The Culture List: What to See, Do, and Visit for Fall 2026
In the Culture List column, we weigh in on tradition via the lens of vogue—together with what to know in occasions, journey, eating places, movies, artwork, music, and extra.
Fall is kicking off with a number of the most anticipated cultural moments of the yr which have the model set wanting to ebook flights and safe reservations on the buzziest new hotels. The Amanvari opening marks the primary Aman property to land in Mexico. Then there’s St. Clement, a brand new boutique lodge by Soho House founder Nick Jones, the place the model set checked in for London Fashion Week in September and can return to for Frieze Art Fair in October. For these looking for extra within the artwork international stage, buzzy exhibitions dot the seasonal calendar, together with the Guggenheim’s Pop Art showcase and a Roy Lichtenstein retrospective on the Whitney Museum.
Meanwhile, the upcoming releases of Practical Magic 2 and Sense and Sensibility will affect what everyone seems to be watching and speaking about within the coming months, together with the seems set to hit the red carpet for the press excursions. We additionally predict that Miley Cyrus’s freshly launched album is primed to be the soundtrack of the season and may say with certainty that Harry Styles’s Madison Square Garden residency is *the* ticket to get. Read on for Who What Wear’s top cultural highlights for fall 2026, together with all the pieces to see, do, and go to.
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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are becoming a member of forces once more because the cursed Owens sisters almost three a long time after the unique 1998 cult basic for the much-anticipated Practical Magic 2. This time, they’re joined by Joey King and Maisie Williams as the following era to ship a legacy sequel stuffed with all the identical romance and spells—and midnight margaritas.
Date: Out now
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Florence Pugh takes on literature’s most magnetic antiheroine, Cathy Ames, in Zoe Kazan’s seven-episode Steinbeck adaptation coming to Netflix queues this fall. Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist play the Trask brothers caught in her orbit, in a saga that spans the Civil War to WWI—and comes with a household footnote since Kazan’s grandfather Elia directed the 1955 movie.
Date: October 1
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Verity is the movie that is set to gentle up group chats all over the place this fall. Starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, the big-screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s darkish best-selling novel is a blood-and-secrets thriller that pins the 2 stars in opposition to each other, with Josh Hartnett caught in between.
Date: October 2
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Calling all Jane Austen followers. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles step into Elinor and Marianne Dashwood’s sneakers for Georgia Oakley’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. The Blue Jean director is understood for locating modern edges in interval items, so anticipate the story of affection and sisterhood to reach with a wholesome modern-day POV.
Date: October 16
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Each summer time and fall, the artwork international stage gathers in northern Italy for the Venice Biennale. It focuses on artwork and structure in alternating years, and that signifies that the 2026 exhibition is all about artwork. Conceived by the late Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh, this yr’s theme is titled In Minor Keys and leans on intimate, reflective, and sensory experiences that eschew the Biennale’s normal maximalism.
Dates: May 9 to November 22
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Frieze London is among the most necessary modern artwork festivals within the international stage. Founded in 2003, it showcases cutting-edge modern artwork from the international stage’s main galleries and has develop into a serious cultural second on London’s calendar every October.
Dates: October 14 to 18
Whether you are in it for the WAG outfits or contemplate your self a Formula One diehard, motorsport returns Stateside this October for the Austin, Texas–primarily based race. This yr, the calendar is bolstered by a brand new “Grand PrixView Thursday” preview day added to the schedule. Between the uphill blind Turn 1, the festival-scale live performance lineup, and Texas’s go-big hospitality scene, it is set to be a full takeover of town.
Dates: October 22 to 25
Basketball followers (and followers of courtside style) have their calendars marked for the NBA season tip-off. It’s the official begin of the 2026–27 common season, and the opening week will function particular marquee video games and three key matchups. Coming off of their first championship in over 50 years, the New York Knicks may have all eyes on them as they play the 76ers at house.
Date: October 20
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After an almost three-year hiatus, Harry Styles is again with a residency-style international stage tour that hits simply seven cities—Amsterdam, London, São Paulo, Mexico City, New York, Melbourne, and Sydney. The centerpiece is a 30-night run at Madison Square Garden, in help of his fourth album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. Shania Twain, Robyn, and Jamie xx are among the many friends becoming a member of him throughout stops.
