{"title": "OLANA: Frederic Church's Vision of Art and Landscape", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "65.00", "price_to": "65.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/landscape-painting", "nature/landscape"], "description": "A book event at Rizzoli Bookstore celebrating the new volume \"OLANA: Frederic Church's Vision of Art and Landscape\", a survey of how artist Frederic Church's vision transformed the Hudson Valley landscape. Sean E. Sawyer, President of The Olana Partnership, and Thomas L. Woltz, Principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, will be in conversation with freelance design journalist Ian Volner, followed by a booksigning. The book, published for the 2026 bicentennial of Church's birth, showcases his artist-designed home and 250-acre landscape overlooking the Hudson River, blending art, architecture, and panoramic scenery. It features Church's paintings, newly commissioned photography of Olana's Persian-inspired architecture and curving carriage roads, and the revival of Church's living landscape through replanting native species.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/olana-frederic-churchs-vision-of-art-and-landscape-113329/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1159de0dfdfeb7f66f16139fedfeb764b2bf6381a560a338c2434dad54f9c16c-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Victoria Johnson, Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$15/$10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/19th-century"], "description": "An evening lecture and book talk, open to the public in the Members' Room and online, presented by The New York Society Library. Writer and Hunter College professor Victoria Johnson presents her new biography of the 19th-century American painter Frederic Church, published on the artist's bicentennial. Drawing on Church's letters, sketches, diaries, and travels to places like Egypt, the Andes, and Jerusalem, she shows how his landscapes of remote lands and seas put American art on the map of world culture. Church, a founder of New York's first great museum, the Met, is portrayed as an adventurer who turned landscape painting into a portrait of a nation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/victoria-johnson-glorious-country-how-the-artist-frederic-ch-79669/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/victoria-johnson-glorious-country-frederic-church", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a123ddd3863fc51776c6e0cde1f97574bcbef69ca36d1787d1313444cf9ae859-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond the Landscape: Victoria Johnson on Glorious Country and the World of Frederic Church", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "$20 Adult, $10 Museum Member, $12 Educator, Senior, Student, Visitors with Disabilities", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/biography"], "description": "An illustrated evening talk at Cooper Hewitt's lecture room, with a welcome and an optional audience Q&A. Victoria Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and professor at Hunter College, speaks on the life of the artist Frederic Church, whose footsteps she followed around the globe for her new biography, Glorious Country. She tells how Church's curiosity, bravery, and passion for nature drove him to explore the world, and how his acclaimed, blockbuster paintings persuaded skeptical critics that the \"New World\" could produce towering artists, bringing the world to America and America to the world. The program is part of Frederic Church in Jamaica, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beyond-the-landscape-victoria-johnson-on-glorious-country-an-52200/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/beyond-the-landscape-victoria-johnson-on-glorious-country-and-the-world-of-frederic-church-11-12-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4ed1ea7816c4a4b6f7a2c2b9fcb8f2691f62b34749c7ee55f29ab8c390b4cb66-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Drop-in Sketching in the Galleries", "start": "2026-11-13T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-13T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Free with museum admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A drop-in sketching session held in the museum's galleries, open to all with no drawing experience required. Participants sketch within the Frederic Church in Jamaica exhibition, which explores the painter's sketches of the Jamaican landscape from his 1865 journey to the island. Drawing prompts, seating, and materials are provided, and space is limited on a first come, first served basis. The session takes place in the Conservatory on the second floor of Cooper Hewitt, a fully wheelchair accessible space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/drop-in-sketching-in-the-galleries-52201/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/drop-in-sketching-in-the-galleries-11-13-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15532423ffd1e901bb9c1d3f0014a5eb6942313a8e8d85be4e7a2ebc491e47c8-2000.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": "Open [Block] House", "start": "2026-11-07T07:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Building 9, Nolan Park", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "Open [Block] House is a day of workshops, talks, studio visits and more at Nolan Park - Building 9. It is hosted by The Institute for Public Architecture (IPA), which welcomes a new cohort of fellows to Governors Island this Fall. Visitors can join Open Studio visits to see in-progress prototyping and research, public reading hours in the IPA library, and meet the Fall Fellows working in sustainable design, architecture, art and landscape architecture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-block-house-52855/", "official_url": "https://instituteforpublicarchitecture.org/2026-Fall-Open-Block-House-Series", "image": "https://noky.io/images/171e598a95a23791545d2114dfa03956e2d05f696ccfe7dfc213b001d47f763a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Shelter from the Storm: An Artist's Eye with Stan Allen and Polly Apfelbaum", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-16T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "National Academy of Design", "address": "West 26th Street 519, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "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, on view from September 18, 2026 to January 16, 2027. It is a collaborative curatorial project by architect Stan Allen and visual artist Polly Apfelbaum, a married couple selected by the Academy's Exhibition Committee for their complementary ways of thinking and making. Part of the Academy's ongoing Artist's Eye series begun in 1992, it is the first edition since 2013, the first co-curated by two National Academicians, the first curated by an architect, and the first collection-only show of this scale since the Chelsea galleries opened in 2023. The exhibition brings together works from the Academy's collection that explore conflict, memory, and resilience, rethinking its historic holdings through the curators' practices and highlighting connections across landscape, abstraction, architecture, figuration, and cityscape.