{"title": "LaJuné McMillian: Child/ren of the Bloom", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/environment/oceans", "art/installation"], "description": "\"Child/ren of the Bloom\" is an interactive, multidisciplinary installation at Pioneer Works that explores the threshold between land and sea and the body's return to its origins. It was created by artist LaJuné McMillian as the culmination of a residency developed with OceanX Education in partnership with Pioneer Works, transforming her research on phytoplankton, algal blooms, and bioluminescence into a spiritual, embodied encounter with oceanic systems. The exhibition follows Child, a recurring avatar in the artist's work, through a first threshold crossing in which dissolving into oceanic life becomes a metaphor for an early encounter with the spirit world. Visitors can move their hands before a sensor-driven, floor-to-ceiling video installation that shifts between satellite views of algal blooms and close-ups of individual phytoplankton, alongside holographic displays, beaded embroidery, prayers and voiceovers, and a virtual oracle that invites conversation with Child.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lajune-mcmillian-children-of-the-bloom-71724/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1cb22f18e0cbdf3bc5502af9a5af0f783efcccfb46d793b7c38c6f5a6e34f96-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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://secure.fristartmuseum.org/", "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": "Cavernous Shoal", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-16T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Pay what you can with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["music/electronic/club", "art/installation"], "description": "Cavernous Shoal is a season-long residency installation in the lobby and community space OPEN ROOM, opening with a live performance by Ibrahima Mbaye. Artist Jesús Hilario-Reyes, who works across sonic performance, land installation, and expanded cinema, fills the space with a bespoke sound system and a sculpture of mangrove roots. Inspired by DJ culture and shorelines between land and sea, it imagines the dancefloor in Black diasporic club culture as a place of perpetual transformation, where belonging emerges through movement rather than permanence. During the residency the artist hosts open decks, performances, conversations, workshops, screenings, and experimental sound activations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cavernous-shoal-54717/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cd3a4ed73cb78677abe4bf877b0570dc1da2322967f4a21ed15d0dab0c33d22-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean", "start": "2026-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art", "science/ai"], "description": "The Thinking Ocean is a digital artwork at the Whitney Museum of American Art that simulates a dynamic body of water, shifting between the physics of fluids and the logic of code. It is created by Memo Akten and Katie Hofstadter, interdisciplinary artists and researchers who explore how emerging technologies such as AI interact with embodied, emotional, and ecological human experience. Viewers navigate an underwater scene of drifting particles and bubbles that morphs into patterns recalling cells, circuitry, and code, accompanied by a voice reciting a poem generated in real time. The work highlights our bias toward granting agency to machines while overlooking the complex computations unfolding in natural systems.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memo-akten-katie-hofstadter-the-thinking-ocean-67477/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a4662c4429b89333467bde89fd4c969a42992098699f042c3dafd9492162b9c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hortensia Mi Kafchin: Through Different Eyes", "start": "2026-02-20T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art"], "description": "An art installation on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in SoHo, New York City. Painter Hortensia Mi Kafchin presents 'Through Different Eyes' (2026), a three-channel synchronized video filling the museum's facade, showing forms resembling eyes—human, feline, robot, cyborg—that morph into blood cells, DNA strands, and planets. Curated by Stamatina Gregory and Chloe Ming, the work evokes the 'third eye' of spiritual traditions and contemplates perception as a default state, expanding human culture and biology into a cosmological, transhuman network.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hortensia-mi-kafchin-through-different-eyes-53561/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9878818124a2e2efd18ad4ca5a355fe3c0612d32dc3c63473b06bdaa64c04542-2000.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": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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/ca1b291a88beb0e39c480b065c8d0a3e612f5bd0a2181948ac02915d3e33562f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tuomas A. Laitinen: Siphon", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "nature/animals"], "description": "Siphon is a multimedia exhibition built around an immersive multichannel video of octopuses, whose shifting camouflage patterns, skin textures, and colors merge into a single undulating visual landscape meant to be felt in the body. It was created by Helsinki-based artist Tuomas A. Laitinen, drawing on more than a decade of research into octopus intelligence, sleep, and consciousness, developed in collaboration with neuroscientist Sam Reiter of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and produced with support by PALO. Water-filled tanks hold blown-glass sculptures arranged by Japanese ikebana master Kosen Ohtsubo, while an eight-channel spatial audio work, 8Eternal, with vocals by Kenyan composer Nyokabi Kariuki, spreads through the Main Hall as beams of sound from ultrasonic speakers. Curated by Gabriel Florenz and commissioned by Pioneer Works, the exhibition invites reflection on what non-human forms of intelligence reveal about perception, awareness, and our relationship to the natural world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tuomas-a-laitinen-siphon-54876/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6d928e99e26acbab1a0373c4aaa63801ce60a66200ef8c5d6302f8a8c1c7937-2000.