{"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, "tickets_url": "", "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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35689/production/1293599", "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. 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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": "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": "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": "DPI Presents: Incoming 2026 Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "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": "An exhibition of photography and moving image works by first-year students, on view in the Clive Davis NYU Gallery. Curated by the students themselves, it brings their individual practices into dialogue with the frameworks of their DPI first-year seminar. The works move across personal narrative, cultural memory, identity and the shifting relationship between images and reality. It is supported by Professors Rose DeSiano and Andrea Geyer along with TAs Jackie Abhulimen and Nicole Motta.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-incoming-2026-exhibition-79231/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Fall 2026 BFA Photography and Video Student Exhibitions: Clio Bildman, Weston Lee Andrews, and Yikai Wang", "start": "2026-10-09T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-06T12:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sva-bfa-photography-and-video-fall-2026-student-exhibitions-receptions-tickets-2002764549681?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "The Fall 2026 BFA Photography and Video Student Exhibitions present work by three students: Clio Bildman, Weston Lee Andrews, and Yikai Wang. Presented by the BFA Photography and Video department, it is the first cycle of its fall 2026 student exhibitions, held at 214 East 21st Street. On the 2nd floor, Clio Bildman shows “Inside the Stranger” and Weston Lee Andrews shows “A Road Trip to Philly,” while Yikai Wang shows “Temporary Homes” on the 5th floor. The works were selected through a semesterly open call, and viewing outside the reception hours requires an email appointment for non-SVA visitors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-2026-bfa-photography-and-video-student-exhibitions-clio-55723/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4618033109cad451d46807e8f10ffac0fd9be5d2c15d1db36298615804d42325-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Duo: Jason Byron Gavann & Jack Pierson", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "\"Duo: Jason Byron Gavann & Jack Pierson\" is a photography exhibition at Daniel Cooney Fine Art presenting portraits by two artists whose friendship spans nearly five decades. Jason Byron Gavann and Jack Pierson met in Boston in the early 1970s, when Gavann introduced Pierson to the city's LGBTQ+ social scene, and both became associated with the Boston School. Gavann shows vintage black-and-white and color photographs documenting queer life in Boston and Provincetown, while Pierson's contemporary portraits combine color and black-and-white imagery within individual frames. Using portraiture as common ground, the exhibition considers the ties between friendship, artistic influence, and the cultural communities that shape an artist's vision.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/duo-jason-byron-gavann-jack-pierson-52262/", "official_url": "https://www.danielcooneyfineart.com/exhibitions/duo-jason-byron-gavann-jack-pierson", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7dec6f73a5bb6ac145aca06e6ba2c719a80a03179d9d9e081538835b5348dfcf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Donald Moffett", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "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", "history/us"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational writings, Common Sense and The American Crisis, with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Donald Moffett, and Maynard Monrow. Donald Moffett contributes a newly commissioned text-based work using graphic design strategies to deliver the message that power lies with us. As 250 years ago, the country navigates deep division, and the exhibition presents contemporary art as offering hope, inspiration, and momentum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/donald-moffett-50912/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82926d8d53a2a2e39799b64bf9dd1628a0da5444c084f8eec898db4e8c12a086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Stone's Throw", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Stone's Throw is an exhibition of twenty visual artists presented by the Tallichet Freedman Foundation and hosted by Lorimoto Gallery in Ridgewood, Queens. All twenty artists lived or worked in the 11385 ZIP code of Queens at the time of their grant awards, and most continue to do so today. Their work offers a creative portrait of the neighborhood, showcasing sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, performance, and design. The foundation supports visual artists in Ridgewood through unrestricted micro grants, filmed studio interviews, gatherings, exhibitions, and public programming.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stones-throw-52648/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/985?showNameSlug=stones-throw", "image": "https://noky.io/images/286cdccb434d813f162951bf59d48190b37e92c9ed70ebc3d7cdc726ada192d8-600.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": "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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$180 hair & makeup + portrait (30 min); $50 portrait only (about 10 min); two-day festival admission", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "180.00", "tickets_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living is a portrait session where you can be photographed for your own iei, the portrait placed at a Japanese funeral, while you are still alive. It is part of the Memento Mori in NYC event at Resobox and is led by New York photographer Tokio Kuniyoshi with hair and makeup artist Michael. In Japan more and more people are choosing their own funeral portrait themselves, and the session is less about preparing for death than about honoring the person you are today. Photos are retouched and delivered as digital files on the spot, with hair and makeup or portrait-only options.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iei-a-portrait-of-the-life-you-are-living-55325/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/600a7a691778b6c7249c987caadd9b73fecddb4aeb60970da6a0481797cd0f56-2000.webp"}, {"title": "On the Road", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Louis K.Meisel Gallery", "address": "Prince Street 141, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"On the Road\" is a group exhibition of paintings exploring American car culture and its impact on the nation's landscape. It is presented at Louis K. Meisel Gallery, whose artists include originators of Photorealism and contemporary Photorealists. The works show classic roadside motels, gas stations, diners and endless highways, with some paintings placing abandoned cars and desolate streets at their center. Others, by artists such as Tom Blackwell and Peter Maier, turn close-up views of vehicles' glossy surfaces and intricate machinery into semi-abstract compositions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/on-the-road-53645/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f743926d5db438bfc97b8bd24ccf8c621818f2e2c2272210db0e01e8736c7cd4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cinématique", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-23T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Ryan Lee Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 515, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "film"], "description": "Cinématique is an art exhibition at RYAN LEE Gallery pairing painter Gideon Rubin with two photo-based artists, Luis Baylón and Martine Gutierrez, with cinema as the frame through which they consider tone, composition, and mood. Rubin paints from old film stills and vintage photographs, often turning his figures away to explore memory, history, identity, and anonymity. Baylón was a Spanish street photographer who captured dramatic, filmic moments of everyday Madrid, shown here in New York for the first time, while Gutierrez creates staged self-portraits drawing on cinematic influences, including works never before exhibited. Gallery partner Jeffrey Lee brought the pairing together, noting that Baylón's observations and Gutierrez's constructions are bridged by Rubin's painting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cinematique-55478/", "official_url": "https://ryanleegallery.com/exhibitions/cinematique", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72c98f10e24419c4d7290269d9dd36fbacc909f9311fa14da19d1182461998b4-2000.webp"}, {"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"}]}