The Dandelion Chandelier Luxury Diary for The Arts highlights noteworthy events around the world in September 2018 in ballet, modern dance, performance art, classical music, opera and jazz –plus notable new art museum exhibits and installations. For the rest of the Luxury Diary, click here.
September marks the kick-off of several major performing arts organizations’ 2018-2019 seasons — including the San Francisco Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the Paris Opera Ballet, The Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House.
Lincoln Center
It also marks new beginnings and transitions in visual arts. The arrival of fall brings a new slate of exhibits, including Ruth Baumgarte: A Retrospective; a comprehensive retrospective on Delacroix; an exhibition on Armenia; and a new bespoke sculpture from Arlene Shechet in Madison Square Park in New York.
Here’s the detailed rundown on the cool events coming up in the arts this month:
Performing Arts
Almost thirty years after its last visit, the Martha Graham Dance Company returns to the stage of the Palais Garnier with a number of emblematic works from its repertoire, including Appalachian Spring and The Rite of Spring, performed for the first time at the Paris Opera – Sept 3 – 8
Martha Graham Dance Company Appalachian Spring
Dancing with Myself is a new coffee-table book from Rizzoli that’s a wild jig through the art of the last fifty years, in which the dancers themselves are the artists – Sept 4
The new season of the San Francisco Opera begins with a gala and a performance of Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci – Sept 7
San Francisco Opera
Join in the Last Night of the Proms either inside Royal Albert Hall, or outdoors in Hyde Park. Hosted by Michael Ball, the closing performance of the summer music festival features a host of musical stars and as always, the traditional group sing-along of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ – Sept 8
Asking profound questions about justice, guilt and redemption, The Prisoner at National Theatre London convenes a cast of acclaimed actors from around the world – Sept 12 – Oct 4
Wynton Marsalis‘ Spaces combines modern dance with big band jazz in a playful and wildly entertaining exploration of the animal kingdom. Performed for the first time (to sold-out crowds) in 2016, this visually captivating Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis production returns to kick off the 31st season before embarking on a national tour. Two singular dance geniuses from the premiere—Lil Buck and Jared Grimes—reprise their roles, leaping, sliding, flipping, and tap dancing across the stage – Sept 13 – 15
Wynton Marsalis
Each year, the French newspaper L’Humanité organizes a festival, Fête de l’Huma, in Paris for a weekend full of debates, exhibitions and concerts – Sept 14 – 16
The New York City Opera presents Barber of Seville at Bryant Park Upper Terrace as part of its Park Series – Sept 17
Simon Godwin directs Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo as the iconic lovers in a new production of Antony and Cleopatra at London’s National Theatre – Previews Sept 18, Opens Sept 26
Antony & Cleopatra at the National Theater in London
The Rite of Spring roars to life with visceral rhythms and the raw energy of ancient Russian rituals for the New York Philharmonic’s Opening Gala Concert: New York, Meet Jaap. The event welcomes Jaap van Zweden in his inaugural concert as Music Director – Sept 20
Jaap van Zweden of the New York Philharmonic
The Royal Opera House upacks Richard Wagner’s epic 4-cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen – Sept 24 – Nov 2
The 2018–19 Metropolitan Opera season opens with the Gala Premiere of Darko Tresnjak’s new production of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila with Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna in the title roles – Sept 24
La Bohème takes the stage at the Metropolitan Opera – Sept 25 – Dec 13
Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York at the New York Public Library traces Robbins’ life and dances alongside the history of New York, inspiring us to see the city as both his muse and his home – Sept 26 – March 30, 2019
In what should be a highlight of the new season, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, going toe to toe with mezzo soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris – Sept 26 – March 7, 2019
Anna Netrebko sings Aida
The Paris Opera Ballet opens its new season with a gala performance during which Decadance enters the repertoire – Sept 27
Trinity Church Wall Street will feature flutist Maarika Järvi, violinist Caterina Szepes and pianist Aurelia Mika Chang performing works by J.S. Bach, Gaubert, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Shostakovich and Martinu for Sunday Afternoon Music – Sept 30
Visual Arts
The New Museum of Contemporary Art opens Marguerite Humeau: Birth Canal, featuring surreal amorphous sculptures that draw upon the French artist’s research into the origins of humanity and the history of language, love, spirituality and war – Sept 4 – Jan 6, 2019
