{"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, "tickets_url": "", "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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Culture of Place", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism"], "description": "Culture of Place is a public conversation on how architecture can support community organizations that give people places to gather and a voice in their neighborhoods' futures. 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Drawing on their practices and perspectives on Black cultural memory, they will examine what architects can learn from people already doing the work of building community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/culture-of-place-57339/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4365a4c136c0c0b94778d78397882a3c6b0f222b9a9bbec42cf06d31d07622bb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Why Design?", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-02T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Center for Architecture", "address": "LaGuardia Place 546", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/law"], "description": "Why Design? is an exhibition of K-12 student design work by the Center for Architecture's Learning and Engagement Department. 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The publication examines the pursuit of equity in architecture and design education in the United States amid widening political divides around race and class. 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Curated collaboratively by architect Stan Allen and visual artist Polly Apfelbaum, a married couple, it draws entirely from the Academy's collection as part of the Artist's Eye series begun in 1992. The exhibition brings together work exploring conflict, memory, and resilience, rethinking the Academy's historic holdings across landscape, abstraction, architecture, figuration, and cityscape. 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It was initiated after the 2020 movement for Black Lives to enact systemic change across the design fields, changing how we gather, teach, and produce design. The show is curated in three parts: recording past DMU work, documenting current efforts, and a provocation for the future. It is curated and produced by a Dark Matter U network team, co-led by Venesa Alicea-Chuqui, Jerome Haferd, and Sophie Weston Chien.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dark-matter-u-justice-pedagogy-design-51771/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af5462535782d1e55ca5d0c599e99fe6604d19b83bf4bdb94d66665abb2c77bb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/tickets?tab=3&txobjid=cf1953e5-423a-4bfb-a460-1d8fbe19df62", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/activism"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition Raise Your Voice: New York Activism at the Museum of the City of New York. This one-hour tour looks at the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in the exhibition. MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive, and author or editor of publications including Signs of Change and Signal. 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Curated by Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht, it explores the origins, contributions, and legacies of the art and studio furniture movements from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. It showcases furniture, related objects, and photographs of twenty artists who blurred the lines between fine art and useful objects and between design and craft. The exhibition was designed by Studio Joseph with production and publication by Poleshuk Design, and is accompanied by a book available at NYSID.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-furniture-designers-makers-and-advocates-54345/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/da8524b347f37c3f87a9a35a644eee6507f9891e1e92eec0917669d6dc878fe9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bethany Collins", "start": "2026-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-14T00:00:00-05:00", "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/contemporary", "society/politics"], "description": "Bethany Collins takes part in the group exhibition \"We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment\" at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The exhibition fills the museum's main galleries and is organized around five topics: civics, history, family and kinship, map-making, and care for the environment. Its title quotes \"Bless this Land,\" a 2019 poem by former US poet laureate and Indigenous activist Joy Harjo, an important influence on the show. Guided by American democratic ideals of participation and experimentation, it invites visitors to consider their own role in conversations about the past and future of the United States, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bethany-collins-66128/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba7f3513fe9acec48cf83a6c0a0478436c1e83edf85250da286ffd6ceeab0424-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Correspondences: de Appel 1975–2025", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "http://www.printedmatter.org/services/submit-your-book", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The New York book launch and opening of an archival display for \"Correspondences: de Appel 1975–2025\", a publication drawing on fifty years of correspondence from the de Appel Archive in Amsterdam. The book was initiated by Martha Jager and co-edited with Hannah Cheney with de Appel archivist Nell Donkers, published by de Appel, and traces the networks behind the institution's exhibitions, performances, publications and programs through letters, telegrams, postcards, faxes and emails from over a hundred correspondents. The