The November 2019 Dandelion Chandelier Luxury Events Calendar for The Arts and Culture is a curated list of ballet and modern dance performances and classical concerts. Plus jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019. It’s the best in the arts and culture in November 2019. For the full November 2019 Luxury Calendar, click here.
the best in the arts and culture in november 2019
In the arts, November is the official start of the holiday season. In addition to iconic and beloved performances of works like NYCB’s The Nutcracker, the month will see the return of the Southbank Centre Winter Festival in London.
But it’s not all about the holidays, the visual arts will see blockbuster openings, including Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love in New York, TeamLAB’s Borderless in Shanghai and the Art Institute of Chicago’s Bauhaus in Chicago: Design in the City.
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1. best dance events in november 2019
Paul Taylor American Modern Dance returns to Lincoln Center with Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker, featuring the Paul Taylor Dance Company in a tribute to its founder, who died in 2018 – through Nov 17
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019: Paul Taylor Celebrate the Dancemaker.
Crystal Pite is reuniting with the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet for a series of sixty minute performances divided up into as many choreographed sequences – through Nov 23
The Royal Ballet delves into the enchanted world of princesses, fairy godmothers and magical spells in The Sleeping Beauty set to Tchaikovsky – Nov 7 – Jan 16
After enjoying some Thanksgiving turkey, kick off the start of the holiday season with the opening of George Balachine’s The Nutcracker at the New York City Ballet – Nov 30 – Jan 5
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019: the Nutcracker at New York City Ballet.
2. best classical music concerts in november 2019
The NY Phil will play Salonen, Bach and Hindemith – Nov 6 – 12
Carnegie Hall will present the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with an all-Prokofiev program – Nov 16
The Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal will perform Bruckner and Mozart at Carnegie Hall – Nov 22
The LA Phil together with Korean star pianist Seong-Jin Cho will perform Rachmaninoff’s ultra-Romantic concerto at Dudamel Conducts Rachmaninoff & Stravinsky – Nov 29 – Dec 1
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019: Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal at Carnegie Hall.
3. best opera performances in november 2019
Mozart’s The Magic Flute will be brought to life in David McVicar’s Royal Opera production featuring enchanting set designs by John Macfarlane – Nov 1 – 27
The 10th anniversary of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival Continues with Richard III – Nov 7 – 23
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro is at the Metropolitan Opera – Nov 16 – Feb 22
Still looking for an excuse to head to Paris this fall? Perhaps the Opéra Bastille’s take on the Shakespearian tragedy Lear will lure you there? – Nov 21 – Dec 7
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019: Lear at the Paris Opera.
4. best jazz and new music concerts this november 2019
Every two years, a slew of ambitious performances take over New York City for the Performa Biennial, a multisite exhibition established in 2005 by art historian and curator of performance art RoseLee Goldberg. For this year’s edition, Performa 19, Samson Young has created music inspired by 16th-century Chinese folklore and 20th-century modernist dance – Nov 1 – 24
In London the Southbank Centre Winter Festival returns with array of festive shows and performances including Black Beauty, pop up shops and activities with a Christmas market and a turn-of-the-century circus at Circus 1903 – Nov 8 – Jan 5
The 14th annual Monte Carlo Jazz Festival is centered at the Opera Garnier; performances are also held at the iconic Casino – Nov 16 – 29
Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts The Abyssinian Mass, a swinging celebration of big band sound and gospel soul from Wynton Marsalis. Created to mark the bicentennial of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2013, the Mass moves audiences of every tradition to clap their hands in this joyous, soulful affirmation of just how high the human spirit can rise – Nov 21 – 23
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019: The Abyssinian Mass at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
visual arts and culture in november 2019
1. best art museum exhibits in europe, middle east and africa in november 2019
In 2010 Christian Boltanski filled the central gallery of Paris’s Grand Palais with a 50 ton pile of clothes in a meditation on trauma, death and absence. Now he’s the subject of a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, which will show a full spread of Boltanski’s five decade career, including installations, photographs, sound pieces and sculptures – Nov 13 – Mar 16
The National Gallery in Prague celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia with Havel for President! The Year 1989 in Photographs – Nov 15 – Feb 16
Derek Jarman died 25 years ago from AIDS related causes at 52. An activist from the beginning of his career, in the ’60s, his films during the ’80s responded directly to the mounting AIDS crisis. Derek Jarman: PROTEST! at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin presents the complete Jarman: not just the films, but also his paintings, writings and set design – Nov 15 – Feb 23
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019: Derek Jarman PROTEST.
Florence’s Uffizi Gallery Roughly will show around a hundred paintings, sculptures, examples of the applied arts, tapestries, miniatures and printed books to reconstruct the world of one of the greatest thinkers of the 16th century in Pietro Aretino and the Art of the Renaissance – Nov 26 – Mar 1
2. best art museum exhibits in north and south america in november 2019
Though the 1991 Gulf War was brief, it touched off a sustained period of US military involvement in Iraq, from the 2003 invasion to the official end of the Iraq War in 2011. The conflict has been a source of inspiration for artists including Paul Chan, Harun Farocki and the Guerrilla Girls, who have all touched on the reality of the extended conflict as well as attendant ideas of imperialism and violence. MoMA PS1 will explore that and more in Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 – Nov 3 – Mar 1
Yayoi Kusama is bringing an all new infinity mirror room to NYC at the David Zwirner Gallery. In addition to a new infinity room, Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love will include new paintings and sculptures – Nov 9 – Dec 14
At the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, you’ll find James Turrell: Passages of Light. Turrell is best known for his ethereal colored installations that engage viewers with the limits of human perception – Nov 22 – Mar 29
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019: James Turrell Passages of Light. Courtesy Photo.
On the centenary of the innovative German design school, the Art Institute of Chicago’s Bauhaus in Chicago: Design in the City focuses on the moment when many of its leading lights, fleeing Nazism, landed in Chicago. Also going on the in the museum is an exhibit focusing on the school’s influence on weaving – Nov 23 – Apr 26
3. best art museum exhibits in asia in november 2019
Japan Supernatural at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney is a mystically minded survey of more than 180 works from Japan pairs neo-pop visions by Takashi Murakami, Chiho Aoshima, and Miwa Yanagi with historic miniature carvings and woodblock prints – Nov 2 – Mar 8
The digital art collective known as TeamLAB will open the permanent exhibition Borderless in Shanghai where visitors can immerse their bodies in borderless art – Nov 5
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in November 2019: teamLab Borderless Shanghai.
the best in the arts and culture in november 2019
That’s it. Some of the top ballet performances, jazz concerts in August 2019. Our top picks for the best new events in the world of the arts and culture in november 2019. Have a dazzling month.
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Jillian Tangen is the Head of Research at Dandelion Chandelier and a former Senior Research Analyst at McKinsey & Co and Analyst at Shearman & Sterling. She is an avid fan of Nordic design, having owned an independent lifestyle store and sales agency focused on emerging Scandinavian design. Jillian lives in New York and is married with three young children. She loves cross-country skiing, the New York Rangers, reading, travel and discovering new brands.
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