{"title": "Spotlight: Sam Mattax", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Fredericks & Freiser", "address": "West 24th Street 536, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "'Spotlight: Sam Mattax' is an exhibition at the Fredericks & Freiser gallery, showing three recent large-scale paintings. It is the first presentation in the gallery's new Spotlight series, conceived as a focused studio-visit-style view of an artist's work as it takes shape. The paintings by Sam Mattax are built through dragging, scraping, and rebuilding, and mark a shift in his practice as forms multiply. 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Both painters share a style built on simplified forms and an economy of means.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/henri-matisse-alex-katz-the-silence-of-painting-66513/", "official_url": "https://www.musee-matisse-nice.org/en/exposition/henri-matisse-alex-katz/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ed8754fae1b74d8b21bb9894dbc6215f75f6b6893a2026b2beccd48858243c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sandra Mazoy I Revelations | SoHo NY", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Space Gallery", "address": "Broome Street 428, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://spacegallerystbarth.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "Sandra Mazoy: Revelations is an opening reception for a solo show of works on paper and large-scale paintings. 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Her process begins with lines that form balanced compositions, with color added afterward to complete and transform each piece.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sandra-mazoy-i-revelations-soho-ny-56005/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/43ccbb2d06965bfc914a958c70c3760fd82a6aaba70579a5f33a97f92ab199ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Clever, Quick, Magnetic: The Art of Witty Banter", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://oklahomacontemporary.org/events/calendar/?date_filter=this_year&free_only=1&ticketed_only=1", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition of paintings exploring how works can feel connected even when they appear visually distinct, and whether a painting can possess something akin to a personality. It is presented by Oklahoma Contemporary and curated by David Salle, a painter who helped define the postmodern sensibility in painting. The show features works by artists including Amy Sillman, Joe Bradley, Cecily Brown, Josh Smith and Rosa Loy. 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The show brings together recent paintings by four female painters of the same generation — Candida Alvarez, Rochelle Feinstein, Carrie Moyer, and Amy Sillman — who have also spent decades as art school professors. It explores how abstraction can still address issues in aesthetics and politics, with the artists building their own visual languages grounded in their lived experience as gendered and political beings in American society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/carrie-moyer-66132/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0fa524bac35d43eb7bdd57e5bbe0af6d1c5a7dcfdadb4f024f156adaf38aad12-2000.webp"}, {"title": "To My Best Friend", "start": "2026-01-23T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Matthew Marks Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 523, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://my.icaboston.org/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/art-collection"], "description": "An exhibition of works from the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, presented in the Kim and Jim Pallotta Gallery. It draws on more than 50 artworks that longtime friends and supporters Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté helped bring into the ICA Collection, highlighting formal and material experimentation by artists including Laura Owens, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Olga de Amaral, and Sarah Sze, and is organized by Erika Umali, Curator of Collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/to-my-best-friend-66851/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19f2d15ba5c0054a69c0eafe188997f34a0400c9f78cbe41c5e6cf06db524c22-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Robert Swain Recent 5x5 Color Grid Paintings from 2026 and Smaller Studies from 2015 to 2020", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "David Richard Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://davidrichardgallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new 5x5 color grid paintings and smaller studies by Robert Swain at David Richard Gallery. The gallery presents it as Swain's ninth solo exhibition there, pairing recent large paintings on aluminum panel with acrylic studies on canvas from 2015 to 2020. His grid compositions use individual squares of one color each, with color itself as the content, exploring how adjacent hues blend in the viewer's perception. The presentation is part of a series focused on studies for his most important and experimental grid painting series of the past two decades.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/robert-swain-recent-5x5-color-grid-paintings-from-2026-and-s-52269/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Robin Feld: Captured Brushstroke", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Painting Center", "address": "West 27th Street 547, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-expressionism"], "description": "Captured Brushstroke is an exhibition of new collaged paintings by Robin Feld, showing works made between 2023 and 2026. Feld, a Brooklyn-based painter, has evolved from straightforward oil painting to a process using acrylic paint and collaged imagery printed on acetate. She remains close to her abstract expressionist roots, captivated by the geometry found in nature, with matte and glossy surfaces merging and patterns repositioned within the composition. The title work grew from a small watercolor done by a stream on Vancouver Island, its swirling linework blown up onto acetate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/robin-feld-captured-brushstroke-56828/", "official_url": "https://www.thepaintingcenter.org/robin-feld-captured-brushstroke", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c595f5e49641481ae638bf0224879e82134c3440c28c1a4fe313bbbb8795f3dc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jason Stopa | Open Window", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Morgan Lehman Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 526, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Jason Stopa | Open Window\" is an exhibition of ten new abstract oil paintings at Morgan Lehman Gallery, with an opening reception on the evening of the first day. The Brooklyn-based painter and writer Jason Stopa, in his second solo show with the gallery, makes paintings that treat the picture plane as a window, with frames, lattices, and interlocking forms that play on looking through and looking at. The works use thin gestural washes, a more subdued palette, and surfaces layered like ancient Greek ceramic glaze, alongside a yellow grid wall painting that carries the window idea into the gallery's architecture. The show engages with the vocabulary of Modernism and the interplay between viewer and object, revealing how sensory experience is both static and fugitive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jason-stopa-open-window-53968/", "official_url": "https://morganlehmangallery.com/exhibitions/211-jason-stopa-open-window/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cf02df28ba5ca73d8aacee3f35c042b61e5c31d8c585b6ade85d45df574514d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "AURA", "start": "2026-05-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "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/art-collection"], "description": "AURA is an exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery drawn entirely from the AMA Collection, bringing together works by artists including Ed Ruscha, Arthur Jafa, Charles Ray, Christopher Wool, Richard Serra, Laura Owens, and Jenny Saville. It places works and presences in relation, where art emerges as intensity, perception, and shared experience. A significant work by Ed Ruscha, conceived for AMA Venezia, bridges Venice, U.S.A. and Venezia, Italy. Visitors are invited to slow down and look closely, letting vision become a physical, emotional, and mental experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aura-66852/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0eaa44a19b1e7ed61838921f68b89524c23d71716cccf2d0865fbf7be013fab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Does This Taste Funny?", "start": "2026-09-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lehman College", "address": "Bedford Park Boulevard West 250, 10468 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "comedy/satire"], "description": "A two-venue group exhibition showing work by 40 contemporary artists, with an installment at the Lehman College Art Gallery. It is curated by Melissa Brown, who teaches in the Department of Art at Lehman College, CUNY, and John O'Connor, faculty in the Visual and Studio Arts Program at Sarah Lawrence College. Does This Taste Funny? explores humor in contemporary art as a way of shifting perception, with artists organized into six thematic groupings spanning the body, material absurdity, politics, language, art humor, and technology. Elizabeth Murray and Peter Saul are among the participating artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/does-this-taste-funny-52824/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/52c7c07adaf07d3a6596b0a971c4f5dccff00770f2833f87b88bc439d6525ccf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Annual Art Auction & Gala", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Flux Factory", "address": "29th Street 39-31", "price": "", "price_from": "80.52", "price_to": "80.52", "tickets_url": "https://pools.events/event/QA9F5ZKC/flux-factory/?i=HNn08TQi", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "community/fundraising", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "An evening art auction and gala with a DJ, catered open bar and a \"Halloween Hangover\" dress code, held at Flux Factory's newly renovated gallery Flux IV. The organization Flux Factory is behind it, honoring artist sTo Len and Materials for the Arts Executive Director Tara Sansone. The auction features works by Melissa Joseph, Saya Woolfalk, Mary Mattingly, Ivan Argote and Flux alumni, with online bids opening November 1. Celebrating 20 years of Flux auctions, it raises support for the Artist Residency and Exhibition programs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/annual-art-auction-gala-52663/", "official_url": "https://www.fluxfactory.org/event/2026-gala/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bd3c7e237eb962a6a01d489e5fc94a52faedcd8ce602f4ff75fca8322fee6e51-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Scott Lyall: REDS (opening)", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Miguel Abreu Gallery", "address": "Orchard Street 36, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An art exhibition titled REDS showing new work by the artist Scott Lyall. The show centers on a large inkjet print on aluminum composite board. It runs at Miguel Abreu Gallery on the Lower East Side. The gallery hosts it across two of its New York spaces.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/scott-lyall-reds-opening-53953/", "official_url": "https://miguelabreugallery.com/exhibitions/reds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0fa6a6b270db9fdc7c0388dcfd1733049476da4e02f7e74669b6d0fbc7d1ce8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "New Openings Against Old Surfaces: On Gordon Matta-Clark’s Walls Paper", "start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00-05:00", "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": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "New Openings Against Old Surfaces: On Gordon Matta-Clark’s Walls Paper is an exhibition at Printed Matter, Inc., the first devoted to the publishing output of artist Gordon Matta-Clark, with a focus on his 1973 project Walls Paper. It is curated by Keith Gray and Hannah Marshall for Printed Matter, organized with the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and presented as part of Printed Matter's 50th Anniversary programming. The show examines the 1973 Buffalo Press publication, which gathers photographs of crumbling interior walls of half-demolished tenement buildings in the South Bronx and Lower East Side, overprinted with hazy neons and bisected to form two booklets in one. On view are archival materials including documentary photos, test prints, uncut printer sheets, a hand-cut notebook, and the layout for the never-realized proposal Quadrille, alongside two newly-created commissions from contemporary artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-openings-against-old-surfaces-on-gordon-matta-clarks-wal-55025/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/54a6b1f152939cc34ee8a28b2200970abfca7c92dfc874b32be4aa4b62ecfdd4-2000.webp"}]}