A little flashback from my birthday in the Venetian sunshine ☀️🌹 Thank you everyone who reached out that day and shared their love 💕
This birthday feels less about candles and more about gratitude and love for the people, art, and unexpected moments that brought me here. There were moments this past year where I truly didn’t know how things would unfold, but somehow life continued to place beautiful people, meaningful conversations, and unexpected opportunities in my path.
After everything it took to bring LOOK UP from Times Square to Venice, this moment reminded me how important it is to pause, breathe, heal, and appreciate how far you’ve come, even when the road has not been easy.
Celebrating in the rose garden during the opening week of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia felt like a beautiful pause in the middle of an unforgettable journey.
Grateful for the sunshine, the conversations, the art, the friendships, and the reminder to always LOOK UP. ✨
And then I discovered another little poetic coincidence, the legendary Cipriani story began on May 13th as well, the same birthday I share. Giuseppe Cipriani opened the iconic Harry’s Bar in Venice on May 13, 1931, beginning a legacy that would forever become part of Venetian history! WOW 💕
#lookup #lookuptimessquare #hotelciprianivenice #rosegardens
Venice is like a dream and today it felt like a special gift. 🎂🇮🇹It was about the simple magic of the water. 🌊 The local dolphin Mimmo came for a birthday special visit, and it was so incredibly special to watch him glide across the canal bringing that light... and intuitive dolphin energy into this next chapter of life! 🐬✨
It’s a beautiful reminder that no matter how fast the world moves, there’s always room for a little wonder. I am so incredibly grateful for my all friends around the globe who make every journey more meaningful and for all the beautiful birthday wishes. My heart is so full of love💖.
#VeniceBiennale #Mimmo #grateful #birthdaymagic
Still taking in the beauty and emotion of these past days in Venice.
LOOK UP TIMES SQUARE officially opened at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia at Palazzo Mora as part of Personal Structures with the European Cultural Centre and the exhibition will continue through November 22nd as part of this extraordinary global cultural moment.
Venice during the Biennale becomes more than a city — it transforms into a living ecosystem of art, ideas, humanity, creativity, conversation, collectors, museums, foundations, fashion, film, and cultural exchange from around the world. There is truly nothing else like it.
What made this even more meaningful for me personally was that earlier this April, at the annual gala hosted by The Perfect World Foundation in Sweden, I publicly spoke for the first time about the deeper meaning and origins behind LOOK UP. I also had the honor of introducing Sebastian Vettel, who was honored with the foundation’s award, joining a remarkable legacy of past honorees including Jane Goodall, David Attenborough, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, and many other global voices dedicated to conservation, humanity, and positive change.
To now see LOOK UP evolve from Times Square to Venice often called the “Olympics of the Art World” is something I will never forget. @introxpert9@ecc_italy@tpw_foundation@sebastianvettel
Deep gratitude to every artist, participant, supporter, sponsor, friend, and believer who helped make this possible. This journey is only beginning.
My video for LOOK UP is presented in the exhibition with a small selection of this video...using my voice and 100s of other creative industry participants for LOOK UP to continue travel around the world. 🌎
The Biennale Preview week is now over and everything is open to public for the next seven months until November 22nd- stay tuned for more news soon!
#LOOKUP #LaBiennaleDiVenezia #VeniceBiennale #curatingaroundtheworld @labiennale
Venice arrival!! Installation day and look at our gorgeous exhibition window view!!! LOOK UP ⬆️ Gearing up! @introxpert9
LOOK UP TIME SQUARE announces LOOK UP VENICE. Following its debut across the iconic screens of Times Square, LOOK UP expands as part of Personal Structures: Confluences exhibition. With a special window in Palazzo Mora exhibition room, LOOK UP VENICE bridges continents and creative disciplines. LOOK UP TIMES SQUARE TO VENICE transforms Palazzo Mora into a living archive of global voices and a space for contemplation and creativity. The art exhibition features curated contemporary artworks alongside a series of one-minute films responding to the question: “What does LOOK UP mean to you?” Contributions come from leading global creative figures across art, fashion, film and culture presented through a dynamic multi-screen installation, alongside artworks by nine contemporary artists. This next chapter invites viewers to pause, reflect and reconnect with themselves, with one another and with the world around them. #palazzomora #europeanculturalcentre #venicebienalle2026
Our window looks up and out to @orientexpress.venezia 💕🙌🤍
Grateful beyond words to have introduced Sebastian Vettel at the The Perfect World Foundation Awards — a true force using his voice to protect our planet and future. 🌍✨
A deep and heartfelt thank you to the founders of TPWF for creating such an important global platform — one that continues to raise awareness and drive real action to protect wildlife, biodiversity, and our natural world.
