{"title": "Melvin Edwards", "start": "2026-08-06T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "El Museo Del Barrio", "address": "5th Avenue 1230, 10029 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Octopus & Others: Acts of Collaboration & Poetics is a group exhibition at El Museo del Barrio centered on Papo Colo's 1982 participatory sculpture Octopus: An Act of Sculpture, recently gifted panels of which are shown for the first time in over four decades. Artist Melvin Edwards is among the exhibiting artists; the project Colo staged brought together artists and poets from New York's uptown and downtown scenes, including Nicholasa Mohr, Pedro Pietri, Vito Acconci, Tehching Hsieh, and Juan Sánchez. The exhibition explores collaboration between artists and poets, artworks that embrace and subvert the book form, and responses to social, political, and environmental concerns through collection works, archival materials, and select loans.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/melvin-edwards-50914/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07ddbcbbc1df9d5a8f67e91706748804769e8cde182f4ea9ddffe03d3f65a832-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-08-06T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "El Museo Del Barrio", "address": "5th Avenue 1230, 10029 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Charles Bernstein at the Oculus", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "http://www.printedmatter.org/services/submit-your-book", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "art"], "description": "An evening of reading and conversation at Printed Matter, Inc. Charles Bernstein and Richard Tuttle present their collaboration 'Charles Bernstein at the Oculus', a book published by Cuneiform Press. 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It was formed by artists Luis Camnitzer, José Guillermo Castillo, and Liliana Porter in New York in 1964 and was active until its final project for the Information exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970. Bringing together works on paper, mail art, participatory pieces, installations, and archival materials, it traces the group's radical expansion of printmaking and its contributions to conceptual art between New York and Latin America. The exhibition is curated by Olivia Casa and was developed in collaboration with Luis Camnitzer and Liliana Porter.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/luis-camnitzer-50910/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88260afcb854de0ce18e1d69d2ff95d923dd72d8945516c111dfbec144a0bfb6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Harmony Hammond", "start": "2026-05-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "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"], "description": "Shelter from the Storm: An Artist's Eye with Stan Allen and Polly Apfelbaum is a group exhibition at the National Academy of Design, including work by Harmony Hammond. 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Jones and Melvin Edwards", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Jennie C. Jones and Melvin Edwards are included in the group exhibition Hard Art, on view at MoMA PS1 in Queens from November 5, 2026. Hard Art is a major exhibition examining the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. It features over forty artists, juxtaposing historical painters who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices in sculpture, video, sound, and painting, and traces the legacy of three generations of artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jennie-c-jones-and-melvin-edwards-50913/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/744-hard-art", "image": "https://noky.io/images/77f3244a83504e0c62a19a8807e82f03e27a7bdac24d4268b98bf40f8e014f56-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Bethany Collins", "start": "2026-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-14T00:00:00-05:00", "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", "society/politics"], "description": "Bethany Collins takes part in the group exhibition \"We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment\" at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The exhibition fills the museum's main galleries and is organized around five topics: civics, history, family and kinship, map-making, and care for the environment. Its title quotes \"Bless this Land,\" a 2019 poem by former US poet laureate and Indigenous activist Joy Harjo, an important influence on the show. Guided by American democratic ideals of participation and experimentation, it invites visitors to consider their own role in conversations about the past and future of the United States, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bethany-collins-66128/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba7f3513fe9acec48cf83a6c0a0478436c1e83edf85250da286ffd6ceeab0424-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Elizabeth Murray", "start": "2026-10-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-27T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "An exhibition of works on paper by Elizabeth Murray, drawings that served as studies for the backdrop she made for the dance work PRESENT TENSE. The show grew out of a collaboration between Catskill Art Space, the Elizabeth Murray Estate, the Trisha Brown Dance Company and