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• Nomad Fair Expands to Abu Dhabi and Hamptons in 2025-2026 festival-fair

  Founded in 2017 by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, the Nomad fair is set to launch new editions in Abu Dhabi and the Hamptons in 2025 and 2026. The event will make its West Asian…

• Stay Frosty: An Art Fair in a New York Parking Lot festival-fair

  A new art fair called Stay Frosty will take place in a parking lot in West Harlem, New York, from October 24 to 26, 2025, with a second edition already announced for 2026.…

• Lambrate Art Night 2025: Milan's Gallery District Opens with New Shows festival-fair

  On September 24, 2025, from 18:00 to 21:00, the Lambrate district in Milan will be the venue for the annual Lambrate Art Night, organized by Associazione Made in Lambrate. This…

• PMA Films Announces September Screenings Including 'Tremors' with Finn Carter and New Documentaries festival-fair

  The Portland Museum of Art's film program, PMA Films, has scheduled a series of screenings from September 23 to October 5. Highlights include a free outdoor showing of 'Tremors'…

• New Creative Directors Debut at Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks for Spring/Summer 2026 festival-fair

  The Spring/Summer 2026 fashion season sees a wave of new creative directors debuting at major houses during Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks. In Milan, Louise Trotter presents her…

• First International Forum on Cultural Institution Sustainability Launches in Santa Sofia festival-fair

  Scheduled for September 26 to 28, 2025, the inaugural International Forum on the Sustainability of Cultural Institutions will take place in Santa Sofia, Italy. This hybrid…

• Tokyo Gendai 2025 Fair Strengthens East Asian Art Networks Amid Shifting Market Dynamics festival-fair

  The third edition of Tokyo Gendai took place from September 11 to 14 at Pacifico Yokohama, moving to the fall season to coincide with Japan's cultural events, including Expo 2025…

• Roma ospita la seconda edizione del Festival dell'Architettura Picta festival-fair

  La seconda edizione del Festival Internazionale dell'Architettura Picta si è svolta a Roma dal 18 al 21 settembre 2025 nel Refettorio di Andrea del Pozzo, presso Trinità dei…

• Artissima 2025: director Luigi Fassi on the richest edition yet festival-fair

  The 32nd Artissima, led by Luigi Fassi, is set to take place from October 31 to November 2 at the Oval Lingotto in Turin. This year's theme draws inspiration from Richard…

• To Listen To 2025: Torino's Avant-Garde Music Festival with INA GRM's Acousmonium festival-fair

  The fourth iteration of To Listen To, an avant-garde listening festival in Torino, is scheduled for September 22 to October 5, 2025, at locations such as OGR and Conservatorio…

• Book Look at Pordenoneleghe: Independent Publishing Resists Market Logic festival-fair

  The Pordenonelegge festival sees the return of Book Look, an independent section dedicated to visual publishing, hosted at the Ex Convento di San Francesco under the theme…

• Mare d’Arte Festival documentary premieres on Sky Arte festival-fair

  A special documentary on the Mare d’Arte Festival will premiere on Sky Arte on Tuesday, September 23. The festival took place from July 4 to 13 in Milano Marittima, Italy,…

• Fantastico Medioevo festival transforms Basilicata's medieval heritage into contemporary performance festival-fair

  The Fantastico Medioevo festival, running until September 28, 2025, turns iconic medieval sites in Basilicata's Vulture and Alto Bradano regions into stages for theatre, music,…

• Julian Rosefeldt's 'Manifesto' Opens XNL Aperto 2025 in Piacenza festival-fair

  Julian Rosefeldt's video installation 'Manifesto' is on view at XNL Arte Piacenza until November 25, 2025, curated by Paola Nicolin. The 13-channel work, first shown in 2015 at…

• Lake Como Design Festival 2025 Opens Historic Sites and Showcases Contemporary Design festival-fair

  The seventh edition of the Lake Como Design Festival is currently underway and will continue until September 21, 2025. This year's theme, 'Fragments,' brings together various…

• Mag to Mag: Milan's Independent Publishing Festival Returns for Third Edition festival-fair

  The third edition of Mag to Mag, a festival dedicated to independent publishing, will take place at BASE Milano on September 13–14, 2025. The event features over eighty…

• Benji Reid's 'Find Your Eyes' Opens Dance Reflections Season at NYU Abu Dhabi festival-fair

  Benji Reid premiered 'Find Your Eyes' as the 11th season opener for Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels at The Arts NYU Abu Dhabi. The performance merges photography,…

• Milano Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2026: A Season of Transition and Tributes festival-fair

  Milan Fashion Week Women's Spring/Summer 2026 runs from September 23 to 29, 2025, featuring 171 events including 54 physical shows, 4 digital shows, 78 presentations, and 30…

• Orvieto Cinema Fest 2025: cortometraggi internazionali e mostra di Fatima Bianchi festival-fair

  L'Orvieto Cinema Fest, giunto alla sua ottava edizione, si svolgerà dal 24 al 27 settembre 2025 presso il Teatro Mancinelli di Orvieto. Saranno presentati 23 cortometraggi…

• Zeitz MOCAA Offers Free Admission and Cultural Activities for Heritage Day 2025 festival-fair

  Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa will provide complimentary entry on September 24, 2025, for Heritage Day celebrations. The Cape Town institution has organized multilingual…

