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FESTIVAL
Lights at Year's End
Among the Countless Illuminations Closing Out the Year
India
Diwali 2026
Millions of lamps illuminate cities across India for Diwali, the country’s famed festival of lights. During the five-day celebration, streets and doorsteps are adorned with rangoli — intricate patterns of colored sand and flower petals — while lamps and fireworks light up the night. Dream of new beginnings and abundance in a holiday grounded in the belief that good triumphs over evil, just as light defeats the darkness.
- 11.6 - 11.10
© Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam’s canals become vast canvases painted with light. For its 15th edition this year, the festival takes visitors on an entirely new route, as light art by global artists sets the city aglow after dark. Take in these brilliant creations while walking or cycling along the waterfront or join an open boat tour for a closer view of the lights glittering on the water.
- 11.26 - 2027.1.17
Edinburgh
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 2026
Edinburgh rings in a typical Scottish New Year, or Hogmanay, with four days of celebrations. The festivities begin with a torchlight procession through the streets and reach their climax at midnight on New Year’s Eve with fireworks over Edinburgh Castle. The revelry continues on the first day of the New Year with quirky traditions like the Loony Dook, a brave plunge into freezing water.
- 12.29 - 2027.1.1
TECH
Lisbon
Web Summit 2026
This major European tech conference brings together startup founders, investors and tech executives from around the world. Four days of lectures and meetups are organized into 17 tracks such as AI, finance and wellness tech, while after dark, the conversation moves to bars and restaurants across Lisbon for Night Summit networking events. With a star-studded lineup of industry leaders and cultural figures, Web Summit draws some 70,000 attendees from over 160 countries each year.
- MEO Arena, Lisbon
- 11.9 – 11.12
Kuala Lumpur
SIGGRAPH Asia 2026
One of the world’s largest conferences for computer graphics and interactive technologies is coming to Malaysia for the first time. Now in its 19th edition, SIGGRAPH Asia is a prime networking opportunity for professionals from the fields of CG, XR and AI, featuring events such as presentations of the latest research, live demonstrations of cutting-edge technology and the Computer Animation Festival.
- Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
- 12.1 - 12.4
Art
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Gyeonggi
Art Spectrum 2026: ARoomWhereEveryRadioIsTunedtoDifferentStations
One of the world’s largest conferences for computer graphics and interactive technologies is coming to Malaysia for the first time. Now in its 19th edition, SIGGRAPH Asia is a prime networking opportunity for professionals from the fields of CG, XR and AI, featuring events such as presentations of the latest research, live demonstrations of cutting-edge technology and the Computer Animation Festival.
- HOAM Museum of ART
- 9.1 - 12.27
Seoul
Sol LeWitt: Open Structure
Korea’s first solo exhibition devoted to conceptual art pioneer Sol LeWitt is an expansive survey bringing together 45 works that include wall drawings, structures, paintings, photographs, prints and archival material. His signature wall drawings, which reinterpret walls as canvases to be covered with lines, colors and geometric forms, are adapted for this exhibition space according to the artist’s written instructions.
- Amorepacific Museum of Art
- 9.1 - 2027.2.28
San Francisco
Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective
Leading Korea’s Dansaekhwa (monochrome painting) move¬ment, Ha Chonghyun expanded painting into an encounter between body and material. He developed the baeapbeop (“back-pressure”) technique: forcing a thick layer of paint through the fibers of a burlap sack. This major retrospective presents six decades of Ha’s paintings alongside works made through cutting and wrapping, offering a multifaceted view of how he pushed the boundaries of painting.
- Asian Art Museum
- 9.25 – 2027.1.25
© 2026 Whitney Museum of American Art
New York
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New
This exhibition is a sweeping look at the work of Roy Lichtenstein, a defining artist of the first generation of Pop Art. Around 130 works on display reveal how Lichtenstein brought the visual language of popular culture into the realm of fine art, shifting fluidly between such forms as painting, drawing and collage. His exploration of the potential of images well before the digital era invites us to revisit the relationship between images and art.
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- 10.11 – 2027.5.10
© 2026 Whitney Museum of American Art
Tokyo
Mariko Mori: All That Shines
From her 1990s cyborg imagery to Buddhist cosmology and public art, this exhibition brings together Mariko Mori’s oeuvre. The retro¬spective presents large-scale installations as well as photos and videos combining computer graphics and performance art. Interactive works — such as one rendering viewers’ brain waves — offer a firsthand encounter with Mori’s exploration of technology, spirituality and the body.
- Mori Art Museum
- 10.31 – 2027.3.28
Korea
Gimhae
Gimhae Buncheong Ceramics Festival
In Gimhae, a city of pottery steeped in the heritage of the ancient Gaya confederacy (42 – 532), this festival offers an up-close encounter with Korea’s ceramic tradition. Local potters exhibit and sell their wares, while visi¬tors are introduced to traditional buncheong techniques, considered the archetype of Korean ceramics. Through hands-on activities such as wheel throwing and kiln firing demonstrations, take a chance to appreciate the distinctive beauty of buncheong stoneware.
- 11.6 - 11.10
Busan
Busan International Film Festival
This innovative event is among Korea’s first film festivals devoted to AI production. Under the slogan “Everyone’s Imagination. One Big Launch,” this year’s festival represents AI as a creative partner that can expand our imagination. Alongside screenings, the three-day program comprises conversations with creators, forums on AI filmmaking techniques and an awards ceremony. All events are free of charge.
- 12.3 - 12.5
Seoul
Seoul Winter Festival
Dazzling lights and cultural acti-vities are set to transform downtown Seoul this holiday season. A colorful lineup of festive events unfolds across the city, including the Seoul Light media art exhibition, the Christmas-themed Gwanghwamun Market, the Seoul Lantern Festival on the Cheonggyecheon Stream and the traditional bell-ringing ceremony at Bosingak Pavilion on New Year’s Eve.
- 12.11 - 2027.1.31
