{"title": "Book Launch: Junior Architects", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "Van Alen Institute hosts a book launch for 'Junior Architects: New Paradigms in Design Education' with a conversation, Q&A, and reception. The event is led by the book's editors, Suzanne Lettieri and Anya Sirota, who host the discussion. The publication examines the pursuit of equity in architecture and design education in the United States amid widening political divides around race and class. 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Author Samuel Stein introduces his new book 'A Right to Housing?' and its untraditional structure with a short reading. He is then joined by Andrew Brown, policy expert at Van Alen Institute, for a discussion ranging from the politics of housing policy to what a genuine right to housing could look like in practice. 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Exhibition participants — Annie Barrett, Daniel Pittman, Paula Vilaplana de Miguel, Friends Making Work, and Gillian Waldo — present materials from Van Alen's archive through a performance of light and shadow. Moderator Marina Otero Verzier and respondent Mark Wasiuta guide the audience through the hidden histories these materials represent and exclude, exploring how scholars, historians, and critics reinterpret official architectural archives. The séance format draws on Paula Vilaplana de Miguel's research into the 19th-century North American Spiritualist movement, and an interpretation of 'the psychic cabinet' from the exhibition serves as the stage.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/an-archival-seance-with-marina-otero-verzier-57337/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/2fbf8b53a04b4e15cd24376fe929e00101c6905d51fed8d7f09611a7c3742b38-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Make It ’Til You Make It, Vol.2", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design"], "description": "Make It ’Til You Make It, Vol.2 is an evening of show-and-tell for unfinished design work, open to the public and free of charge. It is presented by MFA Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts. A curated group of designers each take ten minutes to show something they are still figuring out, such as a toy, a tool, a product or a service, with no case studies or highlight reels. The department also holds a few open slots for audience members to sign up in person on the night to present their own work in progress, and afterwards the floor opens for mingling and trading ideas.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/make-it-til-you-make-it-vol2-55734/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/make-it-til-you-make-it-vol-2", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/8c86e03ac757cbc4bc3713b3fcec894fe577cbd2d854a31d44cc27d75b68aee2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Harmony Hammond", "start": "2026-05-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00-05:00", "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"], "description": "Shelter from the Storm: An Artist's Eye with Stan Allen and Polly Apfelbaum is a group exhibition at the National Academy of Design, including work by Harmony Hammond. 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Education, Values & the Future of Black Children", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "First Baptist Church of Crown Heights", "address": "Eastern Parkway 450, 11225", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/education"], "description": "A panel discussion titled \"Are the Children Well? Education, Values & the Future of Black Children\". Prompted by recent discussions about school choice in Brooklyn, it brings together educators, scholars, and community leaders to look beyond where children attend school and ask what kind of communities they need to flourish, considering belonging, identity, culture, emotional well-being, and academic preparation. 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