{"title": "Wangechi Mutu", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Lenfest Center for the Arts", "address": "West 130th Street;West 129th Street 615, 10027 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.leapevents.com/event/wangechi-mutu/pre-sale", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Wangechi Mutu, a visual artist based in Nairobi and Brooklyn, presents recent work spanning film, sculpture, and installation from the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Her talk is part of Speak Now, a new speaker series at Columbia University School of the Arts featuring artists whose work reaches a broad public. Rachel Grace Newman, Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, gives a response, and Sarah Cole, Dean of the School of the Arts, introduces the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/wangechi-mutu-52818/", "official_url": "https://www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/fall-2026-events/speak-now-wangechi-mutu", "image": "https://noky.io/images/928aa1b9a39f477d7ac7eee4c61f9970f91e97fe8bbd1215f9925f6cd86b4cba-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Lenfest Center for the Arts", "address": "West 130th Street;West 129th Street 615, 10027 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Artist Talk", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "An artist talk at Cooper Union, where the Fall 2026 Henry Wolf Chair in Photography is joined by a curator to discuss his practice as an artist and critic. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, a British/Ugandan artist and writer, speaks with Phil Taylor, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum. Their conversation centers on the role of order in the context of his work. Registration is required, but a ticket does not guarantee entry as the free event is first-come-first-served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa-henry-wolf-chair-in-photography-art-75366/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/stanley-wolukau-wanambwa-henry-wolf-chair-photography-artist-talk", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4083d4c3659e03add642e56325a2ca028e06b174cef1099ee523ca4a4e543f8f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "New Social Environment: SR Lejeune & Joshua Chee Sanford", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An online conversation in The Brooklyn Rail's talk series, held via Zoom. Artist SR Lejeune speaks with Rail contributor Joshua Chee Sanford, a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. The talk accompanies Lejeune's exhibition \"Hold me up,\" on view at HESSE FLATOW through December 5, 2026. 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It was created by artist Shu Lea Cheang with eight intergenerational performers in Tucson, Arizona, whose own experiences and dreams of trans and gender nonconforming life in today's United States shaped the collaboratively scripted film. The work moves between physical and virtual space, honoring Cheang's late collaborator, musician Aérea Negrot, whose 2011 track \"It's Lover, Love\" is triggered as visitors shift the screens. Curated by Stamatina Gregory, the installation invites viewers to navigate agency, survival, and intimacy in a time of escalating political precarity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shu-lea-cheang-lover-love-53560/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/320422965381a7872e5895e88d85060ad4c8d0d023182624c361a38b993574ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In Conversation: Derek Fordjour and Katy Siegel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "The FLAG Art Foundation", "address": "West 25th Street 545, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "The artist Derek Fordjour sits down for a public conversation with Katy Siegel, a professor and curator at Stony Brook University. The talk marks the exhibition 'Spotlight: Derek Fordjour', which features a new work by the artist alongside a commissioned text by journalist and author Donovan X. Ramsey. The conversation is part of the Foundation's Spotlight series, pairing new artworks with commissioned writing to create dialogues between visual art and authors, critics, and scholars. The discussion starts half an hour after the event opens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour-and-katy-siegel-56577/", "official_url": "https://www.flagartfoundation.org/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a335b845ec19f51ba3b214373e0d6bad4099accd0385f0fcf4a70189effe431f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Message from the Mud", "start": "2026-05-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00-05:00", "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/installation"], "description": "Anicka Yi: Message from the Mud is an exhibition running from May 17 to November 9, 2026, presenting the artist's first large-scale outdoor installation. Anicka Yi, an American artist born in South Korea in 1971, arranges the work like an archaeological dig, inviting viewers to engage with deep geological time and evolutionary history through what she calls \"prehistoric biofiction.\" Rising from a shallow pool at the center of the excavated site are acrylic columns filled with soil-and-water cultures, made using a technique invented by ecologist Sergei Winogradsky, in which algae, cyanobacteria, and microbial colonies emerge in colorful layers visible through the clear surfaces. The installation is organized by Nora Lawrence and Adela Goldsmith.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/message-from-the-mud-52826/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e4a1d18d63269ae91b13f59f6130d5e625a4e59a85948f82b3787dd9d1dd1df-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sophie Pickering's and Hyunju Kim's artist talk", "start": "2026-11-01T16:40:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-01T17:40:00-05:00", "place": "440 Gallery", "address": "440 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Sophie Pickering's and Hyunju Kim's artist talk is an online event held via Zoom, with registration required. The talk brings together artists Sophie Pickering and Hyunju Kim and runs for an hour. It is hosted by 440 Gallery in Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sophie-pickerings-and-hyunju-kims-artist-talk-50785/", "official_url": "https://440gallery.com/new-events/2026/11/1/sophie-pickerings-and-hyunju-kims-artist-talk", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a2427eb19df90f00f2bd773e793e4bca9d84d13d66ad116ec2b68d17b60fa6cb-1200.webp"}]}