Ready to get LIT? Illumination NYC, New York City's premier light festival, returns for three nights only. This year, the festival will take place at the grand reopening of Wagner Park. Visitors can enjoy large scale light installations, live performances, interactive experiences and more! It is free to join the fun, and there will be food and drinks available for purchase each night.
An Chen - an illustrator who works in sculptures, textiles, and animations - delivered a talk beaming with optimism and sincerity at September's Nicer Tuesdays in London, walking us through her angular illustrations and how she makes organic shapes interact with each other.
From simple yet deft strokes of graphite, ShouXin summons cats that jump, roll, crash, and express their curiosity. Detailed eyes, mouths, and noses complement the artist's gestural use of pencil for the rest of the felines' bodies, conveying energy, sounds, and plenty of cattitude through the fundamental use of line. Prints and occasionally originals are available for purchase in ShouXin's online shop, and you can follow updates on Instagram.
Hong Kong's beloved cultural destination Duddell's is stepping into a new chapter with a refreshed look and a powerful curatorial statement. Following an extensive redesign by the award-winning Andre Fu Studio, the restaurant and gallery hybrid has reopened its doors and is marking the occasion with Let's start over, a solo exhibition by Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Võ. The exhibition, curated by William Zhao, runs from September 17, 2025, through April 6, 2026, and serves as both a celebration of Duddell's revival and a retrospective of Võ's acclaimed practice.
How to Be a Dancer in Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons, to give it its proper title, is typical of the Irish dance/theatre maker Michael Keegan-Dolan a seemingly anarchic, yet tightly structured piece, that draws heavily from Irish culture and keeps the audience interested in the ins and outs of a tale mixing the absurd with the all too mundane, laughter with the odd touch of pathos, eclectic music with outlandish props.
"In my mind, I always try to start from scratch in order to avoid lapsing into a completely pre-established harmony by creating something based on a prior intention or plan," he has said. "Surprise is a necessity when making art. I welcome unforeseen accidents that transcend my imagination and let myself go with the flow. Mistakes are also welcome: failure breeds success."
David Zwirner is pleased to present Destiny, an exhibition of new paintings by Josh Smith, on view at the gallery's 606 N Western Avenue location in Los Angeles. This is Smith's first solo presentation in Los Angeles. For Destiny, Smith has made a series of paintings that continue his long-running dialogue with the grim reaper, a figure that has appeared in his work for years in countless guises.
Adrian Prosper is a no-nonsense kind of guy. A retired police officer, he has dealt with enough lowlifes to see the worst in everyone. Played with frightening humourlessness by Stuart Fox, he is all suspicion and mistrust. When his newly bereaved brother-in-law, Gerald (Russell Richardson), is befriended by Daniel (Iskandar Eaton), an enigmatic young man, he thinks only the worst of the relationship.
This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask. I talk venue safety and dramatic substance, or the lack thereof. Personally, I could've done without all of last week's apotheosis of a dead fascist. Never mind the poetic justice of a right-winger being shot by another right-winger; everyone from Guv-Gav to the NY Times painted this guy as some once-in-a-generation figure.
Noises Off is a masterfully crafted comedy that takes you on a wild ride behind the scenes of a theatre company's disastrous production of a farce called Nothing On. As the eccentric cast navigates forgotten lines, misplaced props, and personal feuds, their performances become increasingly chaotic, with doors slamming shut at the wrong moments, sardines going missing, and romantic entanglements causing tension.
On paper, the new Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza's Art sounds like a winner: three Tony Award winners Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, and James Corden trading barbs in a sleek comedy about male friendship and the value of modern art. The result is hardly terrible, but it is slight. The laughs are modest, the pacing drags, and the play never builds beyond its simple conceit.
Iranzo's project Permanent Souls examines how discarded materials can be transformed into functional sculptures that exist between visibility and absence. The work uses polypropylene nets, originally sourced from sports and construction contexts, and combines them with epoxy resin to create lightweight, permeable structures. The design process emphasizes handcraft and material specificity. Each piece is produced through an artisanal method that preserves the distinct qualities of the nets while stabilizing them in new forms.
The Los Gatos Art & Wine Festival is set for Sept. 20-21 in downtown Los Gatos, bringing hundreds of artists, live musicians, vineyard operators and brewers to town. The event will run from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. both days on the Civic Center lawn at 110 E. Main St. Over 200 artists are expected to set up booths, and there will be live music on both days. Fine wine, craft beer and gourmet food trucks will also be set up for the event.
