{"title": "Victoria Johnson, Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$15/$10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/19th-century"], "description": "An evening lecture and book talk, open to the public in the Members' Room and online, presented by The New York Society Library. Writer and Hunter College professor Victoria Johnson presents her new biography of the 19th-century American painter Frederic Church, published on the artist's bicentennial. Drawing on Church's letters, sketches, diaries, and travels to places like Egypt, the Andes, and Jerusalem, she shows how his landscapes of remote lands and seas put American art on the map of world culture. Church, a founder of New York's first great museum, the Met, is portrayed as an adventurer who turned landscape painting into a portrait of a nation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/victoria-johnson-glorious-country-how-the-artist-frederic-ch-79669/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/victoria-johnson-glorious-country-frederic-church", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a123ddd3863fc51776c6e0cde1f97574bcbef69ca36d1787d1313444cf9ae859-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Beyond the Landscape: Victoria Johnson on Glorious Country and the World of Frederic Church", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "$20 Adult, $10 Museum Member, $12 Educator, Senior, Student, Visitors with Disabilities", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/biography"], "description": "An illustrated evening talk at Cooper Hewitt's lecture room, with a welcome and an optional audience Q&A. Victoria Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and professor at Hunter College, speaks on the life of the artist Frederic Church, whose footsteps she followed around the globe for her new biography, Glorious Country. She tells how Church's curiosity, bravery, and passion for nature drove him to explore the world, and how his acclaimed, blockbuster paintings persuaded skeptical critics that the \"New World\" could produce towering artists, bringing the world to America and America to the world. The program is part of Frederic Church in Jamaica, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation and others.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beyond-the-landscape-victoria-johnson-on-glorious-country-an-52200/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/beyond-the-landscape-victoria-johnson-on-glorious-country-and-the-world-of-frederic-church-11-12-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4ed1ea7816c4a4b6f7a2c2b9fcb8f2691f62b34749c7ee55f29ab8c390b4cb66-2000.webp"}, {"title": "OLANA: Frederic Church's Vision of Art and Landscape", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Rizzoli", "address": "Broadway 1133, 10010", "price": "", "price_from": "65.00", "price_to": "65.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/landscape-painting", "nature/landscape"], "description": "A book event at Rizzoli Bookstore celebrating the new volume \"OLANA: Frederic Church's Vision of Art and Landscape\", a survey of how artist Frederic Church's vision transformed the Hudson Valley landscape. Sean E. Sawyer, President of The Olana Partnership, and Thomas L. Woltz, Principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, will be in conversation with freelance design journalist Ian Volner, followed by a booksigning. The book, published for the 2026 bicentennial of Church's birth, showcases his artist-designed home and 250-acre landscape overlooking the Hudson River, blending art, architecture, and panoramic scenery. It features Church's paintings, newly commissioned photography of Olana's Persian-inspired architecture and curving carriage roads, and the revival of Church's living landscape through replanting native species.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/olana-frederic-churchs-vision-of-art-and-landscape-113329/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1159de0dfdfeb7f66f16139fedfeb764b2bf6381a560a338c2434dad54f9c16c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Drop-in Sketching in the Galleries", "start": "2026-11-13T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-13T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Free with museum admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A drop-in sketching session held in the museum's galleries, open to all with no drawing experience required. Participants sketch within the Frederic Church in Jamaica exhibition, which explores the painter's sketches of the Jamaican landscape from his 1865 journey to the island. Drawing prompts, seating, and materials are provided, and space is limited on a first come, first served basis. The session takes place in the Conservatory on the second floor of Cooper Hewitt, a fully wheelchair accessible space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/drop-in-sketching-in-the-galleries-52201/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/drop-in-sketching-in-the-galleries-11-13-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15532423ffd1e901bb9c1d3f0014a5eb6942313a8e8d85be4e7a2ebc491e47c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "James Hyde, “The Trouble with Space in Painting”", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A talk in which painter James Hyde discusses his new book, The Trouble with Space in Painting: A Critical History, presented by the SVA Honors Program and BFA Visual and Critical Studies. The book is described as the first critical study of pictorial space as a modern historical construction, developing in philosophy, mathematics, science and theories of art. Hyde is an American painter who has worked in New York City since the late 1970s, with works in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Brooklyn Museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/james-hyde-the-trouble-with-space-in-painting-55737/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/james-hyde-the-trouble-with-space-in-painting", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10e705a437c1867d899d9444e34c8d71b4928a2c16db6290179f9d0550e80aa6-1200.