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": "We Can’t Dream Alone", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "nature/climate"], "description": "\"We Can't Dream Alone\" is an outdoor exhibit of four large-scale reproductions of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Madjeen Isaac, installed along the Washington Avenue perimeter of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is presented by the Climate Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Combining experiences from her homeland of Haiti and her upbringing in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Isaac explores how collective care, memory, and ecological knowledge are crucial to building a more just future. Her lush urban environments invite viewers to consider how relationships to place and community make us more resilient to personal adversities, social injustice, and climate change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/we-cant-dream-alone-51528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70d11ab6a4a07e86689b012238344a8772a6837ca0ae172be5094258be60eeb7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "There's no me without you", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/disability"], "description": "There's no me without you is an interactive exhibition by artist Finnegan Shannon, turning a 12-foot mechanized conveyor belt into a vehicle that brings artworks to visitors seated on surrounding furniture, who can engage through touch, sight, and sound. Shannon reimagines the belt from a longtime fantasy of an exhibition space that meets their access needs, designed as a space for rest and play, with the title drawing on interdependence in disability culture. Over its three-month run, the installation hosts three successive solo presentations of new works by Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Ariana Martinez, and Alex Dolores Salerno, figures of New York City's disability art scene. On September 12, it features Ariana Martinez's presentation of a soundscape with objects forming a \"tactile score,\" exploring touch as a shared language between ecologically entangled entities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/theres-no-me-without-you-54875/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5630d881ee482e7a89dbb3470223e4e587ec78feeeaebbac8d492b4447c22b5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ARTECHOUSE: Twilight Zone - Hidden Wonders of The Ocean", "start": "2026-09-19T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Chelsea Market", "address": "9th Avenue 75, 10011", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.artechouse.com/program/twilight-zone-nyc/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art", "nature/environment/oceans"], "description": "Twilight Zone: Hidden Wonders of the Ocean is an immersive exhibition at Chelsea Market that takes visitors into the bioluminescent realm of the ocean twilight zone. It was created by ARTECHOUSE Studio in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Through stunning visuals and an original score, it blends scientific discovery with digital art, showing the nightly migration of deep-sea animals and how twilight zone creatures are linked to the health of our planet. The exhibition aims to inspire protection of our planet's most mysterious realm for generations to come.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/artechouse-twilight-zone-hidden-wonders-of-the-ocean-51812/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f17cc88d9c5b75fe49fec0c88e1bd5cab2c48ff2b7b03362db7e3b5a57687ffd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE", "start": "2026-04-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "film/experimental"], "description": "Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE is an exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art built around a new four-channel digital film installation with movable screens and an interactive speaker system. It was created by artist Shu Lea Cheang with eight intergenerational performers in Tucson, Arizona, whose own experiences and dreams of trans and gender nonconforming life in today's United States shaped the collaboratively scripted film. The work moves between physical and virtual space, honoring Cheang's late collaborator, musician Aérea Negrot, whose 2011 track \"It's Lover, Love\" is triggered as visitors shift the screens. Curated by Stamatina Gregory, the installation invites viewers to navigate agency, survival, and intimacy in a time of escalating political precarity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shu-lea-cheang-lover-love-53560/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/320422965381a7872e5895e88d85060ad4c8d0d023182624c361a38b993574ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Stand4 Gallery and Community Center", "address": "78th Street 414, 11209 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/parenting"], "description": "An exhibition titled 'And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes' running from October 24 to December 5, 2026. It is an exhibition by Mother Creatrix Collective, inspired by Sylvia Plath's poem Tulips. The featured artists explore transformation, grief, and empathy in motherhood, showing the link between their identities and their children's, with approaches from including their children in their work to community-based art and activism as caregiving as social practice. The show also includes artistic collaborations inspired by childbirth and parenting experiences.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/and-i-am-aware-of-my-heart-it-opens-and-closes-79603/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Like everything alive that we try to hold forever", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pratt Manhattan Gallery", "address": "144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art"], "description": "\"Like everything alive that we try to hold forever\" is an art exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, an exhibition space on 14th Street in New York City. Curated by Elizabeth Diggon, Naomi Potter, and Shauna Thompson, it brings together seven artists: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Diane Borsato, Stephanie Dinkins, Bridget Moser, Sondra Perry, and Miya Turnbull. The works explore how human bodies exist in relation to non-human objects and how the collection, consumption, and contextualization of these objects shape our understanding of self and others. Organized by Esker Foundation and toured by Independent Curators International, the show uses objects and avatars to examine the identities and biases embedded in science, technology, and museum collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/like-everything-alive-that-we-try-to-hold-forever-54997/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb835cb6ffe02570170039fe74401004b5970d28503aee9cbd9af624de5a7826-2000.webp"}]}