{"title": "Noguchi Talks: Alanna Heiss and Martin Puryear – Two American Sculptors in the Venice Biennale", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free; Reservation required (space is limited)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A free public conversation at The Noguchi Museum marking the 40th anniversary of Isamu Noguchi's 1986 presentation in the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. It brings together Alanna Heiss, who commissioned Noguchi's exhibition What Is Sculpture?, and sculptor Martin Puryear, who represented the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale with Liberty/Libertà. Moderated by Hitomi Iwasaki, the discussion considers what it means to represent America on an international stage and how artists' cultural backgrounds, racial identities, and personal histories inform that question. It is presented alongside the museum's exhibitions Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale and No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75; space is limited and reservations are required by email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/noguchi-talks-alanna-heiss-and-martin-puryear-two-american-s-108000/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-18-1800-noguchi-talksalanna-heiss-and-martin-puryeartwo-american-sculptors-in-the-venice-biennale/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee96e8d41fed77dd593df824574ab9c0ca11e351a8cc32d4c2b17ca8e73cd4bc-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-21T10:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-05-09T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "'Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi’s 1986 Venice Biennale' is a single-gallery archival presentation at The Noguchi Museum, on view in Area 5 of the first floor from May 6, 2026 to May 9, 2027. Marking the fortieth anniversary of Isamu Noguchi’s U.S. Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale, it examines his exhibition 'What Is Sculpture?' through materials from the Museum’s collection and archive. The show revisits Noguchi’s practice through archival photographs, architectural sketches, a model for the monumental marble spiral slide Slide Mantra, and Akari light sculptures. It is organized to coincide with the 2026 Venice Biennale, where the Museum partners with The Japan Foundation on selected works in an audience participatory exhibition by Japanese American artist Ei Arakawa-Nash.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/light-and-stone-revisiting-noguchis-1986-venice-biennale-56808/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dfe27c4cb4ad0fe5359fd96c66655635bbcd88d931f538e06cde1deadf3a182b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Martin Puryear: Nexus", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition of more than seventy works by the American artist Martin Puryear, spanning sculptures in wood, glass, marble and cast bronze alongside rarely shown drawings and prints. Co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, it traces Puryear's explorations of form, material and process since the 1960s, including works from his 2019 Venice Biennale presentation. The show illuminates his engagement with material culture, natural history, craft traditions and African American history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/martin-puryear-nexus-66842/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed2e3ef7bde4cd99380769f3ddff54111d5ab4b551a893e3b354eab24e958bd3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gallery Kit", "start": "2026-11-06T14:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Gallery Kit is a drop-in art-making session held in the museum's galleries. Visitors of all ages and experience levels explore Isamu Noguchi's work and current exhibitions, with each session starting from a motivating question that guides a creative exploration of materials and ideas. The event is hosted by The Noguchi Museum and admission is free all day for Free First Friday; no advance registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gallery-kit-56813/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-06-1430-gallery-kit/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b6db5c02662028fc8948a82c1e9997a06064117189a2aa14a83cf1c9eeec60e7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-09-05T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75 is an exhibition at The Noguchi Museum marking the 75th anniversary of Akari, Isamu Noguchi's light sculptures. It explores the enduring significance of these works, which Noguchi began creating in 1951 after a visit to Gifu inspired him to reimagine traditional Japanese chochin lanterns using paper, bamboo, electric bulbs, and modern wire bases. Over three decades Noguchi made more than 200 models of these \"luminous sculptures,\" which he named Akari, the Japanese word for light, evoking illumination and weightlessness. The exhibition traces how Noguchi presented Akari throughout his career, placing them in dialogue with sculptures in stone, metal, and clay, in settings from domestic interiors to monumental installations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/no-ordinary-light-akari-at-75-124722/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3dde94b8e87a2a6783615435ceecca8394da4dd615823a1f8bb3cbb27527d651-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tour Público Museum Tour in Spanish", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Tour Público is a public museum tour given in Spanish. It takes place monthly on select Fridays and Sundays at The Noguchi Museum. The conversational tour explores selected works from the Museum's collection while introducing the vision of the artist Isamu Noguchi. In keeping with Noguchi's interest in each visitor's personal experience, participants are encouraged to share their observations and interpretations throughout the tour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-publico-museum-tour-in-spanish-56812/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-06-1300-tour-publico-museum-tour-in-spanish/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f074dcefa5ccab30e602e0587b12bf5ec46442f751d3eb9591220e9b7e026a36-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Open Studio: Play with Paper", "start": "2026-11-15T11:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/crafts/paper-crafts"], "description": "Open Studio: Play with Paper is a drop-in art-making workshop for families with children of all ages, held in the Education Studio on Level C. Families explore the museum's galleries and then work together on a related activity, this month looking at Isamu Noguchi's Akari light sculptures and playing with paper to create their own experimental containers for light. The program takes place at The Noguchi Museum and is free with admission, with no advance registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-studio-play-with-paper-56815/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-15-1100-open-studio-play-with-paper/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f9bed104f8ef99679636e0892c8524fac47c70738ea06b9d182e70f8691ef534-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fall Residency Exhibition: Artist Talks & Reception", "start": "2026-11-07T07:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Building 9, Nolan Park", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The Institute for Public Architecture marks the culmination of its 2026 Fall Independent Project Residency with a full house activation on Governors Island, featuring work by Beth Ferguson, Tosin Omolola, Gabriel Gonzalez Depalo, Really Not Really (Stephanie Lee Yeung and Hermano