June ‘26 Edit
Guide to staying local. Here are places to be, books to read, and art to see.
01 — The Mood. No need to go far. June is a local affair.
02 — Where to Be.
New York. Romeo and Juliet, Delacorte, through June 28. The first staging there in nearly twenty years, directed by Saheem Ali, with LaChanze in the cast.
Chicago. Nathaniel Mary Quinn: A Love Letter to My Mother. Fragmented memory and composite portraits that feel more real than a photograph. A deeply personal retrospective of lineage and loss.
Los Angeles. Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at The Broad. Open through October. The room everyone will be talking about all summer.
Austin. Sable Elyse Smith: Clockwork at The Contemporary, Jones Center. Her first solo show in Texas. Neon, sculpture, video, the systems of power hidden in plain sight.
Miami. Woody De Othello: coming forth by day, Pérez Art Museum. Through June 28. Ceramics that animate the everyday, drawn from ritual objects across the African diaspora. Catch it before it closes.
Jackson Hole. The Center Benefit Concert, June 28. The Center for the Arts' annual outdoor fundraiser, this year with The California Honeydrops. The Oakland retro-soul band came up busking in BART stations and plays without a setlist - no two shows alike. Local food trucks, and a night that funds the year's creative programming.
Santa Fe. Indian Theater, SITE Santa Fe. Reopens June 5 with Candice Hopkins's landmark show on Native performance and self-determination since 1969.
…okay okay, if you insist on traveling…
Europe. Amsterdam. Danh Vo: πνεῦμα (Ἔλισσα), Stedelijk. Through Aug 2. Wood, stone, and metal as breathing fragments of history. Two decades of a language built on displacement, the personal woven into the geopolitical. Curated by Rein Wolfs and Claire van Els.
Central & South America. São Paul. Lux, Provisório Permanente at Galeria Nara Roesler. The Argentinian-Brazilian collective’s first solo show in Brazil, opens June 15.
Middle East & Africa. Dubai. Foad Hamzeh at The Lana. Six mirror-finish steel works by the Lebanese artist, Arabic calligraphy meets graffiti, set against the skyline. Through June 30. No gallery required.
Asia. Singapore. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness, Singapore Art Museum. Through Oct 4. Five decades of long exposures and longer silences. Seascapes split into water and sky. Theaters lit by a whole film on one frame. Go on a weekday, stand close.
ANZ. Brisbane. Olafur Eliasson: Presence, GOMA. Through July 12. Three decades of an artist who builds with water, light, and air. Riverbed turns the floor to rock and running water. Wear shoes you can move in.
03 — Who's in the Room.
Ziroru Studio. Founded by Iranian-American designer Shiva Farrokhi, the Brooklyn studio works from a Persian idea: سهل و ممتنع, effortless in appearance, complex in thought. Its debut collection Linea launched at ICFF in 2025, built on Bauhaus restraint and single-line drawings. The hero piece, the Glow Coffee Table, is one continuous steel tube that resolves into both a table and an integrated lamp. No glue, no screws, no welding. It won Domino's award for best coffee table of the year and a special mention in TIME's Best Inventions of 2025. Ziroru means "under and over." As an expression, transformation.
04 — The Month’s Whereabouts. #627 / spill the tea.
05 — To read. Classics. L’etranger, Albert Camus. Contemporary. A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles.
06 — Playlist. May mix for our garden karaoke party. Sorry neighbors!
07 — Exploration. June 21. The sun's in no hurry. Neither are you. Indoors is a crime.
A note on whereabouts
Whereabouts hosts monthly events to create community and culture. Each gathering takes a discipline as its premise and the room is curated person by person. We invite operators, makers, and thinkers chosen for what they pay attention to, and the work they bring with them.
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