London already boasts a formidable art and gallery scene - and soon it's getting three more arty institutions. Even more intriguingly, they'll be inside one of the most aesthetically controversial buildings in the city (and City): No 1 Poultry. The new galleries have been launched by art charity Hypha Studios, and they'll open next week (on September 24). The venues will then be open to the public for 12 months and totally free to access.
Since 2003, Haroshi has engaged in creating artworks through a unique and self-taught method of utilizing parts from old skateboard decks. He continues to receive much acclaim and recognition as an artist who symbolizes the current street scene through various activities including his collaborations with the street brand HUF and the production of the trophies for BATB, one of the world's leading skateboarding competitions.
Such decisions, in the face of macro events including wars in Europe and the Middle East, a Chinese property crash, trade wars and sticky inflation, suggest that the art market is facing a collapse not witnessed since 1991-after which, according to data from Arts Economics, it took 14 years for art sales to recover. Back in the early 1990s, many Western economies, including those of the US and UK, went into recession, a situation that the art market could not ignore.
Without the vast overheads of auction houses and galleries, the leaner, nimbler, more discreet advisory model chimes with a cautious market. "Many of us advisors have thought, what about a Super Advisory firm: taking five specialists from different departments in the auction houses and putting them to work without the overheads," says Josh Baer, author of the Baer Faxt trade newsletter and himself an art adviser.
Donald Judd's architecture office in Marfa will reopen this month after a seven-year restoration. The building caught fire in 2021, less than one month before what was originally a three-year renovation was due to be completed, partially collapsing the roof and parts of the top floor. The $3.3m restoration of the two-floor brick building began in 2018 as part of the Marfa Restoration Plan, a project to restore six sites under the stewardship of the Judd Foundation.
Her choice? San Francisco designer Ken Fulk, whose style she described as louche with a little too much velvet. That style is on display at Saint Joseph's Arts Society, which Fulk founded in 2018, turning the former Romanesque church into a glamorous, massive art space south of Market. Looking around on September 12th, the opening night of La Pocha Nostra's The Other Art World, it seems that for Fulk, there is no such thing as too much velvet.
You might know him as the founder of the HellaFunny comedy collective, the owner of San Francisco's first Black-owned comedy club, or from his stand-up sets at Cobb's and Punch Line. Maybe you caught him on NBC, ABC, or in his featured role on STARZ's Blindspotting (they even wrote a part just for him - called "Stroy"). He's performed everywhere from Hawaii to Europe to Asia, but on September 27, he's bringing something entirely new to San Francisco.
Deb Dasgupta, Absolut Vodka's VP Global Marketing, said about the installation: 'Absolut has always believed that art should be open, joyful and for everyone. Keith Haring's work radiated that belief - full of energy, colour and hope. 'With Absolut Haring, we're inviting a new generation to celebrate that spirit in a public space - in an underground station that reflects and connects to the subways that inspired Haring more than forty years ago.'
The Korean Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia marks its 30th anniversary with "Little Toad, Little Toad: Unbuilding Pavilion," an exhibition commissioned by Arts Council Korea (ARKO) and curated by Curating Architecture Collective (CAC), composed of Chung Dahyoung, Kim Heejung, and Jung Sungkyu. Bringing together architects and artists Kim Hyunjong, Heechan Park, Young Yena, and Lee Dammy, the exhibition critically revisits the pavilion as both a physical structure and a symbolic space, tracing its trajectory since its completion in 1995.
In Kris Kuksi's "Leda and the Swan," the mythical woman sits nude and slightly less voluptuous than Rubens and Cézanne's versions of her. In this mixed-media assemblage, the mother of Helen of Troy is surrounded by cities that literally rise above her and more that are flipped upside down. Train tracks crumble. Armies go to battle. Severed heads hang from the trees that loom over the scenes.
This year LA Louver celebrated 50 years in business-making it the longest-running gallery in Los Angeles-with a major anniversary show featuring longtime artists such as David Hockney, Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Rebecca Campbell, Gajin Fujita and Alison Saar. Now, the Venice space is closing to the public, as the gallery transitions into a new phase that includes private dealing and pop-up exhibitions, mainly from its Jefferson Boulevard warehouse in the city's West Adams neighbourhood.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn has never shied away from confronting the most difficult corners of the human condition. With ECHOES FROM COPELAND, his fifth solo exhibition with Gagosian, the acclaimed American artist channels fear, grief, and redemption into a deeply visceral body of work. The exhibition, currently on view at Gagosian's West 24th Street gallery through October 25, draws inspiration from literature and figurative abstraction to create an emotional terrain as fractured as it is full of possibility.
