{"title": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985", "start": "2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://10432.blackbaudhosting.com/10432/tickets?tab=3&txobjid=ce23ab70-3780-425c-af6b-69b587dc0111", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/black-history"], "description": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 is an exhibition on the role photography played in shaping a distinctly Black artistic and cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, it is curated by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis, and overseen at the Mississippi Museum of Art by Kaegan Sparks. Through works by over 100 artists, it shows the medium's versatility as art, design, organizing tool, and community builder. From Kwame Brathwaite's fashion photography to Gordon Parks's photojournalism, it reveals how studio and street photographers, designers, activists, and community organizers used photography to document, imagine, and transform Black life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photography-and-the-black-arts-movement-19551985-66542/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fabd552951a38ecc401d93b1e2a1434a68e1aee6a97f5da1d1ea57e9a413ab9c-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "DPI Presents: Another View Book Launch and Signing Featuring Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and Awol Erizku (Phaidon)", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrt3SWkpxscQMAkM0VN7NduG5Tqq7Ncs-1CsKWQ5qcw33_2g/viewform?usp=publish-editor", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature"], "description": "A panel and book launch with signing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging, held in Riese Lounge on the 1st floor and with limited seating. Editor Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and photographer Awol Erizku present \"Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists\" (Phaidon). The book explores the studios, living spaces, and creative processes of twenty notable Black artists through 150 never-before-published photographs by Erizku, with profiles based on interviews by Brielmaier and an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A government-issued photo ID is required for entry, and guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-another-view-book-launch-and-signing-featuring-53240/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/events/dpi-presents--dpi-professor-isolde-s-book-signing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0cc6fc700a494b95fd85d0c9b2f56c6dd16ddf448a0d0f3bca12c35f284dd46-2000.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": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNEkWV1J4mE1U_jXmIiNdgteScif8G824i4vsT41XgHI8hMg/viewform?usp=header", "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"}, {"title": "Aperture Loves New York", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An exhibition of photographs presented at Aperture's new home in New York, which includes a bookstore and gallery. Titled Aperture Loves New York, it pays tribute to photographers who have shaped—and been shaped by—the city, bringing together memorable photographs with corresponding Aperture books. Organized by Sarah Meister, Executive Director, it features photographs by more than twenty artists, including Carrie Mae Weems alongside Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Stephen Shore and others. The presentation is anchored in Aperture's publishing history and captures the complex spirit of New York City.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aperture-loves-new-york-52823/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01f606e79ae5221535406ec353c0fac27a1d59a8705dc68b279e91fc9ae00845-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Renée Cox: Take A Good Look", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Ethan Cohen Gallery", "address": "West 19th Street 251, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/identity"], "description": "Take A Good Look is a solo exhibition at Ethan Cohen Gallery's Chelsea location, opening with a reception and running through October 31. The Jamaican-American photographer Renée Cox shows works from the early 1990s to the present, tracing over three decades of her photography, self-representation, and the politics of the image. Placing her own body at the center of pictures she has historically been excluded from, she reworks visual languages of Western art, Christianity, colonialism, and popular culture, from Yo Mama's Last Supper to the Queen Nanny of the Maroons and Soul Culture series. The show opens alongside the gallery's solo presentation of Cox at The Armory Show in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/renee-cox-take-a-good-look-52514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/edc4eed0eab65484f2a348c349f4d3595a1eaab21a69e2964c03adbda605468e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One", "start": "2026-04-16T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "Tomashi Jackson and Robert Rauschenberg: The Catch One is an exhibition of newly commissioned paintings by Tomashi Jackson shown in dialogue with works by Robert Rauschenberg from The Glass House's permanent collection. 