Spur Happenings

04/06/2025

Making more magic in the desert. Back to Joshua Tree / 29 Palms.

🪩Stay tuned for more details on this exciting collaboration!

02/06/2025

The desert has been our muse lately. Architecture, art, design all confronting the dramatic landscape. 🏜️

Japan’s .ando tadao.ando & Mexico’s Luis Barragan ascetics oozing from these spaces in Utah - and certainly a dramatic nod to James Turrell.

❤️ART + ARCHITECTURE

09/05/2025

Work’n it — Hollywood 🎥😎🌴Love this town! Happy Friday.

08/05/2025

Have you been? Did you miss it? Did you miss it when you didn’t? Don’t do that again…🌴2025 Art Basel Miami - block out the week in your calendar (or diary if you are Euro/Aussie).

We will be there, you will be there. We will dance on the tables, gawk at the art, judge the outfits.

Join us for a whirl around the art fairs, a pool side mojito, a sighting of so and so as we collect art, friends and sand in our toes.

07/05/2025

SPUR HAPPENINGS PRESENTS: INSIDE ATHENS

July 3rd ~July 5th, 2025
Two (2) Days / Nights

We begin our Greek journey under a sultry Mediterranean sky, in a city where ancient ruins whisper to neon-lit streets. Led by insiders and cultural provocateurs, we’ll take a deep dive into Athens booming art scene ~ from the avant-garde underground and emerging artist’s studios to glittering, world-class galleries. Evenings will be punctuated by indulgent dinners where chefs, collectors, and curators converge over Greek wines and late-night philosophies.

🇬🇷FULLY INCLUSIVE OF:
⚡️Luxury accommodations in Athens for two (2) nights
⚡️Two fully immersive days and nights in Athens guest curated by some of Europe’s most connected art & culture insiders
⚡️Unparalleled, VIP access to Athens’ most compelling art galleries, artist studios and cultural institutions
⚡️Two fabulous long lunches featuring invited guest(s) from Athens’ thriving art & culture scene
⚡️Two indulgent, salon-style dinner parties featuring invited guest(s) from Athens’ thriving art & culture scene
Luxury ground transportation (excluding airport transfers)

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Art work image: Georgia Sagri, Deep Cut, 2020.
Installation view The Breeder Skin

Photo mural by Walid Hamadeh on Unsplash

Roof

Mural Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash

29/04/2025

insideLA - 14 June 2025

Los Angeles in June: light bleeds gold across the city, Jacaranda petals cling to your shoes, and the air thrums with the kind of heat that makes you believe anything could happen.

INSIDE | LA is a one-day, behind-the-scenes immersion into the city’s most vital contemporary art enclaves — intimate studio visits, hidden galleries, and radical spaces where the real experiments unfold. This is L.A. as seen through the lens of Spur: sun-drunk, off-script, and in conversation with the artists who are shaping its restless, shape-shifting identity.

Slip through unmarked doors and into rooms thick with pigment and possibility. We’ll hear from the artists themselves — no intermediaries, just raw insight and process. The city becomes our gallery, our playground, our unfinished canvas.

For those not ready to come down: the experience continues into the night with an optional dinner salon — irreverent, intoxicating, and very much in character. Think long tables, flowing wine, and the kind of conversation that only sparks when art meets appetite.

Fully inclusive of:
☀️Immersive day of art gallery, art institutions, and studio visits, thoughtfully curated by Los Angeles’s leading contemporary culture insiders
🍴Salon style lunch with special guests
🏎️Private ground transportation
🥂With optional artist’s dinner salon:
6:00 pm to late
🌴Private location to be shared with all confirmed salon participants

📸image: studio November 2024

29/04/2025

29/04/2025

INSIDE | SAN FRANCISCO
Saturday, June 7th, 2025

📸Mural by Michael Jang

San Francisco doesn’t play by the rules — and neither do its artists. In a city built on upheaval and imagination, a new generation is breaking down the barriers between art and audience. This isn’t decorative work — it’s disruptive. Restless. Unapologetically original.