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, "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": "Tour the Building with a Docent, November (2-4 PM on the half hour)", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; drop in", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/new-york", "literature/libraries"], "description": "Join a docent-led tour that steps out of the city's hustle and into history, exploring the gallery and the architectural wonders of the Library's landmark 1917 building. The New York Society Library hosts these tours in connection with its exhibition 'Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country,' which celebrates the United States' 250th anniversary and explores how a public library and a nascent democracy converged in New York City. Tours begin at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 PM, and visitors meet their docent guide in the first-floor public Reference Room, to the right as they enter. The event is free of charge and open to the public on a drop-in basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-the-building-with-a-docent-november-2-4-pm-on-the-half-105144/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/tour-building-docent-november-2-4-pm-half-hour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c4561d354af77449b1ec93f426289ca85eaec9df4cdcc39b3a0ec29cc2a835f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-10T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/outsider-art"], "description": "The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on view on Floor 8. It presents the visionary work of Minnie Evans (1892–1987), who began drawing in 1935 after the death of her grandmother, inspired by vivid dreams and visions. Over the following decades she made hundreds of radiant pencil and crayon drawings, oil paintings, and collages combining imagery from her Afro-Caribbean heritage, mythology, religion, popular culture, decorative arts, and the natural environment of her native Wilmington, North Carolina. Her dense, kaleidoscopic compositions of angels, mythical creatures, and watchful faces imagine a protective, spiritual province before the biblical flood—what she called the \"lost world.\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-lost-world-the-art-of-minnie-evans-67471/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f765fe3cdfb32450ffc3fafd6d4be3439f5eac5c5f37de10c6a192e79447ea1b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Empire City: Discover New York City's Hidden History + Tea Tasting", "start": "2026-11-09T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["food-drink/tea", "history/new-york"], "description": "A museum tour with a historically-inspired tea tasting at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, marking the 200th anniversary of the hotel's opening. The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden presents this event about the rise of New York City driven largely by the Erie Canal, opened in October 1825, which made day hotels like the Mount Vernon Hotel flourish. The tour highlights the new exhibition The Empire City Begins and explains the canal's impact on travel and trade. Afterwards, guests step into the Tavern for a tea talk with four to five teas inspired by what would have been served at the Mount Vernon Hotel, plus light refreshments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-tea-t-54015/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/the-empire-city-discover-new-york-citys-hidden-history-tea-tasting/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01f647f5502dc216d91fab38ab371b14afe169138cb56efc39f9c91055beb93a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "$15/$10", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/decorative-arts", "history/gilded-age"], "description": "A lecture by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, held in the Members' Room and online at The New York Society Library. She presents her new book 'Designing the Gilded Age', the catalog for an exhibition opening at The Met in mid-October and closing in early February. The book presents 150 rarely seen design drawings from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany, revealing the artistry behind his iconic stained-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, and interiors. It also highlights the contributions of other designers, including women and immigrants, whose identities have been subsumed under the Tiffany name.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/alice-cooney-frelinghuysen-designing-the-gilded-age-drawings-79656/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/louis-comfort-tiffany-design-drawings", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19d26317a388bbcbaac2357ecaec04016d9dc67604ead147d435b0ff65542d61-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Charles Burchfield: Elemental", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/watercolor", "nature"], "description": "Charles Burchfield: Elemental is an exhibition of watercolors at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It presents works by Charles Burchfield (1893–1967), who over five decades painted what he called the \"tremendous force of nature.