Works & Process, celebrating the partnership between Murray and choreographer Trisha Brown. Murray, an influential American artist known for her exuberant paintings and drawings, shaped animated forms and unusual shapes that drew on abstraction, cartooning and everyday experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/elizabeth-murray-52820/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aae600bddc77d0276862668430bf80f0d468b6f4f7f1403397dbe3a098c2d39b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spooktacular MAD Halloween Party!", "start": "2026-10-30T15:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of Arts and Design", "address": "Columbus Circle 2, New York", "price": "$10 general, $5 members, free for ages 12 and under (tickets do not include Museum admission)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/460/tickets?cdEventIds=621a47c2d751820835e8b51b&date=2026-10-30T15:00:00-04:00&eventId=68bf45836dfecb20fd27ab7d", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/crafts", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Spooktacular MAD Halloween Party! is a festive Halloween day at the Museum of Arts and Design with hands-on art activities, spooky creations, and family-friendly fun, and guests are encouraged to come dressed in their most creative costume. It is held by the museum and features an interactive soft sculpture installation by Mookntaka, the Brooklyn-based artist duo of Mark Zlotsky and Karyn Lao, whose cheerful inflatable sculptures encourage people of all ages to connect through play. Visitors can also pose in a Boo! photo booth and join art-making including mask making, spooky pom-poms with resident artist Karyn Lao, and pop-up Halloween cardmaking with artist Hayley Ferber.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spooktacular-mad-halloween-party-54032/", "official_url": "https://www.madmuseum.org/events/spooktacular-mad-halloween-party", "image": "https://noky.io/images/53c7b94f642a5abde671a301353b632e76ee2d9919b70d0ee36e9bb05ad16d83-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Confluence", "start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Urban Glass", "address": "Fulton Street 647, 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Confluence is an exhibition of sculpture and installations made from recycled and repurposed glass, with an opening reception from 6 to 9 PM. It was created by artists Anna Boothe and Nancy Cohen, born during a 2024 international artist's residency at WheatonArts in New Jersey. Their collaborative research covers 300 years of regional glass history, from colonial era wares to contemporary scientific apparatus, and its relationship to local waterways, area ecology, and the changing climate. Working in atypical combinations of methods and materials, they use the fluid and non-fluid duality of glass to transform hard-edged scientific glassware into forms evoking the soft-edged natural world, curated by Dr. Ferris Olin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/confluence-57324/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/441a3f9ca345d2513c6da88874a8934a95477c02e0fc1f7e0202c8a2bae078f9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Analog with All Of It: Collage", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Greene Space at WNYC/WQXR", "address": "Charlton Street 44", "price": "$30", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage"], "description": "A hands-on collage-making evening, the first in the event series Analog with All Of It. Host Alison Stewart leads the series, and Luis Martin of Collage Dream gives guidance as you craft your own piece; materials like paper, scissors, magazines, and glue are provided, or bring your own. Representatives of The Romare Bearden Foundation talk about how New York artist Romare Bearden used collage as a foundation for his work. It is a chance to get crafty, hear from makers, and connect with fellow listeners.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/analog-with-all-of-it-collage-57488/", "official_url": "https://wnyc.org/events/analog-night-with-all-of-it-collage", "image": ""}, {"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": "Matthew Lutz Kinoy The Mud Room: Itinerant Artists, Folk Spectacles, and Painted Walls", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Amant", "address": "Maujer Street 306, 11206 Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/ceramics"], "description": "The Mud Room: Itinerant Artists, Folk Spectacles, and Painted Walls is an exhibition at Amant's AZ gallery built as a theater-in-the-round, with a working ceramic workshop at its center surrounded by four large paintings serving as backdrops. It is by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, developed with collaborators Natsuko Uchino and Kazunori Hamana, and considers the gallery as a ceramic studio and the studio as a theater. The exhibition reflects on artists, artisans, potters, and muralists whose work has shaped domestic and public spaces, tracing lineages from Aaron Douglas's 1934 mural Aspects of Negro Life to murals by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish and Keith Haring's public murals. Ceramics are created throughout the run of the exhibition, and the staging is extended through artist dialogues, culinary gatherings, and theatrical performances that frame ceramics as knowledge transmitted through the body, touch, and making.