You’re invited to join us for a thoughtfully curated deep dive into the city’s most daring galleries, boundary-pushing exhibitions, and intimate studio spaces. Trace the fault lines of a scene in flux — and meet the artists redefining it from the inside out.

All participants are also invited to join Spur Happenings’ signature dinner salon immediately following the program — for those who want to take the connection, conversation, and cultural exchange from day... into night.

Fully inclusive of:
⚡️Immersive day of art gallery, art institutions, and studio visits, thoughtfully curated by San Francisco’s leading contemporary culture insiders

⚡️Salon style lunch with special guests

⚡️Private ground transportation

🪩With optional artist’s dinner salon:
6:00 pm to late
Private location to be shared with all confirmed salon participants

19/04/2025

INSIDE | SF 🌁

Saturday, June 7th, 2025
11:00 am to 6:00 pm
San Francisco, California

+ 🌉DINNER SALON

San Francisco doesn’t play by the rules — and neither do its artists. In a city built on upheaval and imagination, a new generation is breaking down the barriers between art and audience. This isn’t decorative work — it’s disruptive. Restless. Unapologetically original. Art that challenges assumptions, confronts the moment, and refuses to be ignored.

“Marching to your own beat, I think, is actually what makes SF so great, and what makes my time here really meaningful.” — Jessica Silverman , December 23, 2024

You’re invited to join Spur Happenings for a thoughtfully curated deep dive into the city’s most daring galleries, boundary-pushing exhibitions, and intimate studio spaces.Trace the fault lines of a scene in flux — and meet the artists redefining it from the inside out.

FULLY INCLUSIVE OF:
⚡️Immersive day of art gallery, art institutions, and studio visits, thoughtfully curated by some of SF’s leading contemporary culture insiders
⚡️Salon style lunch with special guests
⚡️Private ground transportation will ensure every moment is as seamless as it is extraordinary
⚡️Optional Spur Happenings’ signature dinner salon



See link in bio for reservation details.

14/04/2025

INSIDE | NYC

Saturday, April 26th, 2025
11am to late
New York, New York

There’s a lot of chatter these days about how contemporary art has lost its bite. The critics claim it’s aimless, uninspired, and hopelessly stuck in reverse. Spur says: not so fast. We see something entirely different emerging—a wave of artists whose work is brimming with curiosity, depth, and unconventionality that reminds us why art matters.

This spring, New York—spiritual home of the contemporary art world—becomes our playground for this exploration. Over one provocative day and night, we’ll dive headlong into the heart of the scene, navigating both the establishment and rebellious upstarts. Together, we will investigate where the art world has been, where it’s headed, and why the future is, quite simply, now.

FULLY INCLUSIVE OF
🍎Unique, art inspired experiences, guest curated by leading contemporary culture insiders
🍎Private artists panel & discussion at the Salmagundi: Spur members Stephanie Duprie Routh and Dalya Sachs, along with olfactory artist Lula Curioca, present Memories of Youth/Grammar of Possibility, a collaborative multimedia installation and exhibition.
🍎Salon style lunch and
🍎Spur Happenings’ Signature Dinner Party at the Hotel Chelsea with special invited guests
🍎Private ground transportation will ensure every moment is as seamless as it is extraordinary

Optional hotel package available

Members see link in bio for more details

10/04/2025

an evening of
PERFORMANCE, PERSONA
and CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
with legendary survivor and author


Saturday, June 14th, 2025
Los Angeles, California

Space is limited to Spur Members. See link in bio for more details.

07/04/2025

Athens creates a different vibe, says gallerist Christina Androulidaki. “Artists are cheered on to take risks, challenge norms and dive into unchartered territories without worrying about being commercially successful,” she says, “therefore fostering a unique atmosphere where artistic exploration and pushing boundaries are celebrated rather than conforming to established norms.”

Spur Happenings Curated Member Travel
✈️ Join us!
Thursday, July 3rd – Monday, July 7th, 2025
Four (4) Days / Nights
🇬🇷Athens + Hydra, Greece

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