• Go For Kogei Festival Blends Contemporary Art and Craft in Japan's Hokuriku Region festival-fair

  The sixth edition of Go For Kogei (GFK) runs until October 19 in Toyama and Kanazawa, Japan, featuring 18 artists and collectives from 15 Japanese cities and other Asian cities.…

• IRA Festival debuts in Soverato, Calabria, with international performances festival-fair

  The first edition of IRA, a festival of performance, experimental theater, dance, and music, took place in Soverato, Calabria, from September 4 to 7, 2025. The festival aimed to…

• Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company performs Forsythe and Mandafounis at Romaeuropa Festival festival-fair

  The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company took the stage at the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome on September 9–10, 2025, as part of the Romaeuropa Festival, with support from Dance…

• Artissima 2025: 176 gallerie e 13 premi a Torino festival-fair

  La 32esima edizione di Artissima, la fiera italiana dedicata all'arte contemporanea, avrà luogo all'Oval Torino dal 31 ottobre al 2 novembre 2025, con una preview fissata per il…

• Roundtable Explores Soviet-Era Environmental Transformation in Central Asian Art festival-fair

  A roundtable titled 'Visualizing the Transformation of Nature in Central Asia: Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA)' was held at University College London on May 29,…

• Mario Mariotti's 1980 Projection Event Transforms Florence's Santo Spirito Basilica festival-fair

  In 1980, Florentine artist Mario Mariotti organized 'Piazza della Palla,' a public art event in Florence's Piazza Santo Spirito. He projected over two hundred imaginative designs…

• Panorama 2025: Divination and Contemporary Art in Pozzuoli and Cuma festival-fair

  The fifth edition of Panorama, curated by Chiara Parisi and promoted by Italics (a consortium of Italian private galleries), runs until September 14, 2025, across Pozzuoli and…

• Three art-nature events in Italy and Canada for September 2025 festival-fair

  The Landscape Festival in Bergamo, Italy, is set to continue until September 21, 2025, in the historic area of Bergamo Alta. Organized by Arketipos in collaboration with Comune di…

• London Design Festival 2025: AI, Craft, and Urban Installations Across Ten Districts festival-fair

  The 23rd London Design Festival is set to take place from September 13 to 21, 2025, turning ten neighborhoods into a creative hub. Central themes will focus on AI, innovative…

• Portland Museum of Art Presents 'Fall of '75' Film Series Celebrating 1975 Cinema festival-fair

  The Portland Museum of Art's PMA Films will screen 'Fall of '75,' a film series marking the 50th anniversary of notable 1975 releases. This program highlights significant works…

• Vienna's viennacontemporary and Parallel Vienna Art Fairs Open for 2025 Edition festival-fair

  From September 11 to 15, 2025, Vienna will be the venue for two significant contemporary art fairs: viennacontemporary at Messe Wien and Parallel Vienna at Otto Wagner Areal. The…

• Bergamo's 'Segni dell'Anima' festival focuses on cultural accessibility festival-fair

  The third edition of #tuoCarmine, featuring the festival 'Segni dell'Anima' (Signs of the Soul), will take place at the Monastero del Carmine in Bergamo from September 12 to 21,…

• Venice Design Biennial 2025 Opens with Theme Extinction/Salvation festival-fair

  The fifth edition of the Venice Design Biennial, an independent project promoted by VeniceArtFactory, opened in Venice and runs until November 2, 2025. Curated by Francesca…

• Independent 20th Century Fair Highlights Overlooked Arab Women Artists in New York festival-fair

  The fourth edition of Independent 20th Century was held at Casa Cipriani in Manhattan, emphasizing art from the twentieth century and highlighting marginalized artists. Among the…

• Museion Bolzano Marks 40 Years with 24-Hour Art Marathon festival-fair

  Museion, established in 1985 and housed in a building designed by Berlin's KSV studio since 2008, is commemorating its 40th anniversary with a 24-hour art marathon titled 24HOURS.…

• Singapore Biennale 2025 lineup unveiled, Helsinki Biennial 2027 curators announced, and Ha Chong-Hyun Art Center opens. festival-fair

  The eighth edition of the Singapore Biennale, titled 'pure intention,' is set to take place from October 31, 2025, to March 29, 2026. It will feature over 80 artists and more than…

• Five Asian Artists Present Self-Portraits at 2025 Armory Show Amid Economic Challenges festival-fair

  Under the leadership of director Kyla McMillan, the 2025 Armory Show commenced at the Javits Center in New York, drawing more than 50,000 attendees and featuring 230 exhibitors…

• Second edition of Germinale festival expands to 22 towns in Basso Monferrato festival-fair

  The contemporary art festival Germinale returns for its second edition, taking place from September 11 to October 12, 2025, at La Mercantile in Castagnole Monferrato. Entitled…

• Madrid Gallery Weekend 2025 Returns with 55 Galleries and New Initiatives festival-fair

  From September 11 to 14, 2025, the 16th edition of Apertura will take place during the Madrid Gallery Weekend, organized by Arte Madrid. This year, 55 galleries will present…

• Sharon Eyal's 'Delay the Sadness' Opens Torinodanza 2025 festival-fair

  The 2025 edition of the Torinodanza festival, directed by Anna Cremonini and organized by Teatro Stabile di Torino, opened on September 5 with the world premiere of Sharon Eyal's…