{"title": "We Can’t Dream Alone", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "nature/climate"], "description": "\"We Can't Dream Alone\" is an outdoor exhibit of four large-scale reproductions of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Madjeen Isaac, installed along the Washington Avenue perimeter of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is presented by the Climate Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Combining experiences from her homeland of Haiti and her upbringing in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Isaac explores how collective care, memory, and ecological knowledge are crucial to building a more just future. Her lush urban environments invite viewers to consider how relationships to place and community make us more resilient to personal adversities, social injustice, and climate change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/we-cant-dream-alone-51528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70d11ab6a4a07e86689b012238344a8772a6837ca0ae172be5094258be60eeb7-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Meet Me in the Forest", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.exploretock.com/cafesjian-art-trust-shoreview", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/forest", "art"], "description": "Meet Me in the Forest is an exhibition of twenty-one contemporary works spanning paintings, textiles, mixed-media, glass, ceramics, photography, and installations. It invites visitors into forests, gardens, and natural worlds artists create, exploring the layered relationships between nature and humankind, where beauty, danger, and humanity converge. The show draws on the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum's collection, new acquisitions, and loans, and features artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ebony G. Patterson, and Ana Mendieta. It is organized by the museum's curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and assistant curator of glass Linnea Seidling, with works lent in part by Gladstone Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meet-me-in-the-forest-66536/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2763fcf8351327839478296a6a7e22d803ecd970cbd9ecdca9cc7a400ef42460-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Saya Woolfalk: The WoodsWoman Method", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "nature"], "description": "An exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, on view as the first chapter of a multi-year initiative, showing process materials from a new commission alongside related works from the Museum's permanent collection. It centers on artist Saya Woolfalk's WoodsWoman, a mythic botanist-healer who inhabits her 'Empathic Universe,' an imagined utopian future in which humans and nature exist in harmony. Woolfalk applied this lens to the Museum's holding of nearly 2,000 objects, selecting works by artists such as Huma Bhabha, Robert Blackburn, Abigail DeVille, and Martin Wong that explore the cosmos, human-nature relationships, speculative worlds, and collective storytelling. The exhibition, curated in collaboration with Eileen Jeng Lynch, also works as a laboratory, with programming that invites audiences into Woolfalk's creative process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/saya-woolfalk-the-woodswoman-method-51514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71be0b1d8b81334cfebdbdd189b8fae5495167971002e32f2c8e8f51c576e304-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fall Residency Exhibition: Artist Talks & Reception", "start": "2026-11-07T07:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Building 9, Nolan Park", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The Institute for Public Architecture marks the culmination of its 2026 Fall Independent Project Residency with a full house activation on Governors Island, featuring work by Beth Ferguson, Tosin Omolola, Gabriel Gonzalez Depalo, Really Not Really (Stephanie Lee Yeung and Hermano Luz Rodrigues), Susan Isawi, and Visiting Fellow Massimiliano Malagò. The day includes public viewing hours, a performance lecture by Gabriel Gonzalez Depalo titled Pagqank Is Burning, artist talks beginning with welcome remarks by residency director Deborah Garcia, and a closing reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception-52856/", "official_url": "https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/events/fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5b8b2b1a05a3eba02d59f7261c0180e59338b404cdcd3f73eab134896f1685b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bethany Collins", "start": "2026-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-03-14T00:00:00-05:00", "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/contemporary", "society/politics"], "description": "Bethany Collins takes part in the group exhibition \"We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment\" at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The exhibition fills the museum's main galleries and is organized around five topics: civics, history, family and kinship, map-making, and care for the environment. Its title quotes \"Bless this Land,\" a 2019 poem by former US poet laureate and Indigenous activist Joy Harjo, an important influence on the show. Guided by American democratic ideals of participation and experimentation, it invites visitors to consider their own role in conversations about the past and future of the United States, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bethany-collins-66128/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba7f3513fe9acec48cf83a6c0a0478436c1e83edf85250da286ffd6ceeab0424-1200.webp"}, {"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": "Stephanie Dinkins: Anchoring Home Member's Preview", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Staten Island Museum", "address": "10301", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "A members-only preview of the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: Anchoring Home. The Staten Island Museum presents a solo show of transdisciplinary artist and educator Stephanie Dinkins, who grew up in Tottenville, Staten Island, and returns home to present her signature work. The participatory, sensory exhibition uses AI-generated processing of collected stories to create a living narrative evolving in real time, asking who gets to shape the future of AI and how we might co-create systems rooted in equity, care, and collective agency. Registration is by invitation only; contact the Development Office to become a member.