A Climate Week NYC overview

Climate Week NYC is the largest annual climate event of its kind, bringing together some 400 events and activities across the City of New York – in person, hybrid and online. Each year, business leaders, political change makers, local decision-takers and civil society representatives of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world, gather to drive the transition, speed up progress, and champion change that is already happening.

Climate Week NYC is hosted by Climate Group, an international non-profit whose purpose is to drive climate action, fast. Climate Group hosts the official program during the week that brings together the most senior international figures from business, government, civil society and the climate sector.

The event takes place every year in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly and is run in coordination with the United Nations and the City of New York.

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The first exhibition of its kind exploring the extraordinary career of fashion model Naomi Campbell. Through the work of leading global designers and photographers we celebrate her creative collaborations, activism and far-reaching cultural impact.

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Photo London was the first photography fair to take place anywhere in the world since 2019

• Over the five days of Fair, Photo London registered 35,000 visitors, and reported strong sales across all sectors

• 88 galleries from 15 countries took part in the Fair’s sixth edition.

• 99 galleries took part in the second edition of Photo London Digital

• Despite travel difficulties strong attendance from international museums and individual collectors

• Public programme exhibitions by Shirin Neshat and Robert Capa were widely praised as a highlight of the Fair

• Heather Agyepong, represented by James Hyman Gallery, won the Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award

• The acclaimed Talks Programme moved online and continue throughout September alongside Photo London Digital II, featuring over 28 events in all.

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Drawing Now Art Fair is the first contemporary art fair exclusively dedicated to drawing in Europe, created in 2007.

On the occasion of its17th edition, Drawing Now Art Fair will return to the Carreau du Temple in the3rd arrondissement in Paris.

Join us from Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 March 2024 to discover the galleries and artists of this edition!

A selection of international galleries will present their selection of works around contemporary drawing from the last 50 years. The two sectors, Insight and Process, will once again show the most contemporary side of drawing.

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The Annual London Surf / Film Festival is the UK’s largest celebration of contemporary surf culture bringing to these shores the very best surf films from around the globe  – a hand picked line up of must-see premieres to inspire, excite & entertain while redefining the parameters of possibility.

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Paris Photo is the largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium and is held each November in the heart of Paris. Since 1997, the Fair’s mission is to promote and nurture photographic creation and the galleries, publishers and artists at its source.

Paris Photo brings together up to 200 exhibitors from across the world, offering collectors and enthusiasts the most diverse and qualitative presentation of photography-driven projects today. Leading galleries showcase historical and contemporary artworks from modern masters to young talents. Specialized publishers and art book dealers present unique and rare editions, as well as book launches and signature sessions with many of today’s most renowned artists.

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ASIA NOW, the first Parisian art fair showcasing the diversity of Asia’s contemporary art scene.

As an ideal platform for dialogue and interaction dedicated to contemporary artistic creation, ASIA NOW addresses in greater depth the selected artistic scene through a Curatorial Platform and Special Projects.

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The first exhibition to chart how skateboards have evolved from the 1950s to now; a story of design, daring and disobedience.

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THE CAR RALLY THAT TAKES YOU BACK TO THE 90’S!

A total look rally bringing together the most emblematic cars with the rhythms and style of that decade. A contest of elegance and the images produced throughout the event will bring back to life the cars, outfits, accessories, hairstyles, music and electronic devices of these flamboyant years.

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Art on Paper, the international fair for contemporary drawing in Brussels.

Art on Paper presents in the heart of Brussels a unique panorama of the quality and diversity of contemporary approaches to drawing through the organization of an international fair dedicated to this practice.

Art on Paper offers the various audiences, both professionals and amateurs, the opportunity to discover this diversity through the presentation of artists selected by established and emerging Belgian and international galleries.

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Unseen Amsterdam is the leading international art fair for contemporary photography.

The next edition of Unseen Photo Fair will take place in Cultuurpark Westergas. This art fair, dedicated to the latest developments in contemporary photography, has been regarded as progressive, international and of institutional quality from the very first edition. PLEASE NOTE: Listed dates and starting times for 2023 are subject to change.

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The first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, charting the establishment of the House of CHANEL and the evolution of her iconic design style which continues to influence the way women dress today.

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CONSCIOUS CREATIVITY

After the brigades, the cooking is freed from the established order, the rules in force, dictates and certainties. Contemporary chefs deliver a more personal vision, more identity, singular: there is no longer a single cooking but as many foods as those who imagine it.

Creativity frees itself from the classic straitjacket to offer more than an irreproachable dish: an emotion.

Sirha Omnivore is the rear base, the melting pot of this new wave of chefs. Their unbridled, globalized creativity is nonetheless based on an acute awareness of their territories, of their roots.

Welcome to the Young Kitchen!

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Art on Paper New York

Art on Paper, New York City’s celebrated, medium-driven fair, returns to downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36 during September 2023’s Armory Art Week with 100 galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art. The fair’s ninth edition will showcase unique and and powerful projects curated by Artistic Director Nato Thompson, with a focus on can’t-miss performances highlighting the creative potential of paper.