Dates: Madison Square Garden residency now via October 31
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The Guts victory lap is formally behind her: Olivia Rodrigo kicks off a 65-date area run throughout North America and Europe, in help of You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. Wolf Alice, The Last Dinner Party, and Devon Again are alongside for the trip, with multi-night stops at L.A.’s Intuit Dome and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
Dates: Beginning September 25
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She’s dropped the final title and picked up a synth. Out now, Miley’s tenth album trades Something Beautiful‘s balladry for club-ready, new wave–adjoining pop with options from Model/Actriz and Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt. Two Hollywood Bowl exhibits are already set to observe in October, and the album is primed to develop into the soundtrack of the season.
Date: Out now
Saturday Night Live‘s beloved Bowen Yang is entering into the titular function of Cole Escola’s unhinged, gloriously deranged Oh, Mary! on Broadway. Yang takes over a component that is develop into a ceremony of passage for comedy’s high skills. If you wanted a motive to lastly get tickets, that is it: a grasp class in camp.
Dates: September 15 to December 5
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Marking what would’ve been the Pop Art icon’s a hundredth birthday, the Whitney’s retrospective gathers greater than 130 works by Roy Lichtenstein together with work, sculptures, drawings, and movie. The exhibit spans his profession, however relatively than an easy survey, it is constructed across the artist’s behavior of endlessly transforming his personal pictures.
Dates: October 11, 2026 to June 1, 2027
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A decade after the quiz-night chaos of Big Little Lies, writer Liane Moriarty returns to Monterey, this time centering Madeline’s, Celeste’s, and Jane’s now-teenage youngsters, plus a brand new thriller kicked off by a severed finger mailed to the varsity. It’s the writer’s first-ever sequel and reportedly simply as wickedly humorous and twisty as the unique. Read it now so you will be forward if—when—HBO produces it for TV.
Date: Out now
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The launch of the long-awaited third ebook within the Big Fan collection is right here, and it cements writer Alexandra Romanoff because the go-to in binge-able romantic fiction. With Vacation Self, anticipate the celebrity-romance style’s biggest hits: chaotic chemistry, quiet luxurious surroundings, and a will-they-won’t-they that unravels quick. Indie writer 831 Stories simply is aware of precisely what we wish to learn now.
Date: Out now
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Aman has formally landed in Mexico. Amanvari marks the hospitality model’s first property within the nation, and the sprawling oasis sits on the fringe of the Sea of Cortés on the secluded East Cape of Baja California Sur.
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St. Clement is the buzziest new lodge in London, and the primary solo lodge challenge by Soho House founder Nick Jones since 2022. It’s an intimate however well-designed hideout with interiors by Alex Eagle and Sophie Hodges, a brasserie by Danny Bohan of the River Café, and a soon-to-open rooftop from Florence Knight. Jones calls it “Claridge’s and Chiltern Firehouse had a child,” which tracks.
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What was as soon as a hideaway of Winston Churchill’s and Grace Kelly’s is now a gorgeously restored Four Seasons property. The Four Seasons Resort Mallorca at Formentor simply reopened earlier this yr with a wellness-forward refresh set in opposition to the resort’s 100-acre personal property, working winery, and cliffside coves on the Formentor Peninsula. “While it is a bit distant,” Who What Wear Creative Director Michaela Bushkin admits, “you will not even wish to depart the expansive property, so keep right here if you happen to’re in search of a real resort expertise.”
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The New York eating scene is flooded with newcomers proper now, however probably the most noteworthy amongst them is Oriana. The Nolita blowout is helmed by the duo behind the West Village’s Noortwyck and is, impressively, constructed round a sprawling wood-burning grill, full with a 7000-bottle cellar and a vinyl listening lounge curated by Rufus Wainwright.
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During Copenhagen Fashion Week this previous August, showgoers had a brand new deal with to descend upon within the Denmark capital: Henrik’s Hotel. The freshly opened lodge is outlined by its charming British Nordic inside design and the truth that it is located proper within the coronary heart of town close to Tivoli Gardens.
