{"title": "Nov 5, 2026 event with Sholette at Printed Matter", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism"], "description": "This is the New York launch of the book The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World (MIT Press), taking the form of a conversation between its author, Gregory Sholette, and the artist and writer Naeem Mohaiemen. Sholette's book examines how artists navigate a collapse of historical time, tracing a rupture through Brexit, Trump, COVID, and the J6 Capitol attack, and arguing that MAGA acts as a \"retro-vanguard\" manufacturing its own imaginary past. Against this, he proposes the \"phantom archive,\" in which artists resist through repair and reenactment, from Belarus protest art to Michael Rakowitz's reconstruction of a destroyed Assyrian artifact. Mohaiemen, whose work on excavating institutional memory is featured in the book, joins for an evening on memory, resistance, and what remains unfinished.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nov-5-2026-event-with-sholette-at-printed-matter-55021/", "official_url": "http://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2291", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a3977df7f7039555c697541f88f912ddf6e822803cc0839507acc201bfe0272-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Radical Unpresent — Gregory Sholette in conversation with Naeem Mohaiemen", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics", "art"], "description": "An evening talk at Printed Matter, Inc. celebrating the New York launch of Gregory Sholette's new book, The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World, published by MIT Press. The book argues that a rupture in historical time runs through Brexit, Trump, COVID, and the J6 Capitol attack, casting MAGA as a new \"retro-vanguard\" manufacturing its own imaginary past, and proposes the \"phantom archive\" as a space where artists resist this dislocation through repair and reenactment. Sholette will be joined in conversation by Naeem Mohaiemen, an artist and writer whose work, also featured in the book, excavates institutional memory including the buried archives of the nonaligned movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-radical-unpresent-gregory-sholette-in-conversation-with-89359/", "official_url": "https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2291", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a3977df7f7039555c697541f88f912ddf6e822803cc0839507acc201bfe0272-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Radical Permanence: Artists Cultural Producers and The Interconnection of Struggles", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-13T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "P.I.T. Records and Books", "address": "South 5th Street 411, 11211 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism", "society/politics"], "description": "A talk with Marco Baravalle (Sale Docks, Venice), Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain (Decolonize This Place), and Kazembe Balagun (Maysles Documentary Center), with further guests to be announced. Baravalle presents his book 'The Battleground of Art: Radical Curating in the Crisis of Neoliberalism' and his concept of 'radical permanence', drawn from two decades of art activism with Sale Docks, an autonomous collective in Venice. It opposes the neoliberal regime of mobility of artists and art workers through self-management, social rootedness and resistance, linking struggles against artwashing, gentrification and labour precarisation. The speakers discuss activist practices in Venice, New York and Palestine and the role of artists and cultural producers in the global interconnection of struggles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/radical-permanence-artists-cultural-producers-and-the-interc-54885/", "official_url": "https://www.propertyistheft.org/events/kp5imszmm09yfp4g9umdbu6e9mb0gv", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92238af6021126d570becfa05f089e1935b51430b5eca1f9bcb4cc344c39bbd7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Broken: The Power of the Fragment", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-24T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An exhibition celebrating the evocative power of the fragment in the history of sculpture, from archaeology to contemporary art. Organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and curated by C. D. Dickerson III, Andrew Sears and Arturo Galansino, it brings together more than eighty works and artefacts from Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece, Michelangelo and Rodin to contemporary artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Vezzoli and Danh Vo. The show examines the fragment not simply as the remnant of a lost whole, but as an autonomous object that preserves traces of memory and transformation, prompting reflection on the value a sculpture acquires after breakage. It also features a new installation by Mark Manders conceived for the Renaissance Courtyard.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/broken-the-power-of-the-fragment-66849/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c3e66e3625dba41e126e4511f79800f442530c993de927ae2dc2dab677dee56e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Marni Kotak: Midterms Moonshot Presented by Microscope Gallery at Grace Exhibition Space 182 Avenue C (at 12th Street)", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Grace Exhibition Space", "address": "182 Avenue C (at 12th Street)", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An evening of Marni Kotak's solo exhibition \"America on the Dark Side of the Moon,\" presented by Microscope Gallery at Grace Exhibition Space in the East Village, taking place as the midterm results roll in. Kotak continues her durational performance/installation, drawing on dollar bills in real time in response to live-streamed election coverage projected in the space. Visitors are invited to join the artist in her living room installation, lit by a large moon, to discuss their