what are the best events in the arts this November?

The Dandelion Chandelier Luxury Calendar for The Arts highlights the best events around the world in November 2017 in ballet, modern dance, performance art, classical music, opera, and jazz – as well as new art museum exhibits and installations. For the rest of the Luxury Calendar, click here. For other Arts events, click here.

Performing Arts.

• Performa, the organization dedicated to myriad genres of the performing arts, hosts Circulations, an ambitious architecture program for Performa 17, the seventh edition of the Performa Biennial – events will be held all over New York; a highlight will be the focus on the cultural dialogue between Africa and the West: South African Pavilion Without Walls and Afroglossia will feature commissioned works by artists from Kenya, Ethiopia, Morocco, and South Africa – Nov 1-19
• The Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street will be part of the ensemble performing The Psalms Experience, a sequence of twelve concerts that are part of the White Light Festival of dance and music at Lincoln Center; four internationally acclaimed choirs will perform all 150 Psalms in musical settings crossing centuries—including commissions by contemporary composers—at venues across Manhattan – Nov 1-11
• Also on the program for White Light: the New York premiere of Stabat Mater, a union of sacred music and dance that meditates on love, grief, and transcendence – Nov 1-2
• Bernstein’s Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival continues at the New York Philharmonic, with performances of Rhapsody in Blue and Don Quixote – Nov 2-4 & 9-14
• As part of its 30^th anniversary season celebration, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a “Landmark Concert,” Nuevo Jazz Latino in the spectacular Appel Room overlooking Columbus Circle – Nov 3-4
• The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Incomparable Haydn – Nov 3
• The Boston Ballet opens its season with the North American premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Obsidian Tear, co-produced with the Royal Ballet; it features an all-male ensemble and is set to music composed by Esa-Pekka Salonen – Nov 3-12
• The Guggenheim’s Works & Process features ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq’s The Ballet Cookbook, which includes ballet history, stories about food, and recipes from notable dancers and choreographers including George Balanchine – dancers will perform works from the contributors, and food scholar Meryl Rosofsky will discuss the author – Nov 5-6
• Classical-crossover tenor and heartthrob Mario Frangoulis spends an evening at the Rose Center at Jazz at Lincoln Center, performing songs in English, Italian, Spanish, French and Greek – Nov 6
• ABT and Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer David Hallberg’s memoir A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back will be published by Simon & Schuster – Nov 7
• At Carnegie Hall, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of conductor Zubin Mehta performs works from Beethoven, Mahler and Tchaikovsky – Nov 7-9
• The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra celebrates Leonard Bernstein at 100 – Nov 9-11
• The Radio City Christmas Spectacular returns to New York – Nov 10-Jan 1, 2018
• In London, The Southbank Centre Winter Festival returns with array of festive shows and performances, pop-up shops and activities with a Nordic theme, a Christmas market, an alpine pop-up lodge and a rooftop Finnish sauna on the Queen Elizabeth Roof Gardens – Nov 10 – Jan 4, 2018
• War of the Worlds will be a participatory classical music experience, performed by the LA Philharmonic New Music Group, and directed by Yuval Sharon, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles – Nov 12 & 18
• The 12th annual Monte Carlo Jazz Festival is centered at the Opera Garnier; performances are also held at the iconic Casino – Nov 16-Dec 2
• “ . . . there is no one, not even the wind” by John Luther Adams will see its New York premiere at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as part of a series focusing on the flute – Nov 19
• Composer John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West, the most eagerly-awaited new opera of the season, will have its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera; the work portrays stories of the California Gold Rush in the 1850s and stars tenor Paul Appleby and soprano Julia Bullock – Nov 21
• The 9^th edition of Orchestres en Fête, the annual classical music festival, will feature classics and lesser-known contemporary pieces played by 50-piece national orchestras, as well as more intimate concerts by small Baroque ensembles in venues across Paris – Nov 24-26
• George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker performed by the New York City Ballet arrives for its annual run at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center – Nov 24 – Dec 31
• The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater season at City Center will feature 2 premieres and 3 new productions – and of course, Revelations – Nov 29 – Dec 31
• The Joyce will host Lucinda Childs: A Portrait (1963-2016), a five-decade retrospective of the choreographer’s work, including the seminal works Pastime, Interior Drama, and Concerto; the program will also feature the New York premiere of a new work commissioned by the Joyce, Into View, featuring the music of Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld – Nov 29 – Dec 11
• Alvin Ailey Dance Theater’s opening night gala will feature a live gospel choir – Nov 30

Visual Arts.