Sharing the story of LOOK UP — from Times Square to a global movement — reminded me how powerful it is when we choose to uplift one another, to connect, and to create with purpose.
To be surrounded by such extraordinary people, all committed to protecting our animals, our oceans, and our earth, is something I will never take for granted.
This is not about saving something outside of ourselves.
It is about remembering that we are the ecosystem.
Every action. Every choice. Every moment of awareness. We do together in choice.
Think inspire… look inward — “in” you are the spire… INSPIRE.
So LOOK UP—
and recognize the beauty that still exists,
the responsibility we all share,
and the power we hold to ensure that future generations continue to hold life and LOOK UP.
Because the world continues to call for those willing to protect it.
Together, we rise. Together, we protect. Together, we LOOK UP.
💚🐘🌊
#LOOKUP #TPWF #SebastianVettel #gratitude
Thank you and graditude to @naeemkhannyc for making the magic of this incredible dress. To @stanleycasselman1 for your artistry.
🙌 📸 Photos: Petra Bjorstad @petrabjorstad@makebymagi.ronja for making the magic of beauty come alive 💄
@tpw_foundation for your welcome, friendship and continued work
@tpwf_award 🙏 To @sebastianvettel for your inspiration and dedication to our planet and world 🌍 💫
LOOK UP emerged from a deeply personal tragedy in my life and has grown into a powerful platform for the voices of many. It came out of my own desire to know what it meant to others and turned the question to the creatives in my life to answer. I am deeply grateful for the journey as it continues to unfold to Venice. 🛶 100 Voices from across the globe. 🌎
Calder transformed the act of viewing into something physical, spatial, and alive. His suspended mobiles invite the eye upward not just as a direction, but as an experience—one that is constantly shifting, never fixed. In looking up at his work, we surrender control. The composition moves beyond the artist’s hand and into the realm of air, chance, and time.
KEEP LOOKING UP! 👀
There is a difference between being seen
and needing to be the center of everything.
One expands you.
The other isolates you.
LOOK UP—beyond the self, beyond the noise.
You are part of something greater, not the axis of it.
I curate to bring people together, artists, friends, community and to expand a conversation greater than all of us. 🎵
A beautiful stop in to see the exhibition:
Buddha and Shiva Lotus and Dragon
Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy
"Human beings… we can’t hold on to them in any way.” Elizabeth Peyton, Interview Magazine - a beautiful exhibition titled mountains in my heart (the death of Sarpedon).
To dance on her floor was a dream come true 🙌🏻
From a very young age, Martha Graham inspired me. Her devotion to movement, truth, and the raw language of the body showed me that art is not only something we create, it is something we live through.
Today I was reminded that we often measure our days by how relevant we are to work, deadlines, and productivity. But what if we also asked another question: How relevant was today to my soul? To my heart?
Art, dance, and creativity invite us back to that place where expression becomes a form of breathing and presence becomes the real achievement.
Sometimes the most meaningful work we can do is simply to reconnect with what moves us. 🩰
Keep looking ⬆️ UP! @marthagrahamdance
LOOK UP: Times Square expands to Venice this coming May. 🇮🇹
I’m deeply grateful to bring LOOK UP to the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, presented at Palazzo Mora as part of Personal Structures: Confluences, organized by the European Cultural Centre. Thank you to the ECC for inviting me to curate LOOK UP and continue to travel this movement around the globe. 🌏
LOOK UP began in Times Square in 2025 with a simple question I asked creatives from around the world: What does LOOK UP mean to you? What started as a digital public art moment across the billboards of Times Square has grown into a global creative dialogue one that brings together art, technology, storytelling and human connection.
In Venice, we gather an extraordinary group of artists whose work reflects awareness, elevation and the invisible threads that connect us across cultures. Featured contemporary artists artworks include Nathan Brujis, Karen Bystedt x Shepard Fairey, Micheline Klagsbrun, Roald Bradstock, Rossella Vasta, Arturo Casanova, Lindsey Nobel and Matt Engers.
Also presented in the exhibition, more than 100 voices from across the global creative community share one-minute reflections responding to the question “What does LOOK UP mean to you?” Participants include Michel Haddi, Andy Gotts, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Gordana Biernat, Helene Beck, Greg Miller of Dance Parade, Nikki Haskell, Max Tucci, Laura Geller, Kreemart, Juan Garaizabal, Diane Detalle and many more.
Presented within the historic Palazzo Mora, a 300 year old historical space from May 9 – November 22, 2026, this next chapter of LOOK UP continues the conversation across continents inviting us all to pause, lift our gaze and remember our shared connections.
Venice, a city where sky meets water, reminds us why we must always LOOK UP.
#LOOKUP #LOOKUPTimesSquare #VeniceBiennale #VeniceBiennale2026