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/stephanie-dinkins-anchoring-home-members-preview-56057/", "official_url": "https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/event/stephanie-dinkins-anchoring-home-members-preview/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/112f8bac3f883955e791c50bd07beec42331e5ea0b02ee46b3249cda1384741e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Meeson Pae: Seed Memory", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Anat Egbi", "address": "Broadway 372, 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Seed Memory\" is an exhibition of new oil paintings and sculptures by Meeson Pae, on view at 372 Broadway, with an opening reception from 6-8 pm. The Korean American artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, paints invented organisms that suggest flowers, fungi, and seedpods in dark landscapes recalling nineteenth-century Romantic and Symbolist painting. Works were inspired partly by her visits to Jeju, South Korea, where her family traces its origins, and sculptures in ceramic, cast metal, and plaster sit on lily-pad-shaped steel platforms like miniature islands. This is Pae's second solo exhibition at the gallery and her first presentation in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meeson-pae-seed-memory-51009/", "official_url": "https://anatebgi.com/exhibitions/meeson-pae-seed-memory/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz", "start": "2026-08-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00-05:00", "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/contemporary"], "description": "An exhibition bringing together a selection of works from the historic gift of Peggy Cooper Cafritz's art collection to the Studio Museum in Harlem, running through February 28, 2027. Cafritz (1947–2018), an arts patron, educator, and civil rights activist who cofounded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, bequeathed the majority of her collection to the museum. Her bequest included over four hundred works by more than two hundred artists of African descent, spanning paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper. This is the first exhibition to tell a story of Cafritz as an art collector, organized by curator Connie H. Choi and curatorial assistant Kiki Teshome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dreams-of-this-future-the-collection-of-peggy-cooper-cafritz-53893/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67180f9368199293b0017c080175ce6483022d6e107f04ed540b02a028f1ce22-2000.webp"}, {"title": "There's no me without you", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/disability"], "description": "There's no me without you is an interactive exhibition by artist Finnegan Shannon, turning a 12-foot mechanized conveyor belt into a vehicle that brings artworks to visitors seated on surrounding furniture, who can engage through touch, sight, and sound. Shannon reimagines the belt from a longtime fantasy of an exhibition space that meets their access needs, designed as a space for rest and play, with the title drawing on interdependence in disability culture. Over its three-month run, the installation hosts three successive solo presentations of new works by Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Ariana Martinez, and Alex Dolores Salerno, figures of New York City's disability art scene. On September 12, it features Ariana Martinez's presentation of a soundscape with objects forming a \"tactile score,\" exploring touch as a shared language between ecologically entangled entities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/theres-no-me-without-you-54875/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5630d881ee482e7a89dbb3470223e4e587ec78feeeaebbac8d492b4447c22b5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Donald Moffett", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "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/contemporary", "history/us"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational writings, Common Sense and The American Crisis, with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Donald Moffett, and Maynard Monrow. Donald Moffett contributes a newly commissioned text-based work using graphic design strategies to deliver the message that power lies with us. As 250 years ago, the country navigates deep division, and the exhibition presents contemporary art as offering hope, inspiration, and momentum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/donald-moffett-50912/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82926d8d53a2a2e39799b64bf9dd1628a0da5444c084f8eec898db4e8c12a086-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Plant Ecologies and Migration", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Residency Unlimited", "address": "360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/plants", "society/migration"], "description": "Plant Ecologies and Migration is a panel discussion hosted at Residency Unlimited as part of Identity Card, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, 2026. Curated by Anna Khimasia, it brings together artists Bahar Behbahani, Rachelle Dang, and Sujin Lim. The panel explores how immigrant and diasporic artists use plants and gardens as a framework and vocabulary for thinking through migration, from transplantation and adaptation to rooting and preservation. It also considers how botanical categories such as \"native\" and \"invasive\" mirror systems that regulate the movement of people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/plant-ecologies-and-migration-55316/", "official_url": "https://residencyunlimited.org/programs/plant-ecologies-and-migration/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6bc96eee51c501ecdfa7c6b53fbcb7e30f4599841474af05f12cc255b0ab5b64-600.webp"}, {"title": "Field Notes Exhibition", "start": "2026-11-06T16:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "Free & open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/field-notes-notas-del-campo-tickets-2003837808828?