Luxury Calendar October Arts

Performing Arts.

• The 14^th annual Fall for Dance Festival at City Center will see the premiere of a new ballet by Mark Morris, a new works from Michelle Dorrance, and performances by the Miami City Ballet and NYC Ballet Principal dancer Sara Mearns – Oct 2-14
• Crossing is a chamber opera based on the war diaries of Walt Whitman; Rod Gilfry stars as Whitman in this production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music – Oct 3
• The New York City Ballet fall season continues, with a reprise of four works from the Here/Now festival (Oct 3 & 7) and an all-Balanchine program (Oct 5-6 & 14-15). Catch a performance of Not Our Fate, the newest work from our Dandelion Chandelier Luminary, Principal Dancer and choreographer Lauren Lovette, on Oct 4, 13 and 14
• The Carnegie Hall season opens with the Philadelphia Orchestra playing works by Leonard Bernstein to honor his centennial; the performance will include the Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront and the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story – Oct 4
• At the Park Avenue Armory, Repons by Pierre Boulez is a “spatial masterwork” rarely performed in concert halls, given its unconventional audience configuration: each piece is performed twice in succession, and the audience changes seats in between to gain a “new sonic perspective” – Oct 6-7
• The Apollo Theater in Harlem presents We Shall Not be Moved, an opera directed by Bill T. Jones inspired by a 1985 standoff between the police and the black liberation group MOVE in Philadelphia – Oct 6-7
• The Music Hall of Cincinnati reopens after a renovation with a concert of works by Beethoven, John Adams and Scriabin – Oct 6-7
• The New York Dance and Performance Awards – the “Bessies,” the dance world’s equivalent of the Tonys and Oscars – will be presented at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts; nominees are from the world of modern dance and ballet – Oct 9
• The CDMX Festival hosted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic will feature music of today’s Mexico City, including film music, chamber music and organ grinders – Oct 9-17
• At the Lanvellec and Trégor Music Festival in Brittany – which features Baroque music – period instruments played by great artists can be heard in beautiful surroundings; each concert is given in a church, chapel, cathedral or theatre with excellent acoustics. The festival originated in 1986 as a way to celebrate the Dallam’s Organ, a baroque gem built in 1653 – Oct
• The American Symphony Orchestra is devoting its Carnegie Hall season to music related to politics; the series kicks off with The Sounds of Democracy, featuring works by Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, and Leonard Bernstein – Oct 11
• The New York Early Music Celebration focuses this year on Holland and Flanders – performances happen all over the city – Oct 13-22
• In Left-Right-Left at the Japan Society in New York, director and choreographer Luca Veggetti explores noh theater, a traditional dramatic Japanese form – Oct 13-14
• The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra premieres a new violin concerto from Andrew Norman, performed by Jennifer Koh – Oct 14-15
• The American Ballet Theatre opens its 13-performances-only fall season at the David Koch Theater with the world premiere of a new ballet by Alexei Ratmansky with a score by Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov; there will be two other world premieres, as well – Oct 18-29
• The theme of the annual White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, the mission of which is an “exploration of the power of art to illuminate our interior and communal lives,” is faith: the festival will feature the Monteverdi Choir; Layla and Majnun, a new work by choreographer Mark Morris based on a Persian love story; an exploration of the musical aftereffects of the slave trade by Jordi Savall, The Routes of Slavery; and The Psalms Experience, four internationally acclaimed choirs performing all 150 psalms in a series of 12 concerts in venues across the city – Oct 18–Nov 15
• As part of Carnegie Hall’s Festival of International Orchestras, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome will make its debut at the theater, performing the Sinfonia that Verdi wrote for the La Scala premiere of Aida and Respighi’s rarely-performed Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome. Martha Argerich returns to Carnegie Hall after a nine-year absence to play Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3—one of her specialties – Oct 20
• The Shanghai International Arts Festival is a wide-ranging annual event featuring local and international plays, concerts, and music and dance performances at various locations throughout the city – Oct 20-Nov 19
• The New York Philharmonic will survey three of Leonard Bernstein’s symphonies in a trio of programs conducted by Alan Gilbert and Leonard Slatkin – Oct 25-Nov 14
• The Metropolitan Opera presents the American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, inspired by the classic Luis Buñuel film of the same name. Hailed by the New York Times at its 2016 Salzburg Festival premiere as “inventive and audacious … a major event,” The Exterminating Angel is a surreal fantasy about a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape – Oct 26-Nov 21
• British choreographer Matthew Bourne stages his adaptation of the 1948 film The Red Shoes at City Center; the lead role will be performed by three dancers, including Sara Mearns of the NYC Ballet – Oct 26-Nov 5
• Jazz at Lincoln Center continues its 30^th anniversary celebration with a performance by cabaret icon Marilyn Maye and the Tedd Firth Big Band in the Appel Room – Oct 27-28
• The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Leonard Bernstein’s song cycle Arias and Barcarolles – Oct 29

Visual Arts.

