{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Clark Fox: Beyond Obedience", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-01-16T00:00:00-05:00", "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/painting/pop-art"], "description": "\"Clark Fox: Beyond Obedience\" is a major solo exhibition surveying nearly six decades of work by the American artist Clark V. Fox at Ethan Cohen Gallery's 251 W 19th Street location in Chelsea. Curated by Jane Livingston, it follows the artist's 2022 retrospective \"Subversion and Spectacle\" at the Station Museum in Houston. The show traces a practice that moves between abstraction, Pop art, political painting and cultural critique, including his Washington Color School beginnings, his \"architectural\" paintings, and his ongoing series of George Washington, still-life icons like the orange and pear, and the character Mr. Peanut. Fox's increasing focus in recent decades on his Cherokee and Powhatan heritage and Native American history runs through the exhibition, alongside satirical takes on contemporary culture and eccentric sculptural pieces. 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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"}, {"title": "Shelley Niro: In Her Lifetime", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Hales Gallery", "address": "West 20th Street 547, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "society/indigenous"], "description": "\"Shelley Niro: In Her Lifetime\" is a solo exhibition of photographic works at Hales Gallery, with an opening reception on the evening of 24 September. It features the work of Shelley Niro, a multi-disciplinary artist of the Turtle Clan of the Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) Nation from the Six Nations of the Grand River territory. Spanning several decades, the show explores memory, identity, and contemporary Indigenous life through image, text, and ornament, centering the series In Her Lifetime (1992) and For Fearless and Other Indians (1998). Humor is at the heart of Niro's practice, questioning colonial narratives and stereotypical depictions of Indigenous identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shelley-niro-in-her-lifetime-52967/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a151669a729fc5c60c0dd062f51e04799a1afcde9937cc8551e95bed02599888-2000.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": "https://store.aperture.org/collections/books", "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": "Turn the volume up!", "start": "2026-08-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-07-11T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/activism", "art"], "description": "Turn the volume up! is an exhibition of photographs, paintings, prints, sculpture, installation, and archival materials from the Nasher Museum's collection connected to social justice and community organizing. It examines how artists, activists, and everyday people have used their voices to challenge injustice, build communities, and shape public life. Organized by curator Xuxa Rodríguez with support from Julianne Miao, it is divided into five thematic sections: Remarks, Organize, Records, Dissents, and Petitions, and features artists such as Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Guerrilla Girls, and Sam Durant. The title references Zohran Mamdani's quotation of KRS-One's 2020 anthem after his election victory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/turn-the-volume-up-66539/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/467755ae83b551864485070858ee14458f7c3a82e63d1a08db0d01a82c48ba31-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Calida Rawles: Parallax", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lehmann Maupin", "address": "West 24th Street 501, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Calida Rawles: Parallax\" is an exhibition of new paintings at the Lehmann Maupin gallery in New York. The artist, Calida Rawles, known for merging hyperrealism with poetic abstraction, explores parallax: how changing one's point of view changes the way we see the same moment. The show centers on three paintings based on photographs she took of her youngest daughter in a pool, capturing the same moment from shifting positions and perspectives. Rawles situates Black subjects within fluid environments, using water to bring questions of identity, memory, healing, and belonging into focus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/calida-rawles-parallax-53541/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9882832e3b1c7f8d772755f1a48b0964a20fda3a5b0e97e7df64b0a44eb29760-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Catherine Opie: To Be Seen", "start": "2026-08-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Lehmann Maupin", "address": "West 24th Street 501, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Catherine Opie: To Be Seen is a museum exhibition of the American photographer's work, touring to Edinburgh from the National Portrait Gallery in London and curated in collaboration with the artist. It is Opie's first major museum exhibition in the UK and her first ever solo show in Scotland. Nearly 80 of her portraits hang beside portraits from Scotland's national collection, asking who portraits show, why and how. Her subjects include mentors and collaborators, queer communities, children, surfers, high school footballers, political crowds and the artist herself in self-portraits.