This Week’s Major Events: Frieze Week, Design Fairs, Must-See Museum & Gallery Exhibitions

October 13-19, 2015

LONDON

Frieze London, Regent’s Park, London
October 14-17, 2015
Frieze London features over 160 of the world’s most exciting galleries. View and buy art from over 1,000 of today’s leading artists, and experience the fair’s critically acclaimed Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks. In 2014, the fair also introduced Live – a new section dedicated to ambitious performance-based installations. Frieze London is housed in a bespoke structure in The Regent’s Park, in the heart of London, within easy walking distance of the city’s West End. This year, Frieze Projects will present seven new commissions, with the support of the LUMA Foundation.  Click here to continue reading.

Frieze Masters, Regent’s Park, London
October 14-18, 2015
Frieze Masters brings together several thousand years of art in a unique, contemporary context. See and buy art from over 130 of the world’s leading galleries specialising in: Antiquities, Asian Art, Ethnographic Art, Illuminated Manuscripts, Medieval Art, Modern and Post-War, Old Masters and 19th Century, Photography, Sculpture and Wunderkammer. Frieze Masters includes a programme of talks in which major artists, critics and curators discuss the relationships between contemporary and historical art. Frieze Masters Talks is programmed by Jennifer Higgie (co-editor, frieze & editor, Frieze Masters magazine) and Jasper Sharp, (Adjunct Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). Click here to continue reading.

PAD London, Berkeley Square W1, London
October 14-18, 2015
Inspiring a unique spirit of collecting, PAD epitomises how modern art, photography, design, decorative and tribal arts interact to reveal astonishing combinations and create the most individual and staggering interiors. Prominent international galleries from major cities across Europe, North America and Asia come together to offer an exceptional panorama of the most coveted and iconic works available on the market today. PAD is a place to discover and acquire pieces of museum quality with a distinct history. PAD cultivates eclecticism, authenticity and connoisseurship with passion and flair. Click here to continue reading.

Goya: The Portraits, National Gallery, London
On view through January 10, 2016
Striking and often unforgiving, Goya’s portraits demonstrate his daringly unconventional approach and remarkable skill at capturing the psychology of his sitters. Already 37 when he secured his first important portrait commission from Spain’s Prime Minister, Count Floridablanca, Goya’s reputation grew quickly. Ambitious and proud of his status, he gained patrons from the entire breadth of Spanish society: from the royal family and aristocrats, to intellectuals, politicians and military figures, to his own friends and family. Click here to continue reading.

PARIS

PICASSO.MANIA, Grand Palais, Paris
On view through February 29, 2015
The twenty or so solo or group exhibitions since 1973 that have focused on the study of the posterity of Pablo Picasso’s oeuvre testify to its impact on contemporary art. The exhibition at the Grand Palais takes a simultaneously chronological and thematic approach to the critical and artistic highlights of Picasso’s career and the myth that gradually built up around his name. From Cubist still lifes to the Musketeers in the exhibitions in Avignon in 1970 and 1973, the exhibition is punctuated by works by Picasso from the collections of the Picasso Museum in Paris, the Musée National d’art Moderne, and the artist’s family. Click here to continue reading.

NEW YORK

National Design Week, Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY
Through October 18, 2015
National Design Week celebrates the important role that design plays in all aspects of daily life. Launched in 2006, National Design Week is held each year in conjunction with the National Design Awards, Cooper Hewitt’s largest and most visible education initiative. During National Design Week, Cooper Hewitt’s award-winning Education Department hosts a series of free public programs based on the vision and work of the National Design Award honorees. National Design Week culminates with the National Design Awards Gala benefit and awards ceremony. In recognition of the importance of design education, organizations and institutions across the country sponsor design events throughout the month. Click here to continue reading.

Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action, Frick Collection, New York, NY
On view through January 10, 2015
From about 1515 until his death, Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530) ran the most successful and productive workshop in Florence, not only leaving his native city richly decorated with his art but also greatly influencing the art produced in the remainder of the century. By 1700, however, Andrea’s reputation had declined, not to be revived until the publication of monographs by Sydney Freedberg and John Shearman in 1963 and 1965, respectively. Although his oeuvre represents the essence of Florentine High Renaissance creativity and the magisterial beauty of his drawings is well known to scholars and collectors, he is less known to the general public. Click here to continue reading.

Open House New York, Various Locations, New York, NY
October 17-18, 2015
Open House New York (OHNY) is a 501(c)3 organization that promotes a greater appreciation of the city’s built environment; broadens public awareness by exposing diverse audiences to distinctive examples of architecture, engineering and design; educates and inspires discussion of issues of excellence in design, planning and preservation; and showcases outstanding new work as well as structures of historic merit. Inspired by his volunteer experiences with Open House London, Scott Lauer founded Open House New York in 2001. Click here to continue reading.

PENNSYLVANIA

Expanded View of Permanent Collection, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
On view through October 25, 2015
The James A. Michener Art Museum has reinstalled its permanent collection in two dynamic exhibitions in the Byers and Putman Smith Galleries, revealing to the public 80 pieces that include Pennsylvania Impressionist works as well as contemporary paintings and sculpture. Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings, which have sparked renewed national interest in recent years, are now displayed salon style in the Byers Gallery, affording visitors the opportunity to view six times as many paintings as previously displayed in the space. The Putnam Smith Gallery now houses 21 newly acquired paintings and sculpture representing the work of critically acclaimed artists with ties to the region, including Dorothy Heller, Linda Guenste, Jonathan Hertzel, and Donald Meyer. Many of the pieces currently on display in the two galleries have never before been shown at the Museum. The exhibition in the Byers Gallery is a permanent installation; the exhibition in the Putnam Smith Gallery will be on view through October 25, 2015. Click here to continue reading.

