{"title": "Tools of Worship", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Petzel Gallery", "address": "West 25th Street 520, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "\"Tools of Worship\" is a solo exhibition by artist Tschabalala Self at Petzel Gallery, her first with the gallery and her first New York gallery show since 2020. It brings together new paintings and her first sculptural works in concrete, continuing her investigation of the human figure as both object and site of exchange through which meaning, desire, memory, and belief circulate. Her figures are built from found and repurposed textiles and conceived as characters in a theatrical world, with identity treated as a mutable material rather than a fixed fact. The exhibition proposes that both art and the human body are conduits of reverence and projection, asking what it means to encounter an artwork as something alive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tools-of-worship-54873/", "official_url": "https://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/tschabalala-self2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec7976b783d16ef6dc012788b61e39618872e838fca6043fbddf8ac064673dac-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Petzel Gallery", "address": "West 25th Street 520, 10001 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Like everything alive that we try to hold forever", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pratt Manhattan Gallery", "address": "144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art"], "description": "\"Like everything alive that we try to hold forever\" is an art exhibition at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, an exhibition space on 14th Street in New York City. Curated by Elizabeth Diggon, Naomi Potter, and Shauna Thompson, it brings together seven artists: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Diane Borsato, Stephanie Dinkins, Bridget Moser, Sondra Perry, and Miya Turnbull. The works explore how human bodies exist in relation to non-human objects and how the collection, consumption, and contextualization of these objects shape our understanding of self and others. Organized by Esker Foundation and toured by Independent Curators International, the show uses objects and avatars to examine the identities and biases embedded in science, technology, and museum collections.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/like-everything-alive-that-we-try-to-hold-forever-54997/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb835cb6ffe02570170039fe74401004b5970d28503aee9cbd9af624de5a7826-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Shuling Guo: Temple II", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hollis Taggart Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 521, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "Temple II is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Shuling Guo, with an opening reception on the evening of October 15. The Philadelphia-based artist brings together the female body, botanical forms, and devotional imagery in work shaped by motherhood, memory, and loss. Created after the birth of her daughter and the death of her grandmother, the paintings return to the temple imagery and folk traditions of her childhood in Chaoshan, China, and the show debuts her first mural, conceived as part of the gallery's transformation into a sacred space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shuling-guo-temple-ii-53037/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab84b066ff08b5ea0584f7d20121e2425e1e4fa4c50bbc96d4cced47d4ecc7d8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Michaela Yearwood-Dan | A Woman of Will", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Marianne Boesky Gallery", "address": "West 24th Street 509, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting", "religion/christian/catholic"], "description": "A Woman of Will is an exhibition of new paintings by Michaela Yearwood-Dan at Boesky Gallery, her third solo show there. The gallery becomes a sanctuary evoking the atmosphere of a cathedral, with 13 small paintings, large lush abstractions in cobalt, gold and maroon, ceramic vases with dried flowers, and tiled wood benches made with Theodore Vass serving as pews. Drawing on her convent school years and a feminist rereading of biblical texts, Yearwood-Dan reimagines Catholic aesthetics, embedding words from pop stars like Britney Spears and Nina Simone into the paintings. The title comes from a poem by Victoria Adukwei Bulley, and the show builds a space for the practice of agape, the love bell hooks writes leads toward liberation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/michaela-yearwood-dan-a-woman-of-will-53789/", "official_url": "https://marianneboeskygallery.com/exhibitions/349-michaela-yearwood-dan-a-woman-of-will/press_release_text/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72d77fc1059c43e20c692059d0218c455b8b10e7fd7220172e0dcb6718747112-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art is for the Spirit — Records of the Self", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Paula Cooper Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 534, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "\"Art is for the Spirit: Records of the Self\" is a group exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery at 521 West 21st Street, with an opening reception on October 29 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Organized by Ivy Shapiro, it brings together work by Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Kazuko Miyamoto, Ree Morton, Elizabeth Murray, and Joel Shapiro. The exhibition explores the home and autobiography as tools for grounding the self, and underlines the interrelated lives of Paula Cooper, her artists and their families in the New York art world of the 1970s and beyond. Anchored in Shapiro's memories of her childhood, it includes works such as Shapiro's fingerprint drawings and house sculptures, Bartlett's dotted paintings, Gober's dollhouses, Hammons's body prints, Miyamoto's woven forms, and Morton's narrative drawings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-is-for-the-spirit-records-of-the-self-54711/", "official_url": "https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/art-is-for-the-spirit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/054bdf41112d04a83d40f74e756641aa1a4e326cc5b2f0da1f788dbb604fe138-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kang Seung Lee", "start": "2026-06-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00-05:00", "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/media-art/video-art"], "description": "Kang Seung Lee appears in \"Self\", a group exhibition of video artworks on view from June 12 to November 29, 2026. The show, presented by Artpace San Antonio in Texas, brings together alumni of Artpace's International Artist-in-Residence program. Each video explores the notion of selfhood, showing how artists accept their natural selves or nurture constructed ones. The exhibition revisits four artists whose works describe something present in everyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kang-seung-lee-66134/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9113e7727bfb454825ade66adc42ff3173c4047e91767eb5caf2f5b839f3ce8b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Transit of Venus", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Petzel