• An outdoor piece from artist Sheila Hicks will be unveiled this month in the gardens of Versailles
• Items: Is Fashion Modern? is the first fashion exhibit at the MoMA in New York since 1944; it features 111 influential fashion pieces – Oct 1
• Yayoi Kusama, one of Japan’s most celebrated artists, is opening her own museum in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo; the five-story building designed by Kume Sekkei will solely feature Ms. Kusama’s work; the first exhibition, Creation Is a Solitary Pursuit, Love Is What Brings You Closer to Art, will feature a recent series of paintings, My Eternal Soul – Oct 1-Feb 25, 2018
• The Dallas Museum of Art will showcase its recently-acquired work by Yayoi Kusama, an “Infinity Mirror Room” installation titled All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016). Originally on view last year at Victoria Miro Gallery in London, the work is Kusama’s first mirror-room work featuring her pumpkin sculptures since 1991, and is comprised of a series of acrylic yellow gourds covered in black polka dots – Oct 1- Feb 25, 2018
• The highly-anticipated Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Paris will be the city’s first museum of its scale dedicated to a great couturier of the 20^th century; it will be located in the hôtel particulier at 5 avenue Marceau where Yves Saint Laurent spent nearly thirty years designing his collections (from 1974 to 2002) – October 3
• The Art of Pastel – From Degas to Redon at the Petit Palais in Paris will feature the best of the museum’s permanent collection, in many cases seen for the first time (due to the fragile nature of pastels, many of these works rarely see the light of day); paintings by Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, and Odilon Redon, most from 1850 to 1914, are among the highlights – Oct 4-April 8, 2018
• Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection at the Met Fifth Avenue will include 55 works on paper from da Vinci, Durer, Matisse, Seurat, and Rembrandt – Oct 4-Jan 7, 2018
• The Vietnam War 1945-1975 at the New York Historical Society Museum brings together documents like the Pentagon Papers, protest art, film clips and artifacts related to America’s involvement in Vietnam – Oct 4-April 22, 2018
• Andre Derain 1904-1914: The Radical Decade at the Centre Pompidou focuses on paintings by the artist prior to his service during WW1, including works he painted alongside Matisse; there will be 70 paintings, as well as works on paper and sculptures – Oct 4-Jan 29, 2018
• Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston will showcase 25 years of the artist’s work, accompanied by a soundtrack of birdsong; the immersive installation will include sculpture – Oct 4-Jan 1, 2018
• The New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery’s Inventing Downtown New York: Artist-Run Galleries, 1952–1965 will bring a major collection of historical artworks organized by the Grey Art Gallery, New York University’s fine art museum to Abu Dhabi for an investigation of the New York art scene between the peak of Abstract Expressionism in the early 1950s and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism in the early 1960s – Oct 4
• Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World at the Guggenheim in New York covers the period between the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the global financial crisis, showing 150 works by 75 artists and collectives; a program of 20 documentary films is part of the exhibit – Oct 6-Jan 7, 2018
• Liz Glynn: The Archaeology of Another Possible Future at MassMOCA in North Adams is handmade replicas of famous artworks and ancient artifacts that question the relationship between physical objects and historical narratives; it’s in a gallery the length of a football field — Oct 7-Sept 4, 2018
• Wild Spaces, Open Seasons: Hunting and Fishing in American Art at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas is a traveling exhibition that surveys the subject from the early 19th century to WW2; featured artists include Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth – Oct 7-Jan 7, 2018
• Dalí / Duchamp at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, will put the two artists – the towering figures of Surrealism and Dada, respectively – into in conversation through their work; paintings by the French visionary will hang alongside works by Dalí, with his Surrealist objects bearing striking similarities to Duchamp’s readymades. The artists were personal friends, and correspondence between the two will also be on display – Oct 7–Jan 3, 2018
• Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil at the Art Institute of Chicago is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a US museum; it focuses on the 1920s, when she promoted modernism in Brazil – Oct 8-Jan 7, 2018; the exhibit moves to MoMA Feb 11-June 3, 2018
• The Bass Museum of contemporary art in Miami reopens after a 2-year renovation with an exhibit of works by Ugo Rondinone – Oct 8
• The Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris will mount a show on the history of New York’s MoMA – over 200 works will be on loan – Oct 11
• Modernism on the Ganges at the Met Breuer showcases the work of photographer Raghubir Singh, who took panoramic shots of every life in India – Oct 11-Jan 2, 2018
• Judith Bernstein: Cabinet of Horrors at the Drawing Center in New York presents new large-scale drawings and paintings on paper with text elements that are verbatim quotes from the President and his Cabinet members –Oct 12-Jan 21, 2018
• In New York, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei embarks upon his most ambitious public art work to date: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors is a meditation on boundaries expressed through a variety of outdoor sculptural installations across the five boroughs – Oct 12
• Mechanisms is one of the largest shows ever mounted by the CCA Wattis Institute in SF — twenty artists including Louise Lawler and William Pope.L contribute 100 works on the theme of disruption — Oct 12-Feb 24
• Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost creates videos that mimic memories and the way they spark the imagination — her latest exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will include a theatrical performance in collaboration with RPI’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center — Oct 12-Feb 11, 2018
• Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma at the Menil Collection in Houston features almost 50 of the Palestinian artist’s works — her sculptures and installations address issues of displacement and exile — Oct 13-Feb 25, 2018
• Ofrendas at the Detroit Institute of Arts will showcase the 5-10 foot altars made by local artists to celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead – Oct 13-Nov 12
• The Freer Sackler Museum reopens Oct 14
• In the first-ever West Coast exhibition of the artist’s work, the Legion of Honor at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco will mount a Gustav Klimt retrospective, featuring a number of works that are making their first-ever appearances in the US. The exhibition will pair works from the artist those of with his contemporary Auguste Rodin: it will include 25 Rodin sculptures and 33 works by Klimt, including 17 paintings – Oct 17
• Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston juxtaposes working from the contemporary artist with pieces from the museum’s collection of older Japanese art – Oct 18-April 1, 2018
• Dalí & Schiaparelli at The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida explores the friendship and frequent collaboration between artist Salvador Dalí and fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli; the exhibition will include a selection of haute couture gowns, along with paintings, drawings, photographs, objects, accessories and jewelry – Oct 18
• François I and Dutch Art at the Louvre features works from in the king’s collection of works by Dutch and Flemish painters like Jean Clouet, Corneille de Lyon, and Joos van Cleve; new works have recently emerged, and this exhibit features the recent discoveries – Oct 18-Jan 15, 2018
• Camille Henrot, Carte Blanche at Palais de Tokyo, Paris gives New York-based French artist Henrot free reign, and the institution has been quiet so far about what exactly the artist will create inside its walls; his last work was Monday at the Fondazione Memmo in Rome: bronze sculptures and plaster frescoes created in homage to the first day of the work week – Oct 18 – Jan 7, 2018
• Some 50 years after the designer’s first visit to Morocco, a state-of-the-art fashion museum honoring the oeuvre of couturier Yves Saint Laurent will open in Marrakesh just steps from the Jardin Marjorelle, the enchanting botanical garden he tended. The newly constructed 43,000-square-foot Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakesh on Rue Yves Saint Laurent, designed by the Paris-based firm Studio KO, will house thousands of articles of clothing and haute couture accessories, all carefully selected by the late Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurent’s partner in business and in life – opening Oct 19
• Toyin Ojih Odutola: To Wander Determined at the Whitney is the Nigerian artist’s first solo show in New York; it presents fictional portraits of two aristocratic families – Oct 20
• At the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK, paintings, drawings, videos and sculptures from 10 artists comprise the Starless Midnight exhibition that is part of the year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s honorary degree from Newcastle University in England –Oct 20-Jan 21, 2018
• Alina Szapocznikow at the Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, is a reprise of the 2011-2012 retrospective of the Polish artist’s work that traveled to several museums, including the MOMA – Oct 20 – Feb 2018
• The long-awaited Remai Modern art museum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada is set to open; the $80 million, 11,582-square-metre space is located at River Landing, on the west bank of the South Saskatchewan River – Oct 21
• In Los Angeles, the Broad’s first visiting special exhibition, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrorswill be “the first institutional survey to explore the celebrated Japanese artist’s immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms;” it will include six of Kusama’s iconic infinity rooms alongside large-scale installations, paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the early 1950s to the present – Oct 21-Jan 1, 2018
• The second and third installments of We are Here; You are Everywhere at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago celebrates the institution’s 50^th anniversary – Oct 21-Jan 28, 2018
• Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting at MOMA PS1 is the first American retrospective of the artist’s work, spanning the early 1950s to the late 1970s – Oct 22-March 11, 2018
• Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry arrives from the Louvre at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the show features ten paintings from Vermeer along with dozens of others from his 17^th century Dutch peers – Oct 22
• Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet to Matisse and Beyond is an examination of portrayals of black female models at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University – Oct 24-Feb 10
• Photographer Robert Frank is the subject of a retrospective at the Albertina in Vienna — Oct 25-Jan 28, 2018
• At the Neue Galerie in New York, Wiener Werkstatte 1903-1932: The Luxury of Beauty includes 200 objects — furniture, ceramics, drawings and wallpaper — created by the early 20th-century collective of designers known as the Vienna Workshop, whose mission was elevating everyday objects into works of art — Oct 26-Jan 29, 2018
• Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic: From Otto Dix to Jeanne Mammen at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt features 200 artworks to illustrate how Germany dealt with industrialization, changing gender roles and economic pressure that transformed it’s society — Oct 27-Feb 25
• Francois Morellet at the Dia: Chelsea and the Dia: Beacon is a two-venue retrospective of the abstract artist’s work — using materials like neon light, tape and metal rods, he also created numerous geometric paintings. The facade of the Dia: Chelsea will be recreated to resemble his work Trames, a red-and-blue grid — Oct 28-June 30, 2018
• Club 57: Film, Performance and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983 at the MOMA commemorates the basement-level nightspot on St. Mark’s Place — there will be performance documentation, artist-made films, paintings, prints and ‘zines — Oct 31-April 1, 2018

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