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Opening tomorrow: HOWL, a new exhibition by Doug Aitken (@dougaitkenworkshop) at 303 Gallery.
Join us for the reception from 6-8pm, Friday, November 13.
A portrait of modern society, HOWL is an electric haiku culled from our contemporary industrial wilderness. A subtle ecological thread runs through HOWL: the arid desert is hammered by machines drilling relentlessly, their rhythm forming a musical composition of its own. The parched terrain becomes the backdrop to a ragged, restless energy. Like the movement of the derricks, repetition becomes a metaphor for modern life: do we stay in motion, repeating our actions, or find a way to break from patterns and change?
Doug Aitken: HOWL
November 13 – December 19, 2026
303 Gallery, New York
12 Nov 2026
HOWL, a new exhibition by Doug Aitken (@dougaitkenworkshop) opens at 303 Gallery this Friday, November 13. Reception 6-8pm
HOWL is a poignant examination of a remote desert town whose primary industry is oil drilling and poses pressing questions about our future in the twenty-first century. Through film, installation and sculpture, HOWL reflects on how we navigate our ideological and physical landscapes as we collectively evolve. Sculptural works within the exhibition act as guideposts leading viewers through the space. Figures emerge: an ice machine holding an ecosystem of live cactus; a bus stop becomes a viewing space for the moving images of HOWL.
Doug Aitken: HOWL
November 13 - December 19, 2026
303 Gallery, New York
07 Nov 2026
Join Doug @sfmoma in San Francisco this Thursday, October 29th for a rambling ambling presentation of past, present and future artworks.
The talk will cover an expansive practice that oscillates between film, installation, happenings, and site-specific work, unearthing the living histories within the artworks.
The presentation will explore how we turn the museum inside out, and how we create alternative forms of encountering art.
The talk begins at 6 PM, and tickets can be reserved at SFMoMA.org.
28 Oct 2026
Lightscape — the final hours.
We need culture more than ever right now, we need more oxygen and platforms for our voices to be heard. Culture is our tool to grow, thrive, and experiment, and without it we will suffocate.
An enormous thank you to everybody who has worked on and contributed to Lightscape.
The project was truly an open canvas for so many collaborations. Bravo to the amazing individuals and fellow freaks who fought to create this multi-platform project. Spanning from unique collaborations with musicians, co-produced by the LA, Philharmonic, and LA Master Chorale.
Thanks to The Shed and Marciano Art Foundation and many more. To our studio and film crew who embraced the wild improvisatory approach to filmmaking the work required. You all made this work and we created it together!
Peace, Doug
Lightscape is on view at the Shed in NYC until this Sunday, September 13th. Lightscape the soundtrack is now available on vinyl from London's The Vinyl Factory, as well as streaming everywhere.
@theshedny @laphil @lamasterchorale @pioneerworks @thevinylfactory @nowness
12 Sep 2026
Lightscape:
The physical and digital, animal and human, fragmented and interconnected cohabitate in the same space.
Like the deepest folk tales, these tensions continue without resolution. It returns us to elemental questions: How do we find our way? What are we hungry for? When does a promise become captivity, and when does the observer become the observed?
Lightscape is on view at the Shed in NYC until this Sunday, September 13th.
Lightscape the soundtrack is now available on vinyl from London's The Vinyl Factory, as well as streaming everywhere.
@theshedny @laphil @lamasterchorale @pioneerworks @thevinylfactory @nowness
11 Sep 2026
One week remaining — please join us for Lightscape at The Shed in NYC.
Jamie xx will create a special closing-night performance with a live improvisational performance inside the artwork, activating Lightscape as part of The Shed's 2026 Gala After-party on September 17.
Visit the theshed.org for more information on ticketing.