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Curated by Cole Akers, the exhibition is organized by The Glass House in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tomashi-jackson-and-robert-rauschenberg-the-catch-one-66559/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Book Event – Gerald Cyrus: Uptown Odyssey", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "International Center of Photography", "address": "Ludlow Street 84, 10002 New York", "price": "$5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/events/262/list?date=2026-11-04T00:00:00-0500&membershipIds=", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "A book event at the International Center of Photography celebrating the release of Gerald Cyrus's monograph Uptown Odyssey, offered both in person and online. It features a conversation between photographer Gerald Cyrus and artist and writer Gioncarlo Valentine. Uptown Odyssey gathers Cyrus's black-and-white photographs of Harlem made across the 1990s, moving from the streets and subway to the neighborhood's nightclubs and music scene. In-person tickets cost $5 and do not include access to ICP's galleries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-event-gerald-cyrus-uptown-odyssey-53182/", "official_url": "https://www.icp.org/events/book-event-gerald-cyrus-uptown-odyssey", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4abb96bf1824de0d0e5253b8c2b710f53925cc94908b04b490436e2b0daf5fe3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tremaine Emory: Denim Tears From the Pool of Black Genius", "start": "2026-09-14T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/fashion"], "description": "An exhibition titled “Denim Tears From the Pool of Black Genius” presents the creative practice of Tremaine Emory, shown as his first solo exhibition and retrospective. It places his pieces alongside works by artists who inspired him, among them Arthur Jafa, Hank Willis Thomas, and Hammons. The curation underscores the breadth of Emory’s references, and that his fashion output was always designed to be in conversation with the culture at large.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tremaine-emory-denim-tears-from-the-pool-of-black-genius-66530/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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, "tickets_url": "https://newyorklivearts.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVt00000ZXEfyMAH", "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": "Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz", "start": "2026-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An exhibition bringing together a selection of works from the historic gift of Peggy Cooper Cafritz's art collection to the Studio Museum in Harlem, running through February 28, 2027. Cafritz (1947–2018), an arts patron, educator, and civil rights activist who cofounded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, bequeathed the majority of her collection to the museum. Her bequest included over four hundred works by more than two hundred artists of African descent, spanning paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper. This is the first exhibition to tell a story of Cafritz as an art collector, organized by curator Connie H. Choi and curatorial assistant Kiki Teshome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dreams-of-this-future-the-collection-of-peggy-cooper-cafritz-53893/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67180f9368199293b0017c080175ce6483022d6e107f04ed540b02a028f1ce22-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "society/black-culture"], "description": "\"Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death\" is an acclaimed seven-and-a-half-minute video work shown as an exhibition. It was made by visual artist, cinematographer, and film director Arthur Jafa, an American born in 1960. The video condenses the history and lived experience of Black life in the United States into a rapid, emotionally charged montage set to Kanye West's gospel-inflected track \"Ultralight Beam.\" Combining found footage from films, news broadcasts, viral videos, and historical archives with Jafa's own material, it juxtaposes joy, creativity, and Black cultural achievement with documentation of violence and oppression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-66508/", "official_url": "https://chrysler.org/exhibition/arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/adc8aac1e039ca1193b1dfdfc35799dec0ac7f0e1ca80dc526b96dcacc040c7f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "BFA Photography and Video Exhibition Fall 2026", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "\"Momentum\" is an exhibition of work by all third-year students in the BFA Photography and Video program, with an opening reception. It is presented by BFA Photography and Video and curated by Seminar faculty Tanyth Berkeley and Greg Pond, who show their respective students' work in separate sections of the SVA Gramercy Gallery. The exhibition marks the start of the third year of the curriculum, a moment for students to reflect on their practice and how to hone it moving forward. Among the featured artists are Victoria Andrews, Tianyue Feng, Hyun Ihm, Alexander Poe and Ue Zeng.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bfa-photography-and-video-exhibition-fall-2026-79562/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/bfa-photography-and-video-exhibition-fall-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f803a63d35dc3ddbe6913412608fd339f18c89738edfdd30eb0422dfb2b80a11-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jennie C. Jones and Melvin Edwards", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "MoMA PS1", "address": "22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens, NY 11101", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Jennie C. Jones and Melvin Edwards are included in the group exhibition Hard Art, on view at MoMA PS1 in Queens from November 5, 2026. Hard Art is a major exhibition examining the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today. It features over forty artists, juxtaposing historical painters who came to prominence in the 1970s with recent conceptually driven practices in sculpture, video, sound, and painting, and traces the legacy of three generations of artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jennie-c-jones-and-melvin-edwards-50913/", "official_url": "https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/744-hard-art", "image": ""}]}