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/matthew-lutz-kinoy-the-mud-room-itinerant-artists-folk-spect-50978/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c98c833cb5e29047b67c11953cb7ea590bad441d329c9fc0b9a07451e6f9e305-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Liz Deschenes in Guild & Greyshkul", "start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Miguel Abreu Gallery", "address": "Orchard Street 36, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Guild & Greyshkul is a group exhibition about the artist-run gallery of the same name, which operated in New York City from 2003 to 2009 and bridged a shared studio space and a commercial gallery. It presents works by over 70 artists, reflecting past and emerging models of creative exchange and collaboration among an intergenerational cohort. The exhibition is organized by Anya Kielar, Johannes VanDerBeek, and Sara VanDerBeek, the gallery's three founders, in cooperation with Adriana Farmiga and Yuri Masnyj, deans at The Cooper Union School of Art. A related publication and public program explore the ongoing relevance of artist-run spaces, collective practice, and alternative pedagogies as models for today's artists and institutions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/liz-deschenes-in-guild-greyshkul-53954/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bf6ac5ed6ac38ff27270009b6e5c360a01a809c8aa3c42636998386c5b8427e4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Annual Art Auction & Gala", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Flux Factory", "address": "29th Street 39-31", "price": "", "price_from": "80.52", "price_to": "80.52", "tickets_url": "https://pools.events/event/QA9F5ZKC/flux-factory/?i=HNn08TQi", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "community/fundraising", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "An evening art auction and gala with a DJ, catered open bar and a \"Halloween Hangover\" dress code, held at Flux Factory's newly renovated gallery Flux IV. The organization Flux Factory is behind it, honoring artist sTo Len and Materials for the Arts Executive Director Tara Sansone. The auction features works by Melissa Joseph, Saya Woolfalk, Mary Mattingly, Ivan Argote and Flux alumni, with online bids opening November 1. Celebrating 20 years of Flux auctions, it raises support for the Artist Residency and Exhibition programs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/annual-art-auction-gala-52663/", "official_url": "https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/2026-gala/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bd3c7e237eb962a6a01d489e5fc94a52faedcd8ce602f4ff75fca8322fee6e51-1200.webp"}, {"title": "En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Abrons Arts Center", "address": "Grand Street 466, New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy is a work spanning performance, film installation, and an exhibition that reassembles the Greek myth of Antigone. It is directed by artist Natalia Lassalle-Morillo as part of her two-year La Residencia residency with Abrons and Pública Espacio Cultural in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and organized by residency curator Natalia Viera-Salgado. Through collaboration with an ensemble of nonprofessional actors from Puerto Rico and New York City's Puerto Rican diasporic community, it examines the collective consciousness shaped by decades of environmental, economic, political, and spiritual tragedies in the archipelago. Presented as a two-part film installation with an accompanying exhibition, Part I chronicles the New York-based cast's process while Part II follows a Puerto Rico-based ensemble developing their own interpretation of Antigone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/en-parabolaconversations-on-tragedy-50881/", "official_url": "https://www.abronsartscenter.org/programs/enparabola", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bbfbcb849e0bdfab76227597846f16a1412ee5330514f195c32ae0d319f07087-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Field Notes Exhibition", "start": "2026-11-06T16:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "Free & open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/field-notes-notas-del-campo-tickets-2003837808828?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/community-art", "science/biology/ecology"], "description": "Field Notes / Notas del Campo is a summer workshop exhibition celebrating a season of creativity, exploration, and collective learning at Valé EcoLab. It is led by Valé Collective, a Latinx-led, eco-centered art and design organization, through the Field Notes public art and science program. Over spring and summer, artists and community members of all ages explored the coastal ecology of the Rockaways through hands-on art and science workshops, from natural dyes and coastal plants to soils, sound, and living environments. The exhibition brings together the community's artwork, experiments, and discoveries, with music by DJ Creepitona and refreshments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/field-notes-exhibition-52651/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/field-notes-/-notas-del-campo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c8e28b68eafb23ea2b2bc1649b35a6b94bcd81f356857c13c719c1025d8f7856-600.webp"}]}