Our Luxury Calendar provides a comprehensive overview of the top events unfolding around the world every month. Some are micro-luxuries (like a really good book) and others are on a grand, epic scale. It’s great fun to compile, and as we polish off our research we always dream a little dream about the entries that most intrigue or excite us – the ones we most passionately want to be a part of. If schedules and money were no object, and we could participate in our top picks in the world of luxury for December 2018, here’s what they’d be. How about you?
our top picks in the world of luxury for December
It’s hard to narrow the list down to just 10, but here goes.
we want to hear:
The New York Philharmonic perform Handel’s Messiah at Lincoln Center – December 12 – 15, 2018
David Geffen Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic
we want to see:
The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Julia Wolfe’s oratorio Anthracite Fields alongside the Choir of Trinity Wall Street at Carnegie Hall. Her work conjures the hardscrabble coal-mining life of early-twentieth-century Pennsylvania – December 1, 2018
The Bang on a Can All-Stars
The Jeweled Isle: Art from Sri Lanka. No American museum has ever previously mounted a survey of Sri Lankan art. So the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is breaking new ground as it brings together 250 artworks spanning nearly 2,000 years of the country’s history with this exhibition. The show will feature precious decorative objects and 19th-century photographs depicting the country’s landscape – December 9, 2018 – June 23, 2019
The long-awaited and much-discussed Aaron Sorkin adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway at the Shubert Theater. Jeff Daniels is Atticus Finch, and Bartlett Sher directs – December 13, 2018
Jeff Daniels in the Broadway adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird
we want to read:
North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farahone, the latest from one of Somalia’s most celebrated novelists. Its the story of a Somalian family in Norway. Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they raised their two children, for decades. After their son, Dhaqaneh, joins a radical movement in Somalia, they take in his wife and children and attempt to cope with the aftermath of their son’s actions – Publication date December 4, 2018
we want to check out:
Art Basel Miami, where leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and other works of the highest quality are on display in the main exhibition hall. And the parties and the people-watching are legendary! – December 6 – 9, 2018
Art Basel Miami 2018
The three days of Olympic-caliber skiing on display from the best female alpine skiers in the world at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland – December 8 – 9, 2018
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Race heads north out of Sydney Harbour before turning right towards Hobart, Tasmania, some 628 nautical miles away. The Hobart Village is a wonderful place to take in the fireworks on New Year’s Eve – December 26, 2018 – January 1, 2019
The Rolex Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race
we want to check into:
The InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, the world’s first underground hotel. It’s set to receive guests after a decade of construction; the property is located inside a formerly abandoned quarry nearly 20 miles from Shanghai – December 1, 2018
The exterior of the Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland
we want a taste of:
The annual Habits de Lumiere in Epernay, France (the capital of Champagne). The “clothes of light” celebration will include three days of events, drinks and food along the famous Avenue de Champagne. Many of the major Champagne houses will be open to the public. They’ll be hosting Champagne bars, illuminations and tastings. It all concludes with a spectacular fireworks display – December 14 – 16, 2018
Wow – what a month it could be! Those are our top picks in the world of luxury for December. Whatever you decide to do, have fun out there.
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