Luz Rodrigues), Susan Isawi, and Visiting Fellow Massimiliano Malagò. The day includes public viewing hours, a performance lecture by Gabriel Gonzalez Depalo titled Pagqank Is Burning, artist talks beginning with welcome remarks by residency director Deborah Garcia, and a closing reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception-52856/", "official_url": "https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/events/fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception", "image": ""}, {"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", "address": "384 Broadway, New York NY 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "IN CONVERSATION: sonia louise davis & Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An In Conversation event at the Hesse Flatow gallery celebrating sonia louise davis's solo exhibition, a promise, a portal, possibility. The artist sonia louise davis talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America. The program includes a special performance by davis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-sonia-louise-davis-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-53014/", "official_url": "https://hesseflatow.com/events/113/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07dd06ba189ea4110533b2518ec6de4fb9ae2ed5b97f9e02ca588e1fc4c20f2c-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": "Framing America: Portraiture, Identity, and Belonging", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "A panel talk with photographers Gina Minielli, Jim Richards, Tony Gonzalez, and Zachary Schulman, moderated by curator Stephanie S. Lee. The conversation explores each artist's photographic practice and approach to portraiture, along with ideas of identity, representation, belonging, and lived experience reflected in the Portraits of America exhibition. It ends with an audience Q&A, and a closing reception begins beforehand. All are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/framing-america-portraiture-identity-and-belonging-52655/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/framing-america-portraiture-identity-and-belonging", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0932397ff4db5ff4428ce1a10df1276c9c4e32fae39f5081b0535ed05b9d591-600.webp"}, {"title": "Madison Square Park Conservancy’s 2026 Public Art Symposium", "start": "2026-11-13T09:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "SVA Theater", "address": "West 23rd Street 333, 10011 New York", "price": "Free and open to all, registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A symposium of talks bringing artists together around public art in civic space, held at a theater on West 23rd Street. It is hosted by Madison Square Park Conservancy, whose 13th annual edition is inspired by Roberto Lugo's Alfarero del Barrio (Village Potter). Participants include Frida Kahlo – Guerrilla Girls, Miguel Luciano, Roberto Lugo, Margarita Rosa, Bonafide Rojas, Derick \"D.\" Cross, Rigoberto Torres, Quiara Alegría Hudes, John Ahearn, Max Gruber, Grace Yasumara and Kraal \"Kayo\" Charles, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation. It is free and open to all, with registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/madison-square-park-conservancys-2026-public-art-symposium-56269/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9271bc0c475873cffe247de388d9fe2226021ef7c23384a61e288ad10dff699-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hank Willis Thomas", "start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Live Arts", "address": "West 19th Street 219, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "Hank Willis Thomas at Ford Foundation Live Gallery is a gallery exhibition of new works by artist Hank Willis Thomas, on view from September 16, 2026 into January 2027. Thomas, trained as a photographer, reinterprets archival images with new or rarely used technical processes, and viewers often must shift position or use a tool such as a camera flash to experience the whole work. The three works shown use 1940s photographs from U.S. government agencies of schoolchildren, many of Japanese descent, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and their titles reference the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Mitsuye Endo. The works examine what it means to be American and how we reconcile the contradictions of history and national identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hank-willis-thomas-54321/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6b782475ce0af6b70903f5ec4df136f24627893c7c5f66fca61bd5920797c81-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cevdet Erek: Americas", "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/sound-art"], "description": "Cevdet Erek: Americas is an exhibition of sound-based sculptural installations at SculptureCenter in Long Island City. It brings together five site-responsive sonic works by Cevdet Erek, a Turkish artist trained as an architect and sound engineer and active as a musician, developed over the last decade for projects in Mexico City, Chicago, San Francisco, São Paulo and the US Embassy in The Hague, alongside a new commission for SculptureCenter that mixes 1980s New York metal with audio samples from the landmark 1984 exhibition Sound/Art. Erek assembles installations that reconfigure how visitors perceive space, tuning into the material qualities of architecture and the social, historical and geographical conditions they occupy. The exhibition, curated by Jovanna Venegas, weaves traces of the works' origins in the Americas into a single, newly distributed sonic environment regrounded in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cevdet-erek-americas-55742/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2eede0a97fed5bcdc760e1d0725426d6e1f8b7e4feacadde36855b9db7873309-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Portraits of America Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "society"], "description": "Portraits of America is a group photography exhibition presenting portraits of individuals whose histories, cultural backgrounds, and lived experiences reflect the evolving idea of American identity. It is presented by Flushing Town Hall and curated by Stephanie S. Lee, with participating artists including Andreas Rentsch, Eva Mallis, Gina Minielli, Gus Philippas, Jim Richards, Tony Gonzalez, and Zachary Schulman. The exhibition asks what it means to be American today, offering many faces and stories rather than a single definition. It does not attempt to define what an American looks like, but invites viewers to look more closely at the people who make up the country.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/portraits-of-america-exhibition-52640/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/401277076e30ab30836f860fc25d68400b6b924b6b12e95a0d9807f51d50562d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land is an art exhibition at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Guest-curated by Jeremy Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and executive director of Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, it features work by Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon, and Dennis himself. The show presents Redeye's monoprint collage, Mahoney's Theories of belonging, Harmon's ntapi nuxwis (I Am Here My Grandchild) and Grandma Warned Me, and staged photography by Dennis. A free opening reception with the artists takes place on September 16, 2026, from 6 to 8 PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-land-54592/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89f07abb0b0e5e5b62b92bea09854aac9cfd2c7b7d33e152d84010df6bd0ccec-2000.webp"}]}