The Dandelion Chandelier Luxury Calendar for The Arts highlights noteworthy events around the world in August 2018 in ballet, modern dance, performance art, classical music, opera and jazz –plus notable new art museum exhibits and installations. Looking for a transporting cultural experience? Look no further. For the rest of the Luxury Calendar, click here.
The Mostly Mozart Festival and Salzburg Festivals continue their runs this month, and there are also some new music festivals kicking off, including the Newport Jazz Festival and Edinburgh International Festival.
This month you’ll also find the Boston Ballet at Tanglewood, as well as a celebration of the hometown hero Leonard Bernstein. The end of the August brings with it the arrival of Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection at the Brooklyn Museum as well as A Body Measured Against the Earth at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
Performing Arts
Continuing at Lincoln Center is the Mostly Mozart Festival – through Aug 12
Available Light performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, New York Phot Credit: Craig T. Mathew
Productions of La Boheme, Tosca and Madama Butterfly are highlights of the Festival Puccini – through Aug 25
The Salzburg Festival continues with performances of Die Zauberflöte, The Queen of Spades and Opera for Children – through Aug 30
The classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Proms, continues – through Sept 9
The Newport Jazz Festival takes place at Fort Adams State Park and the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino. This year’s artists include Gregory Porter, Jon Batiste, Andra Day, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, R+R=Now, and Still Dreaming – Aug 3 – 5
The Newport Jazz Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival will present a program featuring the finest performers and ensembles from the worlds of dance, opera, music and theater – Aug 3 – 27
Closing out the Arena di Verona Festival is a production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia – Aug 4 – 30
The theme of this year’s Lucerne Festival is “Childhood.” Music by Georges Bizet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky is part of the lineup – Aug 17 – Sept 9
The Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
This month the Boston Ballet will debut at Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, for a centennial tribute to Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins in a performance of Fancy Free – Aug 18
On Bernstein’s birthday, The Bernstein Centennial Celebration take place at Tanglewood and will be conducted by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons, Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart, Michael Tilson Thomas and John Williams, will feature an array of guest artists, among them Audra McDonald, Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, Susan Graham and Thomas Hampson – Aug 25
Visual Arts
Following a soft opening earlier this year, the Guardian Art Center in Beijing is officially debuting this month. Designed by German architect Ole Scheeren and billed as China’s first custom-built auction house, the new cultural complex is located on Wangfujing Street in the city’s historic Dongcheng District. Highlights this month include the shows Aquarium by Naked and Chanel Coco Crush.
The new Guardian Art Center Beijing
This month is your last chance to see All Too Human at the Tate Modern in London. The exhibition celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways – through Aug 27
David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night has arrived at the Whitney and features over 100 works that demonstrate the range of his art, including performance, sculpture, film, painting, photography, writing, and music. Whether painting the walls of the abandoned Hudson River piers, or photographing his dying friends, Wojnarowicz in his art united startling beauty and activist spirit – through Sept 30
Influential photographer Susan Meiselas has received a West Coast retrospective of her work, Susan Meiselas: Mediations, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art which includes 1970s portraits of carnival strippers up to her more recent multimedia project on the 1990s Kurdish genocide – through Oct 21
Newly opened at the MFA Boston is The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of World Wars – through Jan 21
Selected work from the Art of Influence exhibit at MFA Boston
The theme for this year’s Sitelines in Santa Fe was inspired by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar’s timely 1946 short story “Casa tomada” with its exploration of borders and immigration. New commissions include weavings by Melissa Cody and sculptures by Tania Pérez Córdova – Aug 3 – Jan 6
Rauschenberg: In and About L.A. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art features a selection of works that Rauschenberg made in and about L.A., this exhibition highlights the city’s indelible impact on his creative output – Aug 11 – Feb 10
Guild Hall opens Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons – Aug 11 – Oct 8
The award winning video and installation artist Neïl Beloufa will transform the SCHIRN in Frankfurt into his stage – Aug 23 – Oct 28
A Body Measured Against the Earth at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art stages encounters between the earth and the body to understand the land and its relationship to life on Earth – Aug 25 – April 7, 2019
Selected work from A Body Measured Against the Earth at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
For 10 weeks Kunsthalle Zürich will be turned into a laboratory for research, art and teaching around the theme of “thinking” with the exhibit 100 Ways of Thinking – Aug 24 – April 11
Featuring more than 100 works, Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection in the Brooklyn Museum explores a wide range of art making, focusing on enduring political subjects encompassing gender, race, and class. The exhibition’s intersectional feminist framework highlights artworks, in a plurality of voices, that aim to rally support or motivate action on behalf of a cause, or to combat stereotypes and dominant narratives – Aug 31 – Mar 31
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