{"title": "Romanian Art After the Iron Curtain", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "Romanian Cultural Center", "address": "East 38th Street 200, 10016 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/history", "history"], "description": "An evening event marking the New York launches of three publications: \"Visual Arts in Romania 1945–1989: With an Addendum 1990–2020\" by Magda Cârneci, \"Zona Festival\" by Ileana Pintilie, and ARTA magazine's special double issue \"The American Dream\" (Nos. 78–79/2026), coordinated by Gabriela Mateescu and Charles Moore. It is presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York in collaboration with Nicodim Gallery. The evening explores the relationship between art, political power, and cultural transformation in Romania, from the communist era to the present, and the transatlantic exchanges that have shaped its international presence. It features a conversation with Magda Cârneci, Ileana Pintilie, Gabriela Mateescu, Irina Protopopescu, and Charles Moore at Nicodim Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/romanian-art-after-the-iron-curtain-55444/", "official_url": "https://www.rciusa.info/events/romanian-art-after-the-iron-curtain", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ddc630fadea691ae2b7c0700461459da99dc331d07bb83dbdb73e28133ac932-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "Romanian Cultural Center", "address": "East 38th Street 200, 10016 New York", "tickets": "sold_out"}], "similar": [{"title": "The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire", "start": "2026-10-30T09:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T16:30:00-04:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/early-modern"], "description": "A day-long conference titled \"The Venetian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire\" takes place at the School of Visual Arts' Amphitheater on the third floor of 209 East 23rd Street. It is presented by the school's Art History department, with support from a major grant of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Six leading scholars of art history and cultural studies deliver lectures on the dialogues between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, and on how visual and material culture expressed the complexities of their relationship. A special emphasis lies on how symbols of power in visual art changed as the two cultures provoked and inspired one another.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-venetian-renaissance-and-ottoman-empire-55729/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/the-venetian-renaissance-and-ottoman-sultanship", "image": ""}, {"title": "Robert Rauschenberg and Asia", "start": "2026-06-16T00:00:00-04:00", "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://ilhamgallery.com/gift-shop/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "The exhibition 'Robert Rauschenberg and Asia' surveys the American artist's engagement with Asia, showing works from the 1960s to 2008 across assemblage, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, photography and drawing. Organised by M+ in collaboration with ILHAM Gallery, with support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, it was curated by Russell Storer of M+ and co-curated by Rahel Joseph for ILHAM. It traces Rauschenberg's travels across the continent and his Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, a travelling exhibition that included five Asian cities between 1984 and 1991. The show forms part of the worldwide celebration of the artist's centennial in 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/robert-rauschenberg-and-asia-66548/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/078e93407583a595d28348b182a5fa9501ae9b36746f68ace737ee3221f4b736-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Radical Unpresent", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism"], "description": "This is the New York launch of the book The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World (MIT Press), taking the form of a conversation between its author, Gregory Sholette, and the artist and writer Naeem Mohaiemen. Sholette's book examines how artists navigate a collapse of historical time, tracing a rupture through Brexit, Trump, COVID, and the J6 Capitol attack, and arguing that MAGA acts as a \"retro-vanguard\" manufacturing its own imaginary past. Against this, he proposes the \"phantom archive,\" in which artists resist through repair and reenactment, from Belarus protest art to Michael Rakowitz's reconstruction of a destroyed Assyrian artifact. Mohaiemen, whose work on excavating institutional memory is featured in the book, joins for an evening on memory, resistance, and what remains unfinished.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-radical-unpresent-55021/", "official_url": "http://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2291", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a3977df7f7039555c697541f88f912ddf6e822803cc0839507acc201bfe0272-1200.webp"}]}