{"title": "Message from the Mud", "start": "2026-05-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00-05:00", "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/installation"], "description": "Anicka Yi: Message from the Mud is an exhibition running from May 17 to November 9, 2026, presenting the artist's first large-scale outdoor installation. Anicka Yi, an American artist born in South Korea in 1971, arranges the work like an archaeological dig, inviting viewers to engage with deep geological time and evolutionary history through what she calls \"prehistoric biofiction.\" Rising from a shallow pool at the center of the excavated site are acrylic columns filled with soil-and-water cultures, made using a technique invented by ecologist Sergei Winogradsky, in which algae, cyanobacteria, and microbial colonies emerge in colorful layers visible through the clear surfaces. The installation is organized by Nora Lawrence and Adela Goldsmith.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/message-from-the-mud-52826/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e4a1d18d63269ae91b13f59f6130d5e625a4e59a85948f82b3787dd9d1dd1df-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-05-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Yining Fei: Feral Sediment", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sculpture Center", "address": "Purves Street 44-19, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.sculpture-center.org/shop/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Yining Fei: Feral Sediment is the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, on view at SculptureCenter in Long Island City. Yining Fei, who was born in Harbin, China, and works across sculpture, moving image, and installation, centers the show on the milu (Père David's deer), a species that lived in semi-captivity in China, went locally extinct there in the early 20th century, and survived only through a small number taken to European zoos. Prompted by the question of whether a drive towards the unruly exists after centuries of captivity, the exhibition reimagines a deer's body and invents an interiority shaped by the species' histories of domestication. Ceramic sculptures in the form of deer viscera with a biomimetic glaze, found fabric, and light trace feral relations negotiating care and release, containment and transgression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/yining-fei-feral-sediment-55743/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af327540860204934bc2ff7c12cd2587e66364e60e42383a4e6cf64261373d76-2000.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": ""}, {"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"}, {"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": "HEIDI LAU OUROBOROS", "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/ceramics", "history/mythology"], "description": "The exhibition \"HEIDI LAU OUROBOROS\" at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presents an installation of ceramic sculptural work, with a public opening attended by the artist. It is by Heidi Lau, an artist born in 1987 who grew up in Macau and lives and works in New York. The show takes its title from the ancient totem of a snake or dragon swallowing its own tail, a symbol of the cyclical nature of life, death and rebirth. Through hand-built, textured ceramics that draw on the Shanhaijing text and its fantastical creatures, Lau creates ritual objects, funerary monuments, fossilized creatures and miniature universes that blur the mythical and the earthly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/heidi-lau-ouroboros-55888/", "official_url": "https://www.smjny.com/ex20261030heidilau", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a34d4c1f6404809c1240254f84222f8e2975def098e5187d57aa35dc98f3ccc4-2000.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": "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"}, {"title": "Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Aspen)", "start": "2026-05-20T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-31T00:00:00-04:00", "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/contemporary-sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition of sculpture by Kerstin Brätsch, presented as a site-specific rooftop commission centered on a new series of four mosaic benches. The benches, built from glass, concrete, marble and stones, continue her Fossil Psychics works in which painterly gestures become fossilized fragments like remnants of geological phenomena or ancient creatures. Visitors may sit on the benches, which accommodate living plants within them, forming a landscape of native flowers and shrubs that changes with the seasons, framed by a vinyl mural from her MƎTA series of enlarged oil paintings. Curated by Stella Bottai, Daniel Merritt, and Nicola Lees.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fossil-psychic-stone-mimicry-aspen-66552/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e73a2d6d4a92871a4a25bf81de55952bc737a6a6e7070ef83920b0ef7676229-1200.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": "Kim Yun Shin: In the Continuum", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-24T00:00:00-05:00", "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": "Lehmann Maupin presents the exhibition \"In the Continuum\" by pioneering Korean artist Kim Yun Shin. Her first solo show with the gallery in Seoul since returning to Korea after four decades abroad, it brings together historical and new works on two floors. Paintings, wood sculptures and 'painting-sculptures' explore the enduring relationship between material, physical gesture and nature, with her return to Korea opening a new chapter shaped by encounters with the country's landscapes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kim-yun-shin-in-the-continuum-66719/", "official_url": "https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/kim-yun-shin-in-the-continuum", "image": "https://noky.io/images/491edc4a59cfeee9b9d21d0a88c2193e5a6a71e6b50c7c3f94681122d6df2db0-2000.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": "Dyani White Hawk", "start": "2026-06-13T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-18T00:00:00-04:00", "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/indigenous-art"], "description": "Dyani White Hawk takes part in the group exhibition Hold to Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection. The show brings together 65 works by 38 artists, including two significant new commissions, and is described as a landmark exhibition of contemporary Indigenous North American art on a scale never seen before in the UK. It features sculpture, film, photography, painting, ceramics and fibre art and is the first group exhibition staged in the Underground Gallery in its twenty-year history. It is on view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, United Kingdom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dyani-white-hawk-66126/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/16f6a87f756674966d4520db712fd7e8bdd54cd59d3e1b74e1de69b550e94e0a-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": "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": "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"}]}