• Murillo: The Self Portraits at the Frick Collection focuses on two rare self-portraits by the Spanish Baroque artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) that have not been exhibited together since the early 18th century; 15 other works, including prints, books, and drawings accompany them – Nov 1 – Feb 4, 2018; the exhibit moves to the National Gallery in London Feb 28-May 21, 2018
• William Kentridge: Enough and Too Much at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, will feature the artist’s work in opera and theater, including such productions as 2010’s The Nose – his set pieces, preparatory sketches, as well as films of the performances will be on view – Nov 1–March 19, 2018
• Monochrome: Painting in Black and White at the National Gallery in London explores its subject from the Middle Ages through today; a selection of 60 painted objects in a wide variety of materials includes works by Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Durer and Jackson Pollack — Nov 1-Feb 18, 2018; the exhibit moves to the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf March 21-July 15, 2018
• The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904) at Tate Britain is a stunning collection of works by leading French impressionists; see London through the eyes of Monet, Tissot and Pissarro among others, with more than 100 paintings inspired by their time in the city during the Franco-Prussian war – Nov 2-May 7, 2018
• At Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Miami-based artist gets her first career survey and largest museum show to date, featuring 17 major film and video works spanning two decades, including videos of individuals dancing in urban settings, and Native American drumming – Nov 3 – March 4, 2018
• The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC will feature works by some of the country’s most influential artists – Nov 3
• Tamayo: The New York Years at the Smithsonian American Art Museum will showcase the work of Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, who was one of the artists at the center of the modernist world – Nov 3
• The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia will host artist Sonya Clark, who will create another piece in her series Unraveling; Clark starts with an intact Confederate flag and deconstructs a portion of the cloth, inviting others to join her in the slow and contemplative communal act. The organizers of the event hope to generate discussion on the following question: “In our current political climate, what is the role and responsibility of artists in responding to a nation divided?” – Nov 4
• Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts will feature more than 300 works in a range of mediums selected from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art’s collection; the presentation is “organized around the central activity of looking—looking closely at issues of technique and creative expression, looking broadly at the varied lives these assembled objects have lived, and looking critically at how new contexts shift how we see artworks.” Featured artists include El Anatsui, Sokari Douglas Camp, Romuald Hazoumè, Julie Mehretu, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – opening Nov 4
• At the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge will display a new 8-work site-specific commission for the third floor of the building created by the LA-based artist. It’s inspired by a cyclorama depicting a definitive attack in the battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War painted by Paul Philippoteaux in 1883; this new work will focus on the overlooked female voices of the Civil Rights Movement and is Bradford’s first in Washington and the largest he has ever created. – Nov 8 – Nov 12, 2018
• Art in the Open: 50 Years of Public Art in New York at the Museum of the City of New York – Nov 10
• At the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the group exhibition Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound will see 10 artists display audio-visual works: one retells the myth of a trickster who breaks the grip of darkness on the world, another carries a message of environmental preservation – Nov 10 – Jan 6, 2019
• North: Fashioning Identity at Somerset House in London is an exhibition of the culture of northern England; the show has travelled from Liverpool and contains cultural touchstones like record sleeves, clothing and photography that show how the north has shaped the world’s taste – Nov 10- Feb 4, 2018
• Laura Owens, the LA-based painter, will be the subject of a mid-career survey – the most comprehensive of Owens’s work to-date – at the Whitney; the exhibit will feature approximately 60 paintings from the mid-1990s until today – Nov 10 – Feb 4
• The long-awaited opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi – first announced in 2007 – arrives this month; the museum on Saadiyat Island is to open to the public just ahead of the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix – Nov 11
• Learning to Read with John Baldessari at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City showcases the artist’s conceptual works that utilize puns, word games, and popular imagery to comment on how we communicate through culture. Hung alphabetically by title from A to Z, the exhibit will include over 100 works — Nov 11-April 8, 2018
• Norwegian textile artist Hannah Ryggen was known for her tapestries created in response to the major events between WW1 and the Cold War — her career retrospective at the Modern Art Oxford spans 50 years of her work — Nov 11-Feb 18, 2018
• Adios Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will focus on artists who remained in Cuba after the Revolution – Nov 11-March 18, 2018
