{"title": "Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00-04:00", "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/media-art/video-art", "society/black-culture"], "description": "\"Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death\" is an acclaimed seven-and-a-half-minute video work shown as an exhibition. It was made by visual artist, cinematographer, and film director Arthur Jafa, an American born in 1960. The video condenses the history and lived experience of Black life in the United States into a rapid, emotionally charged montage set to Kanye West's gospel-inflected track \"Ultralight Beam.\" Combining found footage from films, news broadcasts, viral videos, and historical archives with Jafa's own material, it juxtaposes joy, creativity, and Black cultural achievement with documentation of violence and oppression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-66508/", "official_url": "https://chrysler.org/exhibition/arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/adc8aac1e039ca1193b1dfdfc35799dec0ac7f0e1ca80dc526b96dcacc040c7f-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "AURA", "start": "2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "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/art-collection"], "description": "AURA is an exhibition bringing together works from a private collection, shown at Gladstone Gallery on West 21st Street in New York. Drawn entirely from the AMA Collection, it unfolds through shifting tensions between material and immaterial, between what is seen and what is sensed. It features works by artists including Arthur Jafa, Charles Ray, Christopher Wool, Richard Serra, Laura Owens, and Jenny Saville, alongside a work by Ed Ruscha conceived for AMA Venezia. 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The curation underscores the breadth of Emory’s references, and that his fashion output was always designed to be in conversation with the culture at large.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tremaine-emory-denim-tears-from-the-pool-of-black-genius-66530/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985", "start": "2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://10432.blackbaudhosting.com/10432/tickets?tab=3&txobjid=ce23ab70-3780-425c-af6b-69b587dc0111", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/black-history"], "description": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 is an exhibition on the role photography played in shaping a distinctly Black artistic and cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, it is curated by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis, and overseen at the Mississippi Museum of Art by Kaegan Sparks. Through works by over 100 artists, it shows the medium's versatility as art, design, organizing tool, and community builder. From Kwame Brathwaite's fashion photography to Gordon Parks's photojournalism, it reveals how studio and street photographers, designers, activists, and community organizers used photography to document, imagine, and transform Black life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photography-and-the-black-arts-movement-19551985-66542/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fabd552951a38ecc401d93b1e2a1434a68e1aee6a97f5da1d1ea57e9a413ab9c-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": "I Said What I Said: Steve Locke in Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-reid-pharr-tickets-2003828790855?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "A gallery conversation in Chelsea between artist Steve Locke and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr, moderated by curator Evan Garza. It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. The discussion explores Locke's interdisciplinary practice and his engagement with portraiture, desire, race, and memory, examining the histories of racial violence, anti-Blackness, and the Western art historical canon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-r-50911/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandergray.com/news/3231-i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e9d2d26d198261cf3bfd188ddce7c05c7d94958da02efae161e071d08cdd6d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tony Cokes: Texts, Tracks, Talks (1992 – 2026)", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Greene Naftali Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art"], "description": "A survey exhibition of video works spanning 1992 to 2026 by the artist Tony Cokes, presented at the Greene Naftali Gallery. Curated by Amber Esseiva, it gathers past and newly commissioned pieces that explore artistic production, intent, and the formation of personal identity. Since the 1980s, Cokes has sampled and remixed fragments of the media landscape, layering found text over vibrant colors and dissonant soundtracks to surface latent ideologies of popular culture and confront structural racism, power, and visibility. Visitors should note the exhibition features flashing lights, loud repetitive sounds, and strobe effects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tony-cokes-texts-tracks-talks-1992-2026-66568/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f64052549f2e5f98368a7f82aec2b7e0154128c1b098957b8ec76e1ce7229ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: Another View Book Launch and Signing Featuring Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and Awol Erizku (Phaidon)", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrt3SWkpxscQMAkM0VN7NduG5Tqq7Ncs-1CsKWQ5qcw33_2g/viewform?usp=publish-editor", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature"], "description": "A panel and book launch with signing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging, held in Riese Lounge on the 1st floor and with limited seating. Editor Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and photographer Awol Erizku present \"Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists\" (Phaidon). The book explores the studios, living spaces, and creative processes of twenty notable Black artists through 150 never-before-published photographs by Erizku, with profiles based on interviews by Brielmaier and an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A government-issued photo ID is required for entry, and guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-another-view-book-launch-and-signing-featuring-53240/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/events/dpi-presents--dpi-professor-isolde-s-book-signing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0cc6fc700a494b95fd85d0c9b2f56c6dd16ddf448a0d0f3bca12c35f284dd46-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long is a transdisciplinary poetry series honoring the legacy of Brooklyn icon June Jordan. It is curated by Hanif Abdurraqib, a BAM Curator and MacArthur \"Genius,\" now in its third year, and this year spotlights powerful voices from across the African Diaspora. The evening on offer pairs versatile composers and instrumentalists Meshell Ndegeocello and Samora Pinderhughes, who share a night of words and music under the series' banner. The program also includes Poetry Overnight at BAM, Southern Oracles by the Black Air Poets, Be Holding based on a Ross Gay poem, and Stones in the Water with Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, Anis Mojgani, and Abdurraqib.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-guess-it-was-my-destiny-to-live-so-long-51198/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca322bacd44652032ba8e3d49e9c02203731c1f147933a90f0e38b4f8fdc7558-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-27T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Center for Architecture", "address": "LaGuardia Place 546", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/racism"], "description": "Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design is an exhibition by and about the Dark Matter U network, the first BIPOC-led transdisciplinary network in the built environment. It was initiated after the 2020 movement for Black Lives to enact systemic change across the design fields, changing how we gather, teach, and produce design. The show is curated in three parts: recording past DMU work, documenting current efforts, and a provocation for the future. It is curated and produced by a Dark Matter U network team, co-led by Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Jerome Haferd, and Sophie Weston Chien.