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Every year since 2014, between the end of August and the beginning of September, we open the doors to our home and gather people from all over the world in Figueira da Foz, a small coastal town in Portugal. For almost a week we share waves, boards, music, art, food and wine.

Gliding Barnacles was born from the desire to share the beaches of Cabo do Mondego and to celebrate the culture of the Atlantic Ocean with people from all over the world.

(Dates might change)

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Connections, Awakening & Spirituality

Community is about personal awakening and social change. Russell Brand and friends are back in Hay-On-Wye for 3 days of camping, conversation on spirituality, wellness, healthy living and our environment. Limber up for yoga or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, enjoy musical performances , relax with meditation and massage from a range of holistic healers on site.

Be inspired by the natural beauty of the area with a canoeing experience on the River Wye.

Profits from Community will go to our Stay Free Foundation which proudly supports people through recovery and addiction.

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One of the world’s most loved artists takes us up and away as part of Factory International’s opening summer programme.

Yayoi Kusama is bringing her largest-ever immersive environment to Manchester. Conceived especially for the soaring spaces of Factory International, Yayoi Kusama - You, Me and the Balloons celebrates three decades of the pioneering Japanese artist's inflatable artworks, which are brought together for the first time in this major exhibition. Journey through Kusama's psychedelic creations - many over 10m tall - including giant dolls, spectacular tendrilled landscapes and a vast constellation of polka-dot spheres.

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AN IMPRESSIVE TRAIL OF XXL ARTWORKS

Step into a vast 1,000m² exhibition space filled with XXL and monumental works to freely discover.

Explore their vibrant presence as they come to life in giant scale within color-themed rooms. Whether you're an art enthusiast, young or old, or simply seeking novelty, discover a multitude of captivating artworks.

Experience art in a new way in this colourful exhibition, located in a completely transformed and unusual space.

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DISCOVER. CONNECT. COLLECT.

VOLTA Art Fair fosters galleries in staging ambitious solo and group presentations, refining the experience to its essential elements: the artists and their work. This focus on compelling visual statements by up-and-coming and established artists cultivates a vibrant and approachable environment of discovery for the engaged collector.

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Art Market San Francisco is the Bay Area’s premier art fair. Art Market San Francisco will feature eighty-five modern and contemporary art galleries from around the world. Following record-breaking sales, city-wide partnerships, and attendance of over 28,000 visitors, the 2023 edition of Art Market San Francisco is pleased to present a significant selection of contemporary and modern artworks from returning Art Market exhibitors and exciting newcomers.

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Ai Weiwei is one of the most significant and recognised artists working today. Known around the world for his powerful art and activism, Ai does not differentiate between disciplines: his practice glides across art, architecture, design, film, collecting and curating.

This major exhibition, developed in collaboration with the artist, will be the first to present his work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values. Through his engagement with material culture, Ai explores the tension between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction.

The exhibition draws on Ai fascination with historical Chinese artefacts, placing their traditional craftsmanship in dialogue with the more recent history of demolition and urban development in China. The result is a meditation on value – on histories and skills that have been ignored or erased.

Discover some of the artist’s most important works displayed alongside collections of objects that have never been seen and new commissions made for the exhibition.

#MakingSense

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London’s leading festival of experimental games, Now Play This, returns to Somerset House this April, as part of the city-wide London Games Festival, showcasing the very latest in independent and experimental game design from across the globe. 

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Festival of contemporary and traditional Japanese culture, video games, manga, high-tech, web culture taking place at the Halle d'Iraty in Biarritz, in the Basque Country.

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While the 1955 Wolfenden Report and the 1967 Sexual Offences Act marked the partial decriminalisation of gay sexual activity, prompting gay liberation and the fight for social equality; any depiction of male nudity which suggested homosexuality remained subject to the 1857 Obscene Publications Act, which made making or distributing such images a criminal offence.

A clandestine visual culture emerged, regulated by laws which enforced homosexuality as invisible. In turn, it directly fed the defiant, overt visuality of gay men’s bodies that emerged in the post-war period. 

Taking a novel approach, the exhibition highlights key areas of London which were a focus for men seeking out men to photograph. It maps out a territory of risk and possibility across Highgate, between Chelsea and Wellington Barracks, in Soho, Brixton, Portobello and Euston. Catalogues, print ordering sheets, personal albums, magazines and publications are also included in the exhibition to explore how these photographs were circulated, exchanged and shared.

The hinge of this history is the posing pouch, a modest fabric covering for the male genitals developed by gay physique photographers to show as much of the male body as possible. Its origins lie in the US, in the Athletic Model Guild established by Bob Mizer in 1945, although there is evidence of it being worn for sunbathing in London in the early 1930s.

An original 1950s posing pouch will be on display in the exhibition.

A Hard Man is Good to Find! is curated by Alistair O'Neill, professor of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London).

The exhibition will be on show alongside the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023.

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The Classic Car Show team is responsible for creating some of the UK’s most exciting and iconic Classic Car events. We’re in the business of creating live events that celebrate classic cars, telling their stories, showcasing legends and allowing our visitors to not only admire these beautiful machines, and the people behind them, but to also experience them at their best, on road or on the track. Our portfolio now includes The London Classic Car Show, plus a new addition to the family to be announced shortly.

