{"title": "Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime", "start": "2026-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://posterhouse.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "history/world-war"], "description": "\"Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime\" is an exhibition of book-related posters from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Germany printed during the World Wars. It is curated by Molly Manning, an author, historian, and associate professor of law at New York Law School, with exhibition design by Randee Ballinger. It shows how nations relied on public book donations and fundraising to supply soldiers with reading material, and how books became a symbol of freedom and democracy. It takes about 20 minutes to visit, is rated G, and is located in Poster House's Lower Level Hallways.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/reading-under-fire-arming-minds-hearts-during-wartime-54902/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b971fa932fa1133dadc5f147a4746deb60d7cceae7a72ae801556ad3c8448915-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://posterhouse.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works is an exhibition at Poster House about Native graphic art, shown in the Main Gallery and taking about an hour to see. It is curated by Brian Johnson of the Monacan Indian Nation, a designer and partner at Polymode, with exhibition design by Ola Baldych. Through works spanning nearly two centuries and representing over 60 tribes and nations, it celebrates Native designers as shapers of design, not merely its subjects, in resistance to colonial narratives. It is rated PG-13 for some racist and violent imagery and language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/designed-to-be-red-native-american-indigenous-poster-works-54899/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/047288f03a507764a0d5e4b7526ae189cbded1c6baa7e911fdfaab7025ed33bf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cuteness, Conservatism, & Consumption: Lefor-Openo and Postwar France", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://posterhouse.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster"], "description": "An exhibition of French posters from the decades after World War II, on view at Poster House in its Programs Gallery. Curated by Angelina Lippert, it centers on Lefor-Openo, a female design team whose twelve-year career is shown as a lens on midcentury French society, politics, and culture. While France rebuilt under Charles de Gaulle, advertising favored bright, optimistic, cute imagery over hints of turmoil, alongside male artists like Raymond Savignac and Hervé Morvan. The show takes about 40 minutes, is rated G, and is accompanied by the first English-language book dedicated to Lefor-Openo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cuteness-conservatism-consumption-lefor-openo-and-postwar-fr-54900/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0396ae97d042b43364a008c1f8f152241fb45fcbd7590b8f8bbba8ed61e4f3cd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country", "start": "2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/joy-reading-book-club", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/us"], "description": "\"Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country\" is an exhibition at the New York Society Library marking the United States' 250th anniversary. It explores how the library, founded twenty-two years before the Declaration of Independence, bore witness to the earliest days of the U.S. government, lending books to President Washington and serving as the first Library of Congress. On view are a first edition of Thomas Paine's \"Common Sense\", a 1776 New York newspaper chronicling the path to Independence, a first edition of the Federalist Papers, and books read by George Washington and other founding fathers. The exhibition is open daily in the Assunta, Ignazio, Ada and Romano Peluso Exhibition Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/collective-witness-a-library-for-a-young-country-56807/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db34d8ac8d84ad03a789dbd97df2e586cd0d52cc882f707a6611ff1aed9b3b34-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rally Reading Series: Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. Zhao, and Aurora Huiza", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pete's Candy Store", "address": "709 Lorimer St", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading evening of the Rally Reading Series with writers Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. Zhao, and Aurora Huiza. The series is themed \"Overtly Political Literature\" and gives a platform to underrepresented voices. After live readings, writers talk with the audience, who can ask questions and share thoughts. Readers also collectively suggest an actionable call, such as an organization to donate to or ways to confront injustice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rally-reading-series-kevin-nguyen-ey-zhao-and-aurora-huiza-54772/", "official_url": "https://www.rallyreadingseries.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/226c8e2824c45fda2e26adf58d053203a092cd9561ebc4d5b7c9975d16da416a-600.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": "From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)", "start": "2026-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://posterhouse.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "history/europe/czechoslovakia"], "description": "An exhibition of seldom-seen Czechoslovak travel posters from the First Republic era of 1918 to 1938. It was curated by Nicholas D. Lowry, a New York City born authority on vintage posters who is President of Swann Auction Galleries and known for his appearances on the PBS television series Antiques Roadshow, with exhibition design by Mihoshi Fukushima Clark. The show explores how artists, designers, and commercial studios used travel posters as vehicles for soft power, presenting the new country formed after the Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved as a land of opportunity, beauty, and progress. It is on view in the Entry Foyer, takes about 10 minutes to see, is rated G, and is held in conjunction with a related show at the Czech Center New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/from-monarchy-to-modernity-travel-identity-the-czechoslovak-54901/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e511eadadbefbb19493537287300fb7c2c0d1f924aca83d642d3902692f76480-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Know-How for a New Era: City Living/City Learning, circa 1400-1550: Opening Reception", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "Hunter College", "address": "Park Avenue 695, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/middle-ages"], "description": "An opening reception for the exhibition Know-How for a New Era: City Living/City Learning, circa 1400-1550. The Hunter College Art Galleries present the show, curated by Cynthia Hahn and Nina Rowe with Harper Montgomery and Hunter and CUNY Grad students. It brings together over fifty illustrated books, images, and objects capturing city living and intellectual life in northern Europe between roughly 1400 and 1550, focused on illuminated manuscripts and printed books commissioned by the newly rich. Lenders include The Morgan Library and Museum, The New York Public Library, Princeton University Library, and Les Enluminures Gallery, among others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/know-how-for-a-new-era-city-livingcity-learning-circa-1400-1-53095/", "official_url": "https://huntercollegeart.com/2026/09/22/know-how-for-a-new-era-city-living-city-learning-circa-1400-1550-opening-reception-thursday-october-29-6-8pm/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/125315289faecfdfc64e5e7d115c8e1e87cbba8a2d2f594d5516906bea934e09-600.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"}]}