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveils the largest exhibition of Michelangelo works in its history: Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer will contain 150 drawings, three marble sculptures he created as a teenage prodigy, and his first known painting (The Torment of Saint Anthony). Other works to be displayed include a cartoon that that the artist drew for his final fresco at the Vatican Palace, and a series of drawings that he made for Tommaso de’Cavalieri, who was said to have been the object of Michelangelo’s affections – Nov 8-12 members’ preview days; open to the public Nov 13-Feb 12, 2018
• The retrospective exhibit Frank Stella: Experiment and Change at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida will feature 300 artworks – including paintings, relief sculptures, and drawings, created over the artist’s six-decade career, from the 1950s to the present – Nov 12–July 8, 2018
• The Art Party at the Whitney Museum is the annual event for the Whitney Contemporaries, a group of young patrons (ages 21-40) that champion emerging artists; this year’s hosts include Monse and Oscar de la Renta designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia – Nov 14
• Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed opens at the Met Breuer – Nov 15
• Mad minds: the invention of the art of madness at Maison de Victor Hugo in Paris – Nov 17- Feb 25, 2018
• Al Taylor: What Are You Looking At? at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta features work from the painter-turned-sculptor, surveying the full range of his work, encompassing more than 150 sculptures, drawings and prints — Nov 17-March 18, 2018
• Kiefer Rodin at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, in collaboration with the Musee Rodin in Paris, features contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer’s experimental responses to masterworks by Auguste Rodin; both artists focus on the architecture of the human body – Nov 17-March 12, 2018
• Keith Haring: the End of the Line at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, will revisit the artist’s landmark temporary mural, first created in 1987; the exhibit will showcase documentation of the project itself, alongside work created by Haring following its completion – Nov 17–March 11, 2018
• Surrealism in Egypt: Art and Liberty 1938-1948 at Tate Modern Liverpool uncovers how Surrealism developed beyond Europe and influenced Cairo’s art scene; the display will show how a politically engaged collective of artists and writers lived and worked in Cairo in the late 1930s until the late 1940s and played a seminal role in introducing surrealism to the Cairo art scene. The exhibition will feature paintings, photographs and archival documents that will be on view in the UK for the first time – Nov 17-March 11, 2018
• James Rosenquist: Painting as Immersion at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, France brings the pop artist’s monumental 1964 work F-111 together with 35 other mural-sized paintings and drawings – Nov 18-March 4, 2018
• Red Star Over Russia at Tate Modern in London presents Stalin as seen through the eyes of artists, designers and photographers, with the added significance that this year marks the centenary of the October Revolution; the show is an opportunity to see rare propaganda posters, prints and photographs – some bearing traces of state censorship – Nov 18-Feb 18, 2018
• The 4th annual Prospect New Orleans is titled “The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp” to mark the city’s 300^th anniversary, the festival will feature works from 73 artists and focus on the themes of identity, cultural hybridity, and colonialism — Nov 18-Feb 25, 2018
• A highlight of Prospect 4 in New Orleans will be the unveiling of the latest work from Kara Walker, done in collaboration with pianist Jason Moran and steam-power enthusiast Kenneth Griffard – it’s a steam calliope that plays songs and sounds associated with African-American protest music, sited in Algiers Point, where slaves were once quarantined prior to be being sold in the French Quarter – Nov 18
• Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules is on exhibit at the San Francisco MoMA – Nov 18
• Photographer Stephen Shore, whose work was first acquired by the MOMA in 1961 (when he was only 14 years old) will be the subject of a comprehensive survey of his work, with hundreds of photographs on display — most are scenes from America, but the more recent ones include images from Israel and Ukraine – Nov 19-May 28, 2018
• David Hockney, a traveling retrospective of the artist’s works, makes its only North American stop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – Nov 22 & 24-26 members’ preview days; open to the public Nov 27
• Modigliani at the Tate Modern in London is an extensive survey of the artist’s work, including almost 100 paintings and sculptures; the exhibit will feature the largest number of Modigliani nudes ever shown in London, and will explore the influences on his work of such artists as Paul Cézanne, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, and Pablo Picasso – Nov 23-April 2, 2018
• Degas, Dance, Drawing. Homage with Paul Valéry at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris explores the friendship between the painter and the writer – Nov 28-Feb 25, 2018
• Works by artist Sylvia Snowden and Shinique Smith appear in the recently opened exhibition Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Snowden is a painter and Smith works with fabric, clothing and photography; each will discuss her work and share stories about her practice during a forum at the museum – Nov 28
• Dread Scott, Slave Rebellion Reenactment, New Orleans; sometime this month, artist Dread Scott plans to walk 26 miles with an army of volunteers in period costumes. The group is reenacting a little known moment in history—the 1811 German Coast Uprising in Louisiana—the largest uprising of enslaved people in the United States. Slaves organized a revolt against white slaveholders, taking up arms to seize Orleans territory in a quest for their own emancipation, but also to end slavery. Scott envisions a two-day procession of 500 black people armed with sabers and muskets, many mounted on horses, bound for New Orleans.

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