thoughts and emotional responses to the political events, and receive Mylar moon balloons with the exhibition title hand-drawn by Kotak. The works are inspired by her experience of a mental health crisis in 2016, when she heard Richard Nixon's voice telling her this was America on the dark side of the moon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/marni-kotak-midterms-moonshot-presented-by-microscope-galler-79351/", "official_url": "https://microscopegallery.com/marni-kotak-midterms-moonshot/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1460c542cb04872422c46218c159229a138ec2bca48ccfdf3b82fb9a5a0b6c0b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Triple Canopy Symposium 2026 (Day 2)", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "Free w/ RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/culture"], "description": "Triple Canopy Symposium 2026 (Day 2) is a multiday gathering bringing together artists, writers, performers, and researchers to address the role of culture in responding (or contributing) to a range of critical issues. It is the annual symposium of the magazine Triple Canopy, a manifestation of its concerns and collaborations in person and in real time. The day features sessions on artificial voices, misogyny and colonial ideology in technology, prediction markets, and performance as a mode of necromancy. A free livestream will be available at 1pm and archived for future viewing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/triple-canopy-symposium-2026-day-2-55466/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Triple Canopy Symposium 2026 (Day 1)", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "Free w/ RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "literature"], "description": "An evening of performances and readings titled Every A-Side Has a B-Side, opening the Triple Canopy Symposium 2026. The magazine Triple Canopy presents its annual symposium together with Roulette, in partnership with Critical Minded. Artists and writers including Sol Cabrini, Jonathan González, Nile Harris, Taja Cheek (L'Rain), T. Lax, and yuniya edi kwon draw on the book On Value, edited by Triple Canopy and Ralph Lemon, to consider the value of liveness and the ideology of ownership. Lemon will introduce the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/triple-canopy-symposium-2026-day-1-55465/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/triple-canopy-symposium-2026-day-1/", "image": ""}, {"title": "La Merde! The Mole!", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "$12 general, $10 student", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "art"], "description": "A screening of two films, Aline Bouvy's La Merde and Jakub Jansa's The Silence of the Mole, followed by a conversation with the artists. The program is guest-curated by Peter Sit and was created for the Luxembourg Pavilion and the Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Jansa's film follows an aging performer who has spent his life embodying the beloved Czechoslovak Little Mole and retreats underground as an unlocatable sound disturbs his refuge, asking whether silence is a failure to act or a form of resistance. Bouvy's film follows an anthropomorphic excrement figure through everyday situations of discipline, rejection, and invisibility, combining grotesque humor and tenderness to examine shame as a social construct.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/la-merde-the-mole-52437/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783399/la-merde-the-mole-nbsp/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/671c6cfd380bb62ddc1ec1cc68e2448a288399bf17ce8b5919319c0f455bb9f7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening night performance | Monobloc Harp by Dan Ortiz Leizman", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An opening night performance and reception for the group exhibition 'Haunted by Light'. Artist Dan Ortiz Leizman turns the mundane monobloc chair into a string instrument, playing ephemeral sounds described as 'apocalyptic folk music' that navigate the nostalgia and personal memories marked on the chair. The exhibition gathers photoreactive media such as cyanotypes, autoradiographs, lumen photography, plant ashes in glass sculptures, and audiovisual environments for collective mourning. RSVP is free but strongly encouraged; light refreshments will be served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-night-performance-monobloc-harp-by-dan-ortiz-leizman-56199/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/xax7gq0vopa6lp3gfd8bkexrp0u1jw", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c63b359262e961b198da9323c7b01a3f61046fb4374698322a7b63841a47959-1200.webp"}, {"title": "An Economy of Means: Contemporary Artists on Minimalism", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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": "Beyond the Margins: Bronx Museum Teens Activate the Permanent Collection", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in which fourteen New York City high school students present works they curated from the museum's permanent collection, spanning printmaking, photography, painting, and assemblage by eleven artists. The show, Beyond the Margins: Bronx Museum Teens Activate the Permanent Collection, is the outcome of the museum's Teen Summer 2026 program, guided by educators Duneska Michel, Jinette Jimenez, and Madison Green and shaped by three questions: how artists defy convention, experiment with materials, and use their work as resistance. It frames defiance as a sustained practice of surpassing limitations, inviting viewers to consider what it means to push boundaries in everyday life. Comprehensive records of the works on view are available online for the first time as part of the museum's digitization of its collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beyond-the-margins-bronx-museum-teens-activate-the-permanent-51515/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/40690c78fc45594cdb564279cc45b0e46cf07bdd68aa8793974a4dbecdf7fa8c-2000.webp"}]}