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Between Realities is a dual exhibition presenting new and recent works of Japanese-French design duo, Aki+Arnaud Cooren, in dialogue with the works of German-born contemporary artist Thomas Demand. The exhibition develops the themes underpinning both artist’s creative oeuvres that lean into the visual play between “what is real” and “what is illusion”.

In their minimalist Tiss-Tiss series, Aki+Arnaud succinctly combine the harshness of metal with the fragile poetry of fabric. They developed a special manufacturing process which incorporates the process of sand-casting to achieve the appearance of intricate, handmade detail on the object’s surface. They mould a silicone duplicate of an original cardboard and linen master model, which is then sand-cast in aluminium, and dyed in colour. The duo experimented with this technique already in 2017 when their first Tiss-Tiss low chair which was awarded the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for l’intelligence de la main (the intelligence of the hand). It took them almost four years to develop the process, further resulting in a large amount of works which complete the Tiss-Tiss collection.

The Tiss-Tiss artworks display a relief of fabric on the surface and sewn stitch imprints on the edges of each sand-cast colourfully patinated aluminium component. The artists capture a moment in time during which the linen fabric is carefully laid out and emphasize the beauty of traditional hand-weaving techniques and the resulting irregularities in the cloth. The fluid impression of the textile imprint is juxtaposed with the architectonic, self-supporting structure of the rigid aluminium plates.

The Buddhist philosophy of Impermanence is an important influence on the collection, as is the art of Keisuke Serizawa (1895-1984), a textiles master and previously a Living National Treasure of Japan, of whom Aki’s father was a student for some time. Serizawa’s Waterfall (1962), a depiction of a narrow waterfall silk-screen printed onto blue-dyed cloth, is exemplary of their shared philosophy; the linear flow of the waterfall equates to that of time, of which Serizawa takes a snapshot, creating stillness from fluidity. So too do Aki+Arnaud fix an arrangement of fluid fabric into metal as a means of preservation, contrasting rigidity with perceived softness.

Such a level of detail achieved by their masterful casting process, that the metal exhibits an illusory trompe-l’oeil effect. This visual dissonance between form and surface immediately questions the nature of the work, and more importantly its use. For Aki+Arnaud design is a matter of context and harmony, and of sharing an idea, so it is paramount that their works’ functional relationship with its surroundings is questioned. They appreciate that the relationship between any two objects or concepts is transient, as shifting as the strands of fabric on which their forms are modelled.

In a similar manner Thomas Demand suspends disbelief; meticulously captures ephemeral models through a camera. Demand’s photographs may seem objective and innocuous, but each scene is in fact handmade sculptural environment, rather than the real world they appear to capture. The artists are also linked via an appreciation of architectural forms, as well as an interest in ephemerality. Demand’s sculptures live on in his photographs.

The French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, has an immense impact on the practice of both Aki+Arnaud Cooren and Thomas Demand. The duplicity inherent in this exhibition parallels French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s thesis, ‘Simulacra and Simulation’. Whereas in Aki+Arnaud’s works, aluminium becomes a simulacrum of fabric, in Thomas’s art, paper becomes a simulacrum of reality – both stimulate viewers to question the reality of the world that surrounds them.

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From defiant train writers to powerful large-scale muralists, over 100 international artists are featured in BEYOND THE STREETS LONDON. The exhibition, supported by adidas Originals, is the most comprehensive graffiti & street art exhibition to open in the UK, and takes over all three floors of London’s iconic Saatchi Gallery.

Following successful exhibitions in Los Angeles & New York, BEYOND THE STREETS LONDON features new works, large-scale installations, original ephemera and extraordinary fashion that capture the powerful impact of graffiti & street art across the world.

Curated by graffiti historian Roger Gastman, BEYOND THE STREETS LONDON examines the fundamental human need for public self-expression, highlighting artists with roots in graffiti and street art whose work has evolved into highly disciplined studio practices, alongside important cultural figures inspired by this art scene.

Each of the exhibition’s chapters explore exceptional moments in the history of this artistic movement; including the emergence of punk; the birth of hip-hop - marking its 50th anniversary in 2023; and street culture’s strong influence in fashion and film.

Curated & Founded by: Roger Gastman
Curation: Kim Stephens, Evan Pricco & Raoul Shah
Historical Research & Curation: Caleb Neelon, Caroline Ryder, Toby Mott, Andrew Hayes, Rob Fever, Claudia Gold, Sean Corcoran

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PEAKY BLINDERS: THE RISE is "a truly unmissable experience" (Express) that transports you inside the world of TV’s most notorious drama at the Camden Garrison, the glamorously gritty new venue in the heart of Camden Market.

Will Tommy Shelby and his family succeed in their ambition to take over London? It’s all up to you, as you explore the live sets, complete the challenges and interact with the show’s most iconic characters. Whether you’re a devoted fan or just up for a brilliant night out, dust off your finest flat cap and get ready for "a boisterous good time!" (WhatsOnStage).

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