display brings original material from the archive to New York, including letters and postcards sent from the city to Amsterdam some thirty to fifty years ago. It is convened by Darling Green and curated by Martha Jager in dialogue with de Appel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/correspondences-de-appel-19752025-55022/", "official_url": "https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2333", "image": "https://noky.io/images/27e150cd2c8faa3b85fded16e34ab8b93d988e7239e3b3c3312df9f6d532a5a7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open [Block] House", "start": "2026-11-07T07:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Building 9", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "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": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.nysid.edu/shop-nysid-gear", "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": "The Architect & The Housewife", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-05-09T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.groningermuseum.nl/nl/2025/tickets", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An international group exhibition about who gets to design 'the house' and who takes care of it, bringing together contemporary artists whose work considers maintaining an artistic practice amid everyday chores. It takes its title from Frances Stark's 1999 publication 'The Architect & The Housewife', in which she uses the figures of the architect and the housewife to examine power relations in the art world and daily life. Curated by Roos Gortzak and Clare Molloy, it features artists including Sol Calero, Zaha Hadid, Alessandro Mendini, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Vivian Suter and Nicole Wermers. The exhibition also marks the start of a process in which the Groninger Museum further examines its own history and collection, looking back to its postmodern building and experimental 1990s course while looking ahead to urgent questions of the twenty-first century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-architect-the-housewife-66529/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e68d4747a92d5642b7d0861a40efa3f71ae3240ddbcada5605307f29ac7aac64-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Omari Douglin", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "29 Lafayette Ave", "address": "29 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art/murals"], "description": "A public mural titled 'Junction' by the visual artist Omari Douglin, on view to the public. Commissioned as part of BAM's Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative, it was inspired by the Hamm Archives, a collection chronicling the institution's history and programming. The work layers archival images from BAM's Next Wave Journals, magazines, posters and advertisements from the 1980s and 1990s, reimagined in Douglin's painting style, with jazz musician Miles Davis at its center drawn from a 1994 GAP advertisement. Its yellow background echoes Keith Haring's 1984 poster for Secret Pastures, reflecting how one artistic discipline informs another.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/omari-douglin-51205/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/483cddb2282d252cd98e2bd1d26badd1b1b3b611b363beae28f3aef9509f5d51-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Homes for People, Not for Profit", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "http://www.printedmatter.org/services/submit-your-book", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art", "society/housing"], "description": "A window installation at Printed Matter featuring painted stencils on the store's window, which visitors can watch being made and add to on a collective banner and newsprint posters. It is created by Art Against Displacement, artist Alex Strada, and FEC Tenants Against Demolition, and reactivates Homeless At Home, a 1985–86 project in which artists and architects designed stencils speaking to the public about human dignity and home for everyone. The installation responds to the proximity of NYCHA's Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, which face demolition under a $1.2 billion plan with private developers. During its run, a supply drive collects winter accessories and hygiene supplies for unhoused community members, and a zine and related publications are displayed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/homes-for-people-not-for-profit-55016/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/757180e88c841913fbc88aecc8accabe5dd010c1e35a7fa96cacea6cd294262e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DPI Presents: The Object/Photograph: From the Archives of the Department of Photography & Imaging", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "The exhibition \"The Object/Photograph: From the Archives of the Department of Photography & Imaging\" presents original photographic prints drawn from the study archive of NYU Tisch's Department of Photography and Imaging. It was assembled by Mark Jenkinson, an associate arts professor in the department, and honors the legacy of Lee D. Witkin, an early adjunct professor and pioneering gallerist whose donations include many of the key works. The show traces photography from its roots in the first documented camera obscura to its power to reveal truths, from evidence for the General Theory of Relativity to a 1965 photograph that helped lead to the Voting Rights Act. Among the treasures rediscovered in drawers are works such as Joel Meyerowitz's dye-transfer print \"Street Busker, Paris, France, 1967\"; RSVP is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-the-objectphotograph-from-the-archives-of-the-d-53232/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8eb95652ef86032381977a024cd69e4822a894f55efdc6a44ed2b4bdaaa25da1-600.webp"}]}