{"title": "MOCA TALKS with Hilda Shen", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "MOCA TALKS with Hilda Shen is an in-person evening conversation at the Museum of Chinese in America, open to the general public. The museum welcomes Brooklyn artist Hilda Shen for a talk about Their Landscapes, the inaugural exhibition of MOCA's Solo Artist Projects (SAP), an initiative presenting one-person exhibitions of new work. Shen's practice involves an inquisitive scrutiny of nature and an instinct for deconstruction, with forms that can appear both ancient and futuristic, naturally occurring and handmade, suggesting processes of construction and decay. She will reflect on the ideas, influences, and creative processes behind her ceramic sculptures and prints, considering how we observe, interpret, and imagine our surroundings, across post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-talks-with-hilda-shen-81371/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-talks-hilda-shen-their-landscapes/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c13f0bd567af78d6970d3e19f7ba4b305cfbe372372504d4976597e5305c904-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Hilda Shen: Their Landscapes", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/ceramics"], "description": "\"Hilda Shen: Their Landscapes\" is an exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist's recent ceramic sculptures and prints, shown in the museum's Cheng Gallery. It inaugurates Solo Artist Projects (SAP), a MOCA initiative presenting one-person exhibitions of new work by artists of Chinese descent living and working in New York City. Shen's practice is marked by an inquisitive scrutiny of nature and an instinct for deconstruction, with forms that can appear both ancient and futuristic, naturally occurring and handmade, undergoing construction and decay. Her details and motifs open up conversations cutting across post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hilda-shen-their-landscapes-54046/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aed91fbf6df010c700d9d8fe8be0220be86865d046df4f0468de728928cc5d61-2000.webp"}, {"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, "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": "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, "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": "Maya Lin on Art, Nature, and Memory", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "$20 Members, $30 Nonmembers. Students and Seniors: Use coupon SENSTU at check out.", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "art"], "description": "A special evening at Asia Society's New York headquarters featuring artist and architectural designer Maya Lin. Part of the institution's 70th-anniversary milestone series, the discussion explores how her creative practice engages with memory, landscape, and the natural environment. Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a 21-year-old undergraduate, works across art, architecture, and memorials, examining our history, culture, and relationship with the natural world. The conversation considers how art, design, and environmental thinking foster reflection and connection across cultures and generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/maya-lin-on-art-nature-and-memory-81043/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/maya-lin-art-nature-and-memory", "image": ""}, {"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, "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": "Shuling Guo: Temple II", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hollis Taggart Downtown", "address": "109 Norfolk St, New York, NY 10002", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "Temple II is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Shuling Guo, with an opening reception on the evening of October 15. The Philadelphia-based artist brings together the female body, botanical forms, and devotional imagery in work shaped by motherhood, memory, and loss. Created after the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother, the paintings return to the temple imagery and folk traditions of her childhood in Chaoshan, China, and the show debuts her first mural, conceived as part of the gallery's transformation into a sacred space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shuling-guo-temple-ii-53037/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab84b066ff08b5ea0584f7d20121e2425e1e4fa4c50bbc96d4cced47d4ecc7d8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Public Art Fund Talks: Camille Henrot", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/animals/dogs", "art/sculpture"], "description": "An artist talk in the Public Art Fund Talks series, held at The Cooper Union's Frederick P. Rose Auditorium and offered free of charge. Artist Camille Henrot will discuss her exhibition Dogs, her first solo public exhibition in New York City, currently on view at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, which brings together new dog sculptures exploring domestication, care, attachment, and social codes. She will also speak about her wide-ranging practice across sculpture, painting, drawing, film, and installation, and her interest in the systems that structure how different species live together. Registration is required and doors close at 6:45pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/public-art-fund-talks-camille-henrot-113166/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/public-art-fund-talks-camille-henrot", "image": "https://noky.io/images/78e8e36afc0c31d007d72d4ba58c1656dd182ae3f735eb4ef41cf940dfdd7ad2-1200.webp"}, {"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, "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": "MOCA TALKS – Inside the Hiring Process: Insights for Your Next Career Move", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["community/careers"], "description": "A talk titled \"MOCA TALKS – Inside the Hiring Process: Insights for Your Next Career Move\" takes place at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York City. The museum hosts this conversation for professionals in the early and middle stages of their careers who are job hunting or considering a change. HR executives Diana Lee and Paolo Palma join James Cheng, vice chairman of Asian American Dream, for an inside look at the hiring process, moderated by Alice Tang, founder of Empathy & Art. The panel covers preparing for interviews, avoiding common mistakes, career decisions, and how AI is reshaping hiring and the workplace.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-talks-inside-the-hiring-process-insights-for-your-next-54047/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-talks-inside-the-hiring-process/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ce686bbd02888159a9b8a55bb550251d6901aaf988cdac968168396d1d97312-1200.webp"}, {"title": "MOCACREATE: Writing From the Heart with Teaching Artist Yu Rong", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "Free with admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/calligraphy"], "description": "MOCACREATE: Writing From the Heart with Teaching Artist Yu Rong is a casual drop-in workshop on Chinese characters and calligraphy at the Museum of Chinese in America. Teaching artist Yu Rong, a New York–based multidisciplinary artist and educator who bridges Eastern and Western artistic traditions, guides participants. With over 4,000 years of history, Chinese characters have a lot to share, and Ed Young's book Voices of the Heart, on display in the special exhibit, explores a few. Families with children ages 6-14 can practice their own heart-writing and maybe learn a new favorite word.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mocacreate-writing-from-the-heart-with-teaching-artist-yu-ro-81368/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/writingfromtheheart2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a41f3fc9274ab61c82332f67913008f071fe53234c3cceb5208c3f402e3abec-1200.webp"}]}