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/community-art", "science/biology/ecology"], "description": "Field Notes / Notas del Campo is a summer workshop exhibition celebrating a season of creativity, exploration, and collective learning at Valé EcoLab. It is led by Valé Collective, a Latinx-led, eco-centered art and design organization, through the Field Notes public art and science program. Over spring and summer, artists and community members of all ages explored the coastal ecology of the Rockaways through hands-on art and science workshops, from natural dyes and coastal plants to soils, sound, and living environments. The exhibition brings together the community's artwork, experiments, and discoveries, with music by DJ Creepitona and refreshments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/field-notes-exhibition-52651/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/field-notes-/-notas-del-campo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c8e28b68eafb23ea2b2bc1649b35a6b94bcd81f356857c13c719c1025d8f7856-600.webp"}, {"title": "LaJuné McMillian: Child/ren of the Bloom", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/environment/oceans", "art/installation"], "description": "\"Child/ren of the Bloom\" is an interactive, multidisciplinary installation at Pioneer Works that explores the threshold between land and sea and the body's return to its origins. It was created by artist LaJuné McMillian as the culmination of a residency developed with OceanX Education in partnership with Pioneer Works, transforming her research on phytoplankton, algal blooms, and bioluminescence into a spiritual, embodied encounter with oceanic systems. The exhibition follows Child, a recurring avatar in the artist's work, through a first threshold crossing in which dissolving into oceanic life becomes a metaphor for an early encounter with the spirit world. Visitors can move their hands before a sensor-driven, floor-to-ceiling video installation that shifts between satellite views of algal blooms and close-ups of individual phytoplankton, alongside holographic displays, beaded embroidery, prayers and voiceovers, and a virtual oracle that invites conversation with Child.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lajune-mcmillian-children-of-the-bloom-71724/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1cb22f18e0cbdf3bc5502af9a5af0f783efcccfb46d793b7c38c6f5a6e34f96-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Westwood Gallery", "address": "Bowery 261, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit\" is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Westwood Gallery NYC. Planned with the artist and curated by James Cavello, it is the first presentation of his work following his passing in June 2026. Its centerpiece is \"Full Circle\" (2023), an eleven-panel mixed-media installation selected by MTA Arts & Design for a glass art commission at the Jamaica Bus Depot in Queens, shown alongside seventeen recent works from the final years of his life. Through vibrant abstraction, layered textiles such as Kente cloth and batiks, and expressive mark-making, Simmons explores ancestry, identity, memory, and belonging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/danny-simmons-the-journey-of-spirit-67465/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af53fe2eaaecd2a93b43f285be4994897fc7f1f93eb745512734f8fe903614e5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Psychic Telephone Reception", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "All Street Gallery", "address": "77 East 3rd St, New York, NY", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/conceptual-photography"], "description": "An opening reception for the exhibition Psychic Telephone at All Street Gallery. The collaborative project brings together photography by New York-based visual artist Danielle Ezzo and writing by Denver-based writer Marin Sardy, tracing how meaning changes as experience passes between people, writing, artificial intelligence, and photographs. The reception is held at the gallery's East Village space on 77 East Third Street.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/psychic-telephone-reception-50936/", "official_url": "https://allstnyc.com/3rd-psychic-telephone", "image": "https://noky.io/images/003620b17da29004849aa6850e150f13609e6a16ea5b123520e81bece6dc5461-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Artists Roundtable: Candace Hill-Montgomery", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T18:00:00-05:00", "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/contemporary"], "description": "A talk in the series The Artists Roundtable, an international forum for leading practitioners hosted by Tamsin Dillon of the School of Visual Arts' MA Curatorial Practice faculty. Its guest is Candace Hill-Montgomery, an American multidisciplinary artist, writer, poet, photographer, and educator whose work spans photography, collage, sculpture, installation, performance, painting, artist books, and weaving, engaging with race, feminism, environmentalism, poverty, political violence, and Black cultural history. She will guide the audience through the trajectory of her practice, from early works built from found objects foraged from torn-down buildings and detritus discovered in unknown towns, painted over and cleaned up to create new built environments, of which sometimes only her photographs remain. The talk looks at how her practice has grown and changed, how vital being an educator has been, and the impact it has on her own work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-artists-roundtable-candace-hill-montgomery-67137/", "official_url": "https://www.macp.sva.edu/events/the-artists-roundtable-candace-hill-montgomery", "image": "https://noky.io/images/36c31c984e0a2aaa1817aba8d76a236259cbfb99fcdbaf313b5d3f32912633a1-1200.webp"}]}