Gallery", "address": "West 25th Street 520, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Petzel Gallery presents the exhibition \"Transit of Venus\", a show of new paintings by Emily Mae Smith at its space at 520 West 25th Street. It is Smith's second solo exhibition at the gallery and follows her 2024 survey at the Magritte Museum in Brussels. Her hybrid figures and symbolic objects, among them her anthropomorphic broomstick, grapes, eyeballs and open-mouthed frames, take on forms that are part human, animal and plant, trickster-like figures that resist fixed identity and the frameworks binding labor to class and gender. Built through layered transparent washes and glazes, the paintings draw on her surroundings and on the vernacular of art made in periods of upheaval, such as the agricultural imagery of Jean-François Millet, while its title alludes to the astronomical phenomenon, the female body in painting and the goddess Venus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/transit-of-venus-54870/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ad573a94232d849eadaac71d98d956a82a405b09b5c4f8fa929b356b1d4cc05-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Adam Putnam: Deity", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "PPOW", "address": "Broadway 392", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Deity is Adam Putnam's fifth solo exhibition with P·P·O·W, an arrangement of sculptures and other improbable objects. At its center stands a mysterious octagonal reservoir of water set in a hexagonal tile floor made from earth surrounding the artist's Maine studio, referencing ancient Greek oracles. Discarded tree branches, washed ashore along coastlines from around the world, are carved into the forms of human limbs, alongside newly printed photographs and small-scale structures. Through photography, drawing, sculpture, film, installation, and performance, Putnam explores the shifting boundaries between architecture and nature, and the mundane and the transcendent.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adam-putnam-deity-54924/", "official_url": "https://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibitions/adam-putnam5", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1c4782d53864c3a54e374b2951effe21b21481c4799d11c0b98dd6b0bf8348b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jaume Plensa: Remote, Serene, Ethereal", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Galerie Lelong & Co.", "address": "West 26th Street 528, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "An art exhibition featuring three tall painted-bronze portrait sculptures alongside large charcoal drawings made directly on the gallery walls. The works are by Jaume Plensa, co-presented by GRAY and Galerie Lelong. The portraits—Remote (Yolandita), Serene (Ita), and Ethereal (Martina)—explore the space between the universal and the individual, drawing on figures from Plensa's community in Barcelona. A public reception with the artist opens the show.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jaume-plensa-remote-serene-ethereal-52804/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91d7ff31fe0083874bf0e52e8bf135d48ec4cc16cd3c2b063f379eb7a109b394-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Soft Spaces: Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://shopleslielohman.org/products/public-displays-of-affection?variant=49391245394157", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/queer"], "description": "\"Soft Spaces: Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu\" is an exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, part of a series of installations featuring works by alumni of the museum's Fellowship. The edition on view is a two-person show by Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu, with the series curated by Chloe Ming, Assistant Curator / Exhibitions Manager. The \"softness\" of the title reflects the artists' experience of queer-centered spaces as providing safety in process, experimentation, and vulnerability. Across the series, more than three dozen artists present digital and media art, painting, photography, filmmaking, performance, and installation, responding to the ever-changing landscape of LGBTQIA+ experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/soft-spaces-heather-marie-scholl-and-eva-wu-53562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b37f7e8745d0bef77924193b190f99cb13d574e9baaeac3887be7bfa6e8d02ef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Tower", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Ortega y Gasset Projects", "address": "3rd Avenue 363, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "The Tower is a group exhibition at the art space Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, with an opening reception on its first evening. It is curated by Adam Liam Rose, the venue's co-director and an artist, and brings together work by some two dozen artists exploring the symbolic meanings of the tower, from aspiration toward the divine and the Tower of Babel to the Tarot card of upheaval and surveillance. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, ceramic, performance, video and photography, the artists consider how height relates to power, authority and transformation, including intimate and queer associations. The exhibition is activated by endurance performances in which Peter Cage is plastic wrapped to a sculpture by Nicholas Knight on Saturdays, and a digital catalog will follow at a closing event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-tower-54636/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/58af9d4035dd58e124125bde34d4b09f1b54ead64599387ccd5fe1f3d3dbcfe8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art", "start": "2026-09-26T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00-05:00", "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/contemporary"], "description": "A group exhibition of contemporary art titled \"In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art\". It is curated by Simone Krug and shows works including Julia Phillips's \"Veiled Purifier\", Sarah Lucas's \"Victoria\", Mona Hatoum's \"Silence\", Hugh Hayden's \"Start 'Em Young\" and Marlene Dumas's \"Kissing\", in media from ceramic, silk, bronze and marble to tights and kapok, laboratory glass tubes, chain link fencing and oil on canvas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-our-image-the-fragile-body-in-contemporary-art-66523/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9db3bbdf5f75cab506bca923b6d8d73fff5f0a49a8b5c8c6ac63fc9f374040ec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Adebunmi Gdadebo", "start": "2026-11-10T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An artist's talk in the Talks lecture series, free and open to the public, also accessible online via Zoom. It features Adebunmi Gdadebo, an artist who earned her BFA at the School of Visual Arts and lives and works in Philadelphia. Her multidisciplinary practice explores heritage through historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora, and soil hand-dug from the True Blue Plantation grounds in South Carolina, investigating the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adebunmi-gdadebo-67140/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/adebunmi-gdadebo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5e0eaacc1619d0a6b3d1e86c1e8456f7ed89189f42e0cdaf56a1ed703d42756-2000.webp"}]}