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shelter-from-the-storm-an-artists-eye-with-stan-allen-and-po-107886/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lawrence Weiner in: UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN", "start": "2026-08-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Parrish Art Museum", "address": "279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill, NY 11976", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/conceptual-art"], "description": "UNTIL THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAIN is a two-part exhibition considering material and conceptual approaches to engaging with landscape, shown across spaces in Manhattan and Long Island's East End. It is a curatorial partnership between The FLAG Art Foundation and the Parrish Art Museum, curated by Scout Hutchinson and Jonathan Rider with Caroline Cassidy. The title is drawn from a 1994 text-based work by conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner, printed in vinyl and presented on the Parrish façade, suggesting dramatic natural forms simply through language. The presentation features work by Dan Colen, N. Dash, Andy Goldsworthy, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long, Delcy Morelos, Jonathan Sánchez Noa, Martin Puryear, Eric-Paul Riege, Christine Howard Sandoval, Michelle Stuart, Martha Tuttle, Meg Webster, and Lawrence Weiner.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lawrence-weiner-in-until-the-moon-comes-over-the-mountain-52825/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75f50f4cf08756901f386947051bdc48688ec9ac68d5617ea1dd2927ec871434-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Family Program | Botanical Prints", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Free with museum admission", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["science/biology/botany", "diy/printmaking"], "description": "Family Program | Botanical Prints is a drop-in hands-on workshop at Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where youth ages 5–12 and their adult guardians create botanical prints using gel plates. It is part of the museum's monthly second-Saturday family activities and is inspired by the exhibition Frederic Church in Jamaica, whose botanical sketches made on treks through Jamaica's landscape will be on view. A museum educator guides participants as they use ferns and other botanical pressings to make prints capturing the details of nature; no experience is necessary and all materials are provided. The program is included with museum admission, youth 18 and under are always free, and registration is not required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/family-program-botanical-prints-52202/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/family-program-botanical-prints-11-14-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f8528b50a2390433981e8bf089e447b0be0aade8c1b5754211d3b482fb44c174-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Charles Burchfield: Elemental", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/watercolor", "nature"], "description": "Charles Burchfield: Elemental is an exhibition of watercolors at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It presents works by Charles Burchfield (1893–1967), who over five decades painted what he called the \"tremendous force of nature.\" Drawn from the Whitney's collection, the show includes early landscapes, meditations on the sky, and monumental \"reconstructions\" that reflect his reverence for the elemental forces and cycles of the natural world. Organized by curatorial assistant Caroline Webb, the exhibition is part of an ongoing initiative to present rarely seen works from the museum's collection and is on view on Floor 7 through Spring 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/charles-burchfield-elemental-67469/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9b4398db2d77dbd63763a4bd668deaea9eb2dd9e4a35ddfed32538ccb83f9c3-2000.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"}, {"title": "The Beverly Hills Housewife", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "$34.95", "price_from": "27.95", "price_to": "75.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "literature"], "description": "A book event celebrating 'The Beverly Hills Housewife: Hockney's Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool' at the Rizzoli Bookstore. Author James Cahill will be in conversation with Patrick Monahan, followed by a signing. The book weaves together David Hockney's discovery of Los Angeles with the story of Betty Freeman, the collector he painted in 'Beverly Hills Housewife' (1966-67), moving between art history and anecdote.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-beverly-hills-housewife-55427/", "official_url": "https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/beverly-hills-housewife", "image": "https://noky.io/images/faf056c38c2bdb24978fc26ba318c58f95ecbd6d040caa2608073a03262fa52d-600.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society"], "description": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design is an exhibition at Van Alen Institute's Brooklyn space that invites five artists and design teams to respond to the institute's historic archive. Van Alen Institute has spent more than 130 years at the intersection of design ambition and civic life, and its archive of competition boards, jury records, travel logs, and correspondence is one of the most extensive records of American architectural history. Working directly with these materials, the participants ask what the archive reveals about who design has historically served and whom it has erased, through works such as sonic installations summoning uncredited voices and core samples grounding architecture in land history. Visitors are invited to explore the exhibition with curiosity and skepticism, treating the archive as living material to be questioned and reinterpreted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-access-exploring-130-years-of-american-design-57334/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64844e8853810e08d6817a2b007c3c46562ffdf6503ee3d9177bfd96dd15cd41-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "17.35", "price_to": "17.35", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An evening conversation on the American furniture movement, held at the New York School of Interior Design. Curators Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht will interview Dennis Miller, author of the book Art + Furniture: An Oral History of the American Furniture Movement, published by Abbeville Press. The book grew out of an oral history project at the school's archives and tells the movement's story through its protagonists' words, with contemporary and archival photography. The evening includes a reception and ends with a book signing, with copies available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-54344/", "official_url": "https://www.nysid.edu/events-calendar/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller", "image": "https://noky.io/images/146338c651cf249f12c250a75849e6bed51fc8b9d89d3e776df1b646927829a4-1200.webp"}, {"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": "ASL Artist Talk: Patterns and Shapes in Nature", "start": "2026-11-14T13:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "Free (preregistration required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design", "nature/plants"], "description": "ASL Artist Talk: Patterns and Shapes in Nature is a guided American Sign Language tour exploring the patterns, shapes, and colors of tropical plants. Artist and designer Trevor Baldwin leads participants in recognizing specific patterns among the plants in Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Conservatory, drawing parallels with the fashions of Iris van Herpen. An outdoor seasonal highlights tour follows, expanding the observation of patterns and building an interactive nature vocabulary. The program is designed for the d/Deaf community, and some portions are without voice interpretation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asl-artist-talk-patterns-and-shapes-in-nature-79181/", "official_url": "https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/asl_artist_talk_patterns_and_shapes_in_nature", "image": "https://noky.io/images/772f00265c74bdb75ae17cf595537bdf2ecabaf1b3d33b3e7518f261b859346a-1200.webp"}]}