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/catherine-opie-to-be-seen-66724/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce97405b1870c9081c9d814f5e1339df445e2d823bd9d6a255cb88122d5e98c4-2000.webp"}, {"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": "", "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": "Susan Sontag – Seeing and Being Seen", "start": "2026-06-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "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/exhibition", "literature"], "description": "An exhibition on the US-American author and critic Susan Sontag (1933–2004), a public intellectual who sparked controversial debates through her writings and nonconformist demeanor. It is a reprise and expansion of the show at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2025), curated by Dr. Kristina Jaspers and Dr. Birgit Bosold. Central to it are reflections on visibility, self-presentation, and representation, including a new section on Sontag's traces in Berlin and one on her influence on queer culture. It features works by Susan Sontag, Jack Smith, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Hujar, August Sander, Ingmar Bergman, The Supremes, and others, alongside new video interviews.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/susan-sontag-seeing-and-being-seen-66550/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1b0a6488106b1ae2af0dfb4d701609c1493f4237230411754c6341631f5e5a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Heart of the Matter", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-03T00:00:00-05:00", "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/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "The Heart of the Matter is an extensive retrospective of the work of artist Carrie Mae Weems, presented by C/O Berlin. Curated by Sarah Hermanson Meister and adapted by Boaz Levin, it gathers more than one hundred photographs and videos spanning four decades. The show examines power, memory, race, and femininity, from the Kitchen Table Series to recent works such as Preach and the video installation Leave Now!, linking personal experience with social and historical issues.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-heart-of-the-matter-66532/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cebf2fc7712661c98481fd72e7fdf71525daec1b46e51cf329babcc86127aaa-1200.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "Meet Me in the Forest", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.exploretock.com/cafesjian-art-trust-shoreview", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/forest", "art"], "description": "Meet Me in the Forest is an exhibition of twenty-one contemporary works spanning paintings, textiles, mixed-media, glass, ceramics, photography, and installations. It invites visitors into forests, gardens, and natural worlds artists create, exploring the layered relationships between nature and humankind, where beauty, danger, and humanity converge. The show draws on the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum's collection, new acquisitions, and loans, and features artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ebony G. Patterson, and Ana Mendieta. It is organized by the museum's curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and assistant curator of glass Linnea Seidling, with works lent in part by Gladstone Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meet-me-in-the-forest-66536/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2763fcf8351327839478296a6a7e22d803ecd970cbd9ecdca9cc7a400ef42460-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tony Cokes: Texts, Tracks, Talks (1992 – 2026)", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Greene Naftali Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://icavcu.org/shop-and-cafe/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art"], "description": "A survey exhibition of video works spanning 1992 to 2026 by the artist Tony Cokes, presented at the Greene Naftali Gallery. Curated by Amber Esseiva, it gathers past and newly commissioned pieces that explore artistic production, intent, and the formation of personal identity. Since the 1980s, Cokes has sampled and remixed fragments of the media landscape, layering found text over vibrant colors and dissonant soundtracks to surface latent ideologies of popular culture and confront structural racism, power, and visibility. Visitors should note the exhibition features flashing lights, loud repetitive sounds, and strobe effects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tony-cokes-texts-tracks-talks-1992-2026-66568/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f64052549f2e5f98368a7f82aec2b7e0154128c1b098957b8ec76e1ce7229ee-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": "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": "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": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/419", "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. It marks the centennial of Rauschenberg's birth and includes two of his Spread-series works, Ring Master and Recital, made in 1980, alongside additional pieces from The Glass House collection and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Jackson's new paintings draw on archival images of Jewel's Catch One, a Black lesbian-owned nightclub in Los Angeles that under owner Jewel Thais Williams offered a welcoming space, cultural programming, and social support to Black and queer communities. 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": "https://noky.io/images/2c0b81d8f9a61bb57fb80e26982dac0a990ad25905d592945aaff63948b28501-1200.webp"}]}