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dark-matter-u-justice-pedagogy-design-51771/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af5462535782d1e55ca5d0c599e99fe6604d19b83bf4bdb94d66665abb2c77bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Omari Douglin", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "29 Lafayette Ave", "address": "29 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art"], "description": "A public mural titled 'Junction' by the visual artist Omari Douglin, on view to the public. Commissioned as part of BAM's Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative, it was inspired by the Hamm Archives, a collection chronicling the institution's history and programming. The work layers archival images from BAM's Next Wave Journals, magazines, posters and advertisements from the 1980s and 1990s, reimagined in Douglin's painting style, with jazz musician Miles Davis at its center drawn from a 1994 GAP advertisement. Its yellow background echoes Keith Haring's 1984 poster for Secret Pastures, reflecting how one artistic discipline informs another.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/omari-douglin-51205/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/483cddb2282d252cd98e2bd1d26badd1b1b3b611b363beae28f3aef9509f5d51-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Donald Moffett", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/us"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational writings, Common Sense and The American Crisis, with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Donald Moffett, and Maynard Monrow. Donald Moffett contributes a newly commissioned text-based work using graphic design strategies to deliver the message that power lies with us. As 250 years ago, the country navigates deep division, and the exhibition presents contemporary art as offering hope, inspiration, and momentum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/donald-moffett-50912/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82926d8d53a2a2e39799b64bf9dd1628a0da5444c084f8eec898db4e8c12a086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "AURA", "start": "2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/art-collection"], "description": "AURA is an exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery drawn entirely from the AMA Collection, bringing together works by artists including Ed Ruscha, Arthur Jafa, Charles Ray, Christopher Wool, Richard Serra, Laura Owens, and Jenny Saville. It places works and presences in relation, where art emerges as intensity, perception, and shared experience. A significant work by Ed Ruscha, conceived for AMA Venezia, bridges Venice, U.S.A. and Venezia, Italy. Visitors are invited to slow down and look closely, letting vision become a physical, emotional, and mental experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aura-66852/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Here, Already", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/here-already-tickets-2003581975624?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/queer"], "description": "\"Here, Already\" is a screening of three films by Salad Hilowle, Ahmed Umar, and Samira Elagoz with Z Walsh, guest-curated by Power Ekroth and followed by a discussion between Ekroth, Elagoz, and Walsh. The films explore love in different forms, from desire hidden in plain sight to intimacy across continents, with music playing an important role in each. Hilowle's \"Passion of Remembrance\" uses 1990s Swedish pop, television, and archival footage to reveal how Black artists were celebrated for their contributions to popular culture while treated as outsiders due to xenophobia. Umar's \"Truth Bears No Scandal\" brings hidden queer love stories within well-known Sudanese songs to the fore, while Elagoz and Walsh's \"You can't get what you want but you can get me\" documents their own love story across continents through a year of photographs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/here-already-52439/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783397/here-already/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8494b80775001b38602e02f60e9cb7c7c56d4c3128fcc35cedd3d2fc5d4a110-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jazsalyn: Warpmode, This is not a game!", "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"], "description": "Jazsalyn: Warpmode, This is not a game! is a digital artwork by the Whitney Museum of American Art's artport portal for Internet and new media art. It expands Warpmode, a worldbuilding toolkit of forty prompt-based player cards that the artist created with the curatorial project Black Beyond and published through Metalabel in 2024 to contemplate multidimensional layers of Blackness through four Black Metatheories—Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse. The digital version frames this toolkit as Ancestral Intelligence, the earliest knowledge systems and traditions passed down through generations in Indigenous and diasporic communities, proposing an alternative form of AI rooted in human experience. Visitors' anonymous responses become part of the artwork.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jazsalyn-warpmode-this-is-not-a-game-67475/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3f1db1953434f1964cecb48f4dfeecaaa686133e1b4afe0892a9bee1676e9f3b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Love Matters Everywhere by Brendan Murphy", "start": "2026-06-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A monumental public art installation bringing a sculpture called the Love Matters bear into public space at Hudson Yards. It is the work of Brendan Murphy and opens his project Love Matters Everywhere, which travels city by city. Each installation is paired with a location-linked collectible release, and Murphy's inscriptions shape the surface, energy, and presence of the sculpture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/love-matters-everywhere-by-brendan-murphy-71311/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/adbe6490bd4b8c22e73781accd40684e1ef8e7e785be8fa26ff49c04d7229d64-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mary Lovelace O'Neal | Requiem", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Marianne Boesky Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 509, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-expressionism"], "description": "Requiem is an exhibition of paintings, prints, and drawings by Mary Lovelace O'Neal from the 1980s and 1990s, presented at Boesky Gallery. It is the first posthumous exhibition devoted to the artist, who was born in 1942 in Jackson, Mississippi, and died in May 2026 in Mérida, Mexico, at the age of 84. The show, titled after Requiem for a Daffodil (1997), traces a transformative period in which her distinct visual language coalesced, weaving childhood memories, international travels, and imagined characters—panthers, mermaids, daisies—into vivid, painterly surfaces that move between abstraction and figuration. It celebrates her grand mythology, built during a 65-year career marked by her keen sensitivity to color and her tension between the expressionist and the minimalist.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mary-lovelace-oneal-requiem-53790/", "official_url": "https://marianneboeskygallery.com/exhibitions/350-mary-lovelace-o-neal-requiem/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/242af54781804478216207d17e5f1c7e3654c87751cefecc76eb0b4f318e3d13-1200.webp"}]}