Picturing Music, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, PA
October 16-November 13, 2015
Picturing Music traces the relationship between painting and music in American art from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Beginning in the nineteenth century, artists primarily pictured music through representation and narrative, and this exhibition features notable examples by major American artists such as Eastman Johnson, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Childe Hassam, and Thomas Eakins. With the advent of Modernism in the twentieth century, artists began to experiment with capturing the abstract essence of music through form and color. This exhibition highlights a diverse selection of these important modernists, including Marsden Hartley, Max Weber, Oscar Bluemner, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Arthur Dove, and Stuart Davis.  An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 16th from 6-9pm. Click here to continue reading.

OHIO

Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
On view through January 5, 2016
The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts in London are organizing an innovative exhibition that examines the role of gardens in the paintings of Claude Monet and his contemporaries. Arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, Monet was also an avid horticulturist who cultivated gardens wherever he lived. As early as the 1860s, a symbiotic relationship developed between his activities as a horticulturist and his paintings of gardens, a relationship that can be traced from his early years in Sainte-Adresse to his final months at Giverny. Click here to continue reading.

Degas and the Dance, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
October 15, 2015-January 10, 2016
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, on loan from the Clark Art Institute of Williamstown, Massachusetts, occupies center stage in this exhibition that revolves around Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of France’s leading Impressionists. Originally modeled in wax in 1880-81, the 38-inch tall figure was cast in bronze in 1919-21 and depicts Marie van Goethem, a student in the Ballet School of the Paris Opéra. Ten other works by Degas on the subject of ballet, including bronze sculptures and paintings, will be shown. Click here to continue reading.

MINNESOTA

Delacroix’s Influence: The Rise of Modern Art from Cézanne to van Gogh, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
October 18, 2015 - January 10, 2016
He was the engine of revolution that helped transform French painting of the 19th century. And the younger generation, from Degas to van Gogh, scrambled to keep pace. At his death in 1863, Eugène Delacroix was the most revered artist in Paris. This ground-breaking exhibition will investigate how this last painter of the Grand Style was also one of Europe’s first modern masters. In addition to works by Delacroix, the exhibition will spotlight paintings by Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, and others, many of them on loan from international museums. Click here to continue reading.

ARKANSAS

Alfred Maurer: Art on the Edge, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
On view through January 4, 2016
Considered one of the first Americans to adopt French Fauvism and one of the most versatile American Modernists, Alfred H. Maurer tirelessly pushed the boundaries of artistic expression throughout his career. This exhibition features 65 of Maurer’s most accomplished works, highlighting the artist’s singular contributions to American painting in the early twentieth century. Maurer spent nearly 17 years in Paris, where he was introduced to French avant-garde art through his friendships with major collectors, dealers, and artists. Throughout his long career he maintained a steady interest in certain themes and in formal experimentation with color, form, and abstraction. The exhibition surveys Maurer’s career from fin-de-siècle figure paintings, scenes of contemporary leisure, Fauvist works, landscapes and florals, heads and figures, and still lifes, to late Cubist abstractions. The diversity and virtuosity of the works illustrate the extent to which Maurer was a formidable creative force in expanding the potential for artistic expression in American art. Click here to continue reading.

GEORGIA

Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna’s Imperial Collections, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
October 18, 2015-January 17, 2016
This exhibition takes viewers on a journey that explores six hundred years of art collecting by the Habsburg family, one of Europe's most powerful and long-lived dynasties. The Habsburgs served as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, the highest secular authority in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Centered in Vienna, Austria, their empire extended to the Americas as well. All of the works in this exhibition come from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria, built by Emperor Franz Josef to house the imperial collections. Click here to continue reading.

FLORIDA

Esherick to Nakashima, Modernism Museum, Mount Dora, FL
On view through September 30, 2016
Several exhibitions examine how the DNA of Wharton Esherick, “Dean of American Craftsmen”, intertwines through the various works of generations of artists who followed him. Wharton is credited as being one of the most influential artists of Modernism & the American Studio Arts Movement as is George Nakashima. Nakashima's pieces, in which he philosophically used wood to focus on the soul of a tree, its' life and legacy, will be featured. Also showcased is the Museum's permanent collection by Wharton Esherick and a selection of unique pieces from Wendell Castle, all influential artists of Modernism and the American Studio Arts Movement. Click here to continue reading.

CALIFORNIA

Jewel City: Art from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
October 17, 2015-January 10, 2016
 Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition is on view at the de Young from October 17, 2015, through January 10, 2016. Celebrating the centennial of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco, this exhibition revisits a vital moment in the inauguration of the city as a cultural center on the West Coast.The PPIE was a world’s fair hosted by San Francisco to commemorate the opening of the Panama Canal and also served to promote the city’s recovery following the 1906 earthquake. At the heart of the PPIE was one of the most ambitious art exhibitions ever presented in the United States. Click here to continue reading.