Marguerite Humeau: Birth Canal at the New Museum in New York
The highly anticipated fifth volume of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, covering his paintings from 1976 to 1978, will be released by Phaidon – Sept 4
On the occasion of what would have been her 95th birthday, German painter Ruth Baumgarte will be the focus of an exhibit at the Ludwig Museum in St. Petersburg. Ruth Baumgarte: A Retrospective Exhibition will present works from the artist’s Africa cycle – Sept 5 – Oct 22
A Work from the Africa series by German artist Ruth Baumgarte
With more than 480 illustrations, the 2-volume box set Lucian Freud from Phaidon is the most comprehensive publication to date on the painter and his work – Sept 7
At Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at the Brooklyn Museum, works by 60 contributors recall an era in the 1970’s when African-American artists grappled with the cultural changes wrought by the Civil Rights movement – Sept 14 – Feb 3, 2019
The Royal Academy of Arts in London is hosting Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings, recognizing the Italian architect’s 50-year career – Sept 15 – Jan 20, 2019
Scotland’s first design museum, V&A Dundee, is opening this month with the exhibit Ocean Liners: Speed and Style, previously mounted at the V&A in London – Sept 15
Ocean Liners Speed and Style at the V&A Dundee Scotland
The Denver Art Museum hosts Rembrandt: Painter as Printmaker, showcasing almost 100 prints from Rembrandt van Rijn’s career, spanning from 1625 to 1665 – Sept 16 – Jan 6, 2019
Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done at MoMA explores a group of 1960’s choreographers, visual artists, composers and filmmakers who gathered in Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York’s Greenwich Village, for a series of workshops that ultimately redefined what counted as “dance” – Sept 16 – Feb 3, 2019
Delacroix represents the first-ever comprehensive retrospective in North America devoted to Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). Joining forces with Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Met Fifth Avenue offers 150 paintings, drawings, prints and manuscripts by this towering figure of 19th-century art – Sept 17 – Jan 6, 2019
Eugene Delacroix Self Portrait with Green Vest, 1840
For as long as there has been art, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens. Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy at the Met Breuer is the first major exhibition to tackle this perennially provocative topic – Sept 18 – Jan 6, 2019
Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography from Rizzoli is a much-anticipated look at one of the first feminist artists, best known for her iconic landscape photographs made in the early 1900s depicting female nudes outdoors in rugged Northern California – Sept 18
The Musée d’Orsay and the Musée national Picasso-Paris have organized an exhibit dedicated to Pablo Picasso’s blue and rose periods, aptly entitled Picasso. Blue and Rose – Sept 18 – Jan 6, 2019
A work from Picasso’s Rose Period
Armenia! at the Met Fifth Avenue is the first major exhibition to explore the remarkable artistic and cultural achievements of the Armenian people – Sept 22 – Jan 13, 2019
Artist Arlene Shechet has been commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy to create a new installation. Arlene Shechet: Full Steam Ahead will include a series of quirky abstract sculptures in porcelain, wood and cast iron around the park’s central fountain, which has been drained for the occasion – Sept 24 – April 28, 2019
The Turner Prize returns to Tate Britain for its 34th edition. The four artists short-listed for this year’s prize will be the subjects of a group show: Forensic Architecture; Naeem Mohaiemen; Charlotte Prodger; and Luke Willis Thompson. The winner will be announced in December at a gala awards ceremony – Sept 26 – Jan 6, 2019
Dulwich Picture Gallery opens Ribera: Art of Violence, the first UK show dedicated to the Spanish Baroque painter, draughtsman and printmaker Jusepe de Ribera – Sept 26 – Jan 27, 2019
The dynamic works of Mexico City-based Betsabeé Romero will be the next chapter in the New York Avenue Sculpture Project for the National Museum of Women in Arts. To create her four sculptures developed expressly for this installation, Romero assembles carved and painted tires into totemic structures that speak to themes of human migration and the natural environment – Sept 28 – Sept 20, 2020
New York Ave Sculpture Project at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Marking 250 years since Cook’s voyage to the South Pacific, the Royal Academy of Arts celebrates the dazzling and diverse art of the region of Oceania, from the historic to the contemporary with Oceania – Sept 29 – Dec 10
Looking for a transporting cultural experience? Look no further. September is calling.
See other September 2018 Events:
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