@theshedny @jamie___xx @sunraarkestraofficial @pioneerworks
06 Sep 2026
Video Art Visions: American artist Doug Aitken captures characters searching for meaning, reflection, and place in Tremaine House, designed by Richard Neutra, for the experimental short film ‘Lightscape - Open House’
Taken from the hour-long feature ‘Lightscape’, a film-based installation on view at @theshedny, the experimental short captures a cycle of youth and age as characters merge with their surroundings, evolving into a vulnerable, humanistic study of the shifting state of modern life
Doug Aitken's 'Lightscape' is on view at The Shed in New York City until 13 September
London’s Vinyl Factory is currently releasing Aitken’s original score Lightscape on vinyl, and it is available on streaming platforms everywhere
Tap the link in bio to watch the full film on NOWNESS 🎬
Director @dougaiktenworkshop
Music @bjarkore
@theshedny
28 Aug 2026
“Lightscape captures the fading dreams and mythologies of the past: how do we find meaning and identity in this rapidly changing world?”
American artist Doug Aitken studies connection, self-reflection, and the shifting state of modern life from Richard Neutra’s modernist architecture in Montecito, California, a private residence never before used as a filming location
Taken from the hour-long feature Lightscape – a film-based installation on view at The Shed in New York City, the experimental short ‘Lightscape - Open House’ captures a cycle of youth and age as characters merge with their surroundings
Playing with light, shadow, and reflections cast by the house’s extensive glass walls and kaleidoscopic mirrors, Aitken captures his characters in a shared sense of self-reflection and desire to connect with the histories and lives of those around them
Doug Aitken's 'Lightscape' is on view at The Shed in New York City until 13 September
London’s Vinyl Factory is currently releasing Aitken’s original score Lightscape on vinyl, and it is available on streaming platforms everywhere
Tap the link in bio to watch the full film on NOWNESS 🎬
Director @dougaiktenworkshop
Music @bjarkore
@theshedny
28 Aug 2026
Shot inside the Richard Neutra-designed Tremaine House in Montecito, California, a private residence never before used as a filming location, American artist Doug Aitken captures a modernist home inhabited by characters searching for meaning, reflection, and place in ‘Lightscape - Open House’ 🏡
Taken from the hour-long feature 'Lightscape', a new film-based installation on view at @theshedny, the experimental short captures a cycle of youth and age as characters merge with their surroundings, guided through surreal visual and sonic landscapes, scored by the LA Master Chorale and the LA Phil, with Icelandic performer Bjarki
Doug Aitken's 'Lightscape' is on view at The Shed in New York City until 13 September
London’s Vinyl Factory is currently releasing Aitken’s original score Lightscape on vinyl, and it is available on streaming platforms everywhere
Tap the link in bio to watch the full film on NOWNESS 🎬
Director @dougaiktenworkshop
Music @bjarkore
@theshedny
28 Aug 2026
Lightscape - out today - the Spotify streaming premiere of our new album of original music.
A nine-track song cycle blending human voice with kinetic electronic soundscapes, born from improvisational recording sessions between Doug and the LA Master Chorale, and conductor Grant Gershon — building from a single voice into a chorus of 50+ singers.
The sessions also sparked Aitken's Lightscape film and multiscreen installation, on view at The Shed in New York through September 13.
Stream the album now.
@dougaitkenworkshop @lamasterchorale @laphil
22 Aug 2026
What do words mean?
15 Aug 2026
The Sun Ra Arkestra lands in Lightscape this Thursday for a once-in-a-lifetime, cosmic free-form jazz transmission reinterpreting Doug Aitken's artwork.
For over 70 years, the Arkestra has rewritten the rules of music — fusing jazz, free improvisation, and Afrofuturist mythology into musical soundscapes. Led by the legendary 102-year-old Marshall Allen, The Sun Ra Arkestra conjure a hypnotic, otherworldly experience.
Find out why "space is the place" this Thursday, August 13th at 8 PM at The Shed NYC. Please visit theshed.org for more info on ticketing.
@sunraarkestra @theshedny @pioneerworks
08 Aug 2026
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