor\", 2005, cast and reassembled from hundreds of individual tractor parts in aluminum, \"Jeff\", 2021, an oversize seated man lost in thought, and \"Clothes pile\", 2020, a detailed depiction of the artist's discarded clothing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/charles-ray-66843/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d281b6283596e89b4975dbd29a2bfa0ee6278bcd36507e35943e773b7d65247-2000.webp"}, {"title": "New Social Environment: SR Lejeune & Joshua Chee Sanford", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An online conversation in The Brooklyn Rail's talk series, held via Zoom. Artist SR Lejeune speaks with Rail contributor Joshua Chee Sanford, a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. The talk accompanies Lejeune's exhibition \"Hold me up,\" on view at HESSE FLATOW through December 5, 2026. Registration is through a link.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-social-environment-sr-lejeune-joshua-chee-sanford-53013/", "official_url": "https://brooklynrail.org/event/2026/11/03/sr-lejeune/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/188e10ad2057bbac172ca6598c69ac118cd98a2863c8508bd7e07e1829d0ff06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Artist to Artist Convening", "start": "2026-10-30T17:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T20:30:00-04:00", "place": "Abrons Arts Center", "address": "Grand Street 466, New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The Artist to Artist Convening is a peer-led evening where interdisciplinary artists, sound and performance makers, writers, cultural workers, and activists connect and experience each other's creative practices. It is hosted by the School of Making Thinking together with Abrons Arts Center. The evening features presentations and performances from the Fall 2026 Artist to Artist courses, facilitated by Megumi Shauna Arai, Gianfranco Reyes, Kenny Shiloh Russell, and Joy Norton + Kiki Mills. Refreshments are provided and the gathering is free and open to all.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/artist-to-artist-convening-50880/", "official_url": "https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/Fall2026-artisttoartist", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d2d8347b35b42e33feaae5552a170713e017f593c25a296d8fef7e0045c76e8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In Conversation: Derek Fordjour and Katy Siegel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "The FLAG Art Foundation", "address": "West 25th Street 545, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "The artist Derek Fordjour sits down for a public conversation with Katy Siegel, a professor and curator at Stony Brook University. The talk marks the exhibition 'Spotlight: Derek Fordjour', which features a new work by the artist alongside a commissioned text by journalist and author Donovan X. Ramsey. The conversation is part of the Foundation's Spotlight series, pairing new artworks with commissioned writing to create dialogues between visual art and authors, critics, and scholars. The discussion starts half an hour after the event opens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour-and-katy-siegel-56577/", "official_url": "https://www.flagartfoundation.org/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a335b845ec19f51ba3b214373e0d6bad4099accd0385f0fcf4a70189effe431f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Liu Wei: Speculation", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-08T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Lehmann Maupin", "address": "West 24th Street 501, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition of four large-scale sculptures created by Beijing-based artist Liu Wei for The Genesis Facade Commission, shown on The Met's Fifth Avenue exterior. A key figure of a generation of Chinese artists who sought to define conceptual art on their own terms, Liu remixes fragments from the urban environment, historical sources, and bodily forms, inviting contemplation, surprise, and revelation to pierce through our perceptions of reality.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/liu-wei-speculation-53544/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b905184f31ba406f71a0c6faa8fc83bb29034ac3da2cccee4759db3c8ccb62c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Meet Me in the Forest", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.exploretock.com/cafesjian-art-trust-shoreview", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/forest", "art"], "description": "Meet Me in the Forest is an exhibition of twenty-one contemporary works spanning paintings, textiles, mixed-media, glass, ceramics, photography, and installations. It invites visitors into forests, gardens, and natural worlds artists create, exploring the layered relationships between nature and humankind, where beauty, danger, and humanity converge. The show draws on the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum's collection, new acquisitions, and loans, and features artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ebony G. Patterson, and Ana Mendieta. It is organized by the museum's curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and assistant curator of glass Linnea Seidling, with works lent in part by Gladstone Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meet-me-in-the-forest-66536/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2763fcf8351327839478296a6a7e22d803ecd970cbd9ecdca9cc7a400ef42460-2000.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": "Unearthed (a work in progress)", "start": "2026-08-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-26T00:00:00-04:00", "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/sculpture", "nature"], "description": "Unearthed (a work in progress) presents Jim Hodges' monumental bronze cast of an uprooted tree stump, a form that evokes majesty while mourning humankind's impact on the natural world. The suspended, truncated sculpture suggests the branches and life that once reached toward the sun, inviting reflection on fragility, ephemerality, and the sacredness of life. The work-in-becoming began with a 2019 residency in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral and continues to gather experiences through community participation before its roots are ultimately reunited with the ground through burial. Hodges, an internationally renowned artist who lives and works between New York City and Milan, has explored themes of fragility, temporality, love, and death since the late 1980s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/unearthed-a-work-in-progress-66540/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d77f8a80055ebb6a38ce4859f6a28ba33a54f46a7e56a5b59f2c21e88cbb2e53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ERIN SHIRREFF NEW WORK", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sikkema Jenkins & Co.", "address": "West 22nd Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "Erin Shirreff: New Work is a solo exhibition of new photographic works shown in the back galleries. The Canadian artist Erin Shirreff, born in 1975 and living in Montréal, explores how the experience of a material object is lost or gained when it becomes an image. The show brings together collaged archival pigment prints titled Ctlg, built from layered photographs of her earlier sculptures to form imagined, gravity-defying forms, alongside brown-, purple-, pink- and blue-toned cyanotype photograms that create a kind of two-dimensional sculpture on paper. These works both rework and inspire her sculptural practice, including new Corten steel sculptures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/erin-shirreff-new-work-55889/", "official_url": "https://www.smjny.com/ex20261030erinshirreff", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1fa57d96ab91f7f458418a1bf084c16f2d13c6dce211a5df7c478110c30c40c9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Meeson Pae: Seed Memory", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Anat Egbi", "address": "Broadway 372, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Seed Memory\" is an exhibition of new oil paintings and sculptures by Meeson Pae, on view at 372 Broadway, with an opening reception from 6-8 pm. The Korean American artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, paints invented organisms that suggest flowers, fungi, and seedpods in dark landscapes recalling nineteenth-century Romantic and Symbolist painting. Works were inspired partly by her visits to Jeju, South Korea, where her family traces its origins, and sculptures in ceramic, cast metal, and plaster sit on lily-pad-shaped steel platforms like miniature islands. This is Pae's second solo exhibition at the gallery and her first presentation in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meeson-pae-seed-memory-51009/", "official_url": "https://anatebgi.com/exhibitions/meeson-pae-seed-memory/", "image": ""}]}