\" Drawn from the Whitney's collection, the show includes early landscapes, meditations on the sky, and monumental \"reconstructions\" that reflect his reverence for the elemental forces and cycles of the natural world. Organized by curatorial assistant Caroline Webb, the exhibition is part of an ongoing initiative to present rarely seen works from the museum's collection and is on view on Floor 7 through Spring 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/charles-burchfield-elemental-67469/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9b4398db2d77dbd63763a4bd668deaea9eb2dd9e4a35ddfed32538ccb83f9c3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NEW Movie: America the Beautiful", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-25T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Hall of Science", "address": "111th Street 47-01, 11368", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "nature/landscape"], "description": "The New York Hall of Science is screening the film America the Beautiful, which takes viewers on a breathtaking journey across America's natural landscapes, from towering mountains and vast deserts to flowing rivers and open plains. Narrated by Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer, it celebrates the country's natural beauty and the importance of protecting it for future generations. It runs from November 11 through November 25, screening daily at 11:00am, 1:30pm, and 3:30pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-movie-america-the-beautiful-124705/", "official_url": "https://nysci.org/nysci-events/america-the-beautiful", "image": ""}, {"title": "Family Program | Botanical Prints", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Free with museum admission", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["science/biology/botany", "diy/printmaking"], "description": "Family Program | Botanical Prints is a drop-in hands-on workshop at Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where youth ages 5–12 and their adult guardians create botanical prints using gel plates. It is part of the museum's monthly second-Saturday family activities and is inspired by the exhibition Frederic Church in Jamaica, whose botanical sketches made on treks through Jamaica's landscape will be on view. A museum educator guides participants as they use ferns and other botanical pressings to make prints capturing the details of nature; no experience is necessary and all materials are provided. The program is included with museum admission, youth 18 and under are always free, and registration is not required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/family-program-botanical-prints-52202/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/family-program-botanical-prints-11-14-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f8528b50a2390433981e8bf089e447b0be0aade8c1b5754211d3b482fb44c174-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Noguchi Talks: Alanna Heiss and Martin Puryear – Two American Sculptors in the Venice Biennale", "start": "2026-11-18T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Noguchi Museum", "address": "33rd Road 9-01, 11106 Long Island City", "price": "Free; Reservation required (space is limited)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "A free public conversation at The Noguchi Museum marking the 40th anniversary of Isamu Noguchi's 1986 presentation in the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. It brings together Alanna Heiss, who commissioned Noguchi's exhibition What Is Sculpture?, and sculptor Martin Puryear, who represented the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale with Liberty/Libertà. Moderated by Hitomi Iwasaki, the discussion considers what it means to represent America on an international stage and how artists' cultural backgrounds, racial identities, and personal histories inform that question. It is presented alongside the museum's exhibitions Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale and No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75; space is limited and reservations are required by email.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/noguchi-talks-alanna-heiss-and-martin-puryear-two-american-s-108000/", "official_url": "https://www.noguchi.org/museum/calendar/event/2026-11-18-1800-noguchi-talksalanna-heiss-and-martin-puryeartwo-american-sculptors-in-the-venice-biennale/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee96e8d41fed77dd593df824574ab9c0ca11e351a8cc32d4c2b17ca8e73cd4bc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Grand Exhibition of Classical and Historical Fencing", "start": "2026-11-15T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "Saint Ann's and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church", "address": "Montague Street 157, 11201", "price": "$10 – $15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/gilded-age", "sport/martial-arts"], "description": "The Grand Exhibition of Classical and Historical Fencing is an exhibition of cultural artifacts paired with live demonstrations of fencing and a talk of anecdotes from important fencing events. It takes the audience back to the Gilded Age in New York City, when the Brooklyn Bridge first opened, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled, the Waldorf Astoria and Carnegie Hall opened, and the New York Public Library was founded, and wealthy families such as the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers shaped the city's growth, making fencing a fashionable pastime. It looks at the equipment of the era, such as foils, gloves, masks, and jackets sold at stores like Peck and Snyder, Spalding, and J.H. Lau & Co., and at how growing interest in sports for health led many women to take up the art and science. The public is cordially invited to attend, and doors open at 2:15pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/grand-exhibition-of-classical-and-historical-fencing-55512/", "official_url": "https://www.stannholytrinity.org/event/grand-exhibition-of-classical-and-historical-fencing/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ace91bd56501400bd6cb9484d05ed28624a0cce69420900d860643617567c7e7-2000.webp"}]}