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Inwood Art Works: STILL ALIVE Opening Reception

STILL ALIVE: Seeing friends in Gaza. Portraits, as they see themselves.

Malak. Hind. Adel. Nabil. Heba. Mona. Mohammed. Sobhi. These are some of the people at the heart of Still Alive—friends in Gaza whose lives have become closely connected with people in Inwood.

The exhibition brings their photographs into the gallery at a scale we rarely give to the images people share in everyday life. Made by them or with their participation, the portraits show people as they have chosen to be seen: with family and friends, in moments of humor, tenderness, pride, and ordinary life. They also hold the knowledge of what it takes to make and share such images in Gaza now.

Over the past several years, friendships have grown through messages, photographs, fundraising, and direct support. Still Alive grows from those relationships. It invites visitors to spend time with the people in the photographs, to learn their names, and to see more of their lives than any account of a crisis can hold.

Presented by Goods for Gaza at Inwood Art Works Studio

Still Alive runs November 15 through December 5, 2026.

Inwood Art Works: Select Works by Yiorgos

Opening celebration: Select Works by Yiorgos

Yiorgos is pleased to present his work at Inwood Art Works this Fall (2026). He has successfully exhibited at ChocNYC (February 2025) and Kuro Kirin (Fall 2024). His pieces are to be found in several private collections. Yiorgos (George Tsugranes) retired in 2018 from his professions as a floral designer and a middle school math teacher for the Annenberg-funded arts program of JHS 22 and at the Special Music School near Lincoln Center. He has been creating visual art ever since. Yiorgos’s art is always life-affirming, playful, and appealing. He has shaped a unique style that is instantly recognizable, bringing an appreciation of organic forms and the omnipresence of geometry to his work. When not creating stirring images, he enjoys playing classical and jazz music at the piano, traveling abroad, and taking long walks with his wife and Labrador retriever.

Yiorgos has carefully selected works from several periods of his creative life, including Geometric Landscapes in a riot of color and pure Abstractions in black and white. From Greek villages to industrial skylines, from sere mountains to turgid seas, these selections demonstrate his curiosity and wide-ranging vision.

On Exhibition November 3-14, 2026

NoMAA: Opening Art Reception “Dear Earth… Love, Uptown”

The earth is speaking to us through rising seas, disappearing forests, vanishing species. The systems that sustain life — clean air, fresh water, stable seasons — are buckling under the strain. These are no longer distant warnings; our planet is in crisis.

Dear Earth is conceived as a visual letter to our planet — an act of address, apology, gratitude, or promise. We invite artists to consider what it means to speak directly to the earth at this moment. Themes include healing and art as a site of repair; the immediacy of the unfolding crisis; calls to action and appeals for planetary change; preservation and cultivation of indigenous lands; the fragility of the earth and our own; uncertainty or hope; the honoring of beauty and resilience; the artist as witness.

Dyckman Farmhouse: Opening Reception “Spot P!”

Come and celebrate the opening of Spot P! by Kasper Klop, Deron Gopie, and Morwenna Spagnol. Free and open to the public.
Peter Stuyvesant is often credited with laying the foundations for what became New York City.

Today, this man of Dutch origin is celebrated all around town: statues, neighborhoods in his name, cigarette brand…
Yet, if we take a closer look, he was a trader and owner of enslaved Africans in the United States. Bolstered by his fortune and his influence, he sold enslaved people at public auction, held and expressed deeply antisemitic views, violently oppressed the Lenape, and actively suppressed religious minorities.

Dutch artist Kasper Klop asked himself: what is my responsibility to reckon with this history as a Dutch person, and what would happen if the full story got told, rather than a partial one, as so often happens in our commemorative landscape?

In collaboration with his long-time artistic partner Morwenna Spagnol, and videographer Deron Gopie, Kasper and the team created a multiple choice survey investigating how much New Yorkers really know about Stuyvesant, and once they know the facts, what they think about them.

Where did the team investigate? At three sites celebrating the old colonial officer: Stuyvesant Square in Manhattan with his very own statue, Stuyvesant Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn), and outside a smoke shop – because yes, Peter even had a cigarette brand named after him, whose branding was often based on white people discovering and appropriating exotic frontiers, looking very cool and smoking Stuyvesants while doing so.

Who got interviewed? Whoever happened to pass the place celebrating Stuyvesant at the moment in time that the team was there. People walking their dog, coming back from work, dropping their kids at school… In other words, the collective. The team questioned the life of a place with the history behind its name.

The exhibition at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum showcases New Yorkers’ fascinating replies to the survey, their knowledge (or lack thereof), views, astonishment, powerlessness, indifference, outrage and nuanced responses that grapple with holding multiple contradictions at once. Also on view are extracts from primary source materials – that is, what Stuyvesant wrote in his own hand about his dark deeds, as well as original letters addressed directly to him.

Spot P! will be on view at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum from October 29, 2026 to January 30, 2027.

Word Up Recirculation: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s DAYLIGHT COME

Word Up welcomes Publisher’s Weekly Director of Publishing Joshua Jelly-Schapiro to discuss his new book Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made (Significations), a vibrant, revealing portrait of the “King of Calypso,” whose extraordinary performing career and activism helped remake America through the civil rights era and beyond.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with a maximum of 100 attendees. Please register in advance.

ABOUT THE BOOK Even three years after his death, Harry Belafonte is everywhere. You can’t go to a wedding, or to a sports arena, without hearing “Day-O,” “Jump in the Line,” or “Jamaica Farewell.” The Harlem-born son of Caribbean immigrants, Belafonte turned the folk music of the islands into American pop—and shaped the fantasy of Caribbean life that endures as an ideal and as a multibillion-dollar tourist industry. Belafonte released the first million-selling LP in history. He was America’s first Black movie star, the first Black person to produce a prime-time special on network TV, and the first to win an Emmy Award. He was once the highest-paid Black performer of all time, beloved by Black and white fans alike, even under segregation. His artistic career helped create the pop culture of the twentieth century—and his political activism reshaped the course of American history.

In this sparkling new biography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro brings Belafonte’s personality and music vibrantly to life, following him from rags to riches and from Harlem to Jamaica to the March on Washington. Jelly-Schapiro takes us inside Belafonte’s lifelong brotherhood with Sidney Poitier, his friendship with Fidel Castro, his collaboration with Nelson Mandela, and the sometimes shocking therapeutic relationships his difficult upbringing necessitated. At the heart of the story is Belafonte’s bond with Martin Luther King Jr., whose cause Belafonte would champion for the rest of his life. That commitment to the greater good would sustain him and benefit untold numbers—and would come at a cost.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names; Island People: The Caribbean and the World; and, with Rebecca Solnit, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. His work appears regularly in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. Jelly-Schapiro teaches journalism at New York University and is director of publishing at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, where he hosts the popular Author Talks series and is coeditor in chief of Pioneer Works Broadcast.

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