GLOBAL CULTURAL BULLETIN | HAPPENINGS | WORLD OF CABANA

 

A monthly guide to the events and exhibitions on Cabana's Radar: a global cultural bulletin and a must-read for anyone looking to keep their finger on the pulse of art, design and culture. Read on to discover our October highlights spanning art, photography, fashion and craft, alongside a wealth of design fairs - and some very special news from Cabana - to keep you busy and inspired this Autumn.

 

CURATED BY TEAM CABANA | HAPPENINGS | 1 OCTOBER 2025

London Calling: Cabana is opening a Holiday Store in one of London's most iconic destinations.

 

October promises a particularly rich season for aesthetes and Cabana fans. London and Paris welcome the return of major fairs—Frieze, Frieze Masters, Art Basel Paris, PAD, Design Miami.Paris, to name a few — while Cabana has BIG news to share. 

We are bringing the world of Cabana to one of London's most iconic destinations. Opening during Frieze Week, our Holiday Shop on Sloane Street will be filled with treasures for every season. A space designed for discovery, inspiration, culture, and beauty - there will always be something new to explore and celebrate. Stay tuned for more details and read on for the rest of our October highlights around the globe...

 

EXHIBITIONS 

 

LONDON, UK

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World

Cecil Beaton, c.1935, Gelatin silver print, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, London.

 

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is the first major exhibition dedicated to the legendary photographer’s trailblazing fashion work. Curated by Vogue’s Robin Muir, the show brings together 250 photographs, sketches, letters and costumes, all charting Beaton’s rise from London’s “Bright Young Things” to the golden age of Hollywood and royalty. Expect dazzling portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Queen Elizabeth II—proof of why Beaton remains the undisputed “King of Vogue.”

October 9, 2025 - January 11, 2026, National Portrait Gallery, LONDON, UK

 

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

At Home in the 17th Century (Dollshouse Exhibit)

Anonymous, Doll’s house belonging to Petronella Oortman, c.1686 - c.1710. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

 

The Rijksmuseum’s At Home in the 17th Century transports visitors 400 years into the past through nine diorama-style displays by artist and set-designer, Steef de Jong. From everyday household objects to the celebrated doll’s house of Petronella Oortman—one of the museum's most exceptional acquisitions—the exhibition captures both the ordinary and extraordinary of a lively, diverse century.

October 11, 2025 - January 11, 2026, Rijksmuseum, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

 

LONDON, UK

CANOPY

14 Cavendish Square courtesy Canopy Collections.

 

Canopy Collections presents CANOPY, a landmark three-day exhibition at 14 Cavendish Square, a Grade-II listed Palladian mansion in Marylebone. Timed ahead of Frieze London, the show brings together over fifty works by living artists alongside modern masters including Picasso and Chagall, staged in dialogue with the historic interiors for an intimate, immersive art experience.

October 10 - 12, 2025, 14 Cavendish, LONDON, UK

 

NEW YORK, USA

Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations

Alison Kuo. You Pick the Moon, 2024. Brooklyn Museum © Alison Kuo.

 

Inspired by Gloria Steinem’s 1983 Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations spotlights artists who use wit, scale, and unconventional materials to quietly challenge the status quo. From Beverly Semmes’s towering velvet dresses to Alison Kuo’s playful found-object assemblages, these works reveal how subtle acts of defiance can spark bold new ways of seeing.

October 10, 2025 - July 5, 2026, The Brooklyn Museum, NEW YORK, USA

 

PARIS, FRANCE

The Middle Ages in the 19th Century 

Chef-reliquaire dit d’Isabelle la Catholique Aix-la-Chapelle © Collection Château de Gaasbeek, artinflanders.be, photo Dominique Provost

 

The 19th century fell under the spell of the Middle Ages, reviving its styles with a mix of reverence, imagination, and deceit. At the Musée de Cluny, The Middle Ages of the 19th Century: Creations and Forgeries in the Decorative Arts showcases glittering ivories, enamels, and goldwork—some genuine, some imitation—to reveal how collectors, craftsmen, and even forgers shaped our modern view of medieval art.

October 7, 2025 - January 11, 2026, Musée de Cluny, PARIS, FRANCE

 

NEW YORK, USA

Paolo Roversi: Along the Way

Paolo Roversi, Kate, New York © Paolo Roversi , courtesy Pace Gallery.

 

Pace Gallery presents Paolo Roversi: Along the Way, a focused retrospective spanning more than three decades of the legendary Italian photographer’s career. The exhibition brings together Roversi’s dreamlike, timeless Polaroid portraits—many produced in his Paris studio—capturing his enduring collaborations across fashion and art, and cementing his legacy as a master of modern photography.

Through October 25, 2025, Pace Gallery, NEW YORK, USA

 

MADRID, SPAIN

Warhol, Pollock, and Other American Spaces

Robert Rauschenberg Express, 1963 Oil, Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza

 

Surveying Andy Warhol’s obsession with Jackson Pollock and the unexpected parallels in their approach to space, abstraction, and seriality, Warhol, Pollock, and Other American Spaces reveals a side of both artists beyond their familiar myths, highlighting their shared fascination with transformation, concealment, and the art of reinvention.

October 21, 2025 - January 26, 2026, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, MADRID, SPAIN

 

SAN FRANCISCO, USA

Manet & Morisot

ÉÉdouard Manet "Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets," 1872 Oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

 

The Legion of Honor presents Manet & Morisot, the first major exhibition devoted to the groundbreaking friendship and artistic dialogue between Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. Spanning 15 years of Parisian modernism, the show pairs masterpieces by both Impressionists, to reveal how Morisot influenced Manet as much as he shaped her, from early portraits to plein-air explorations and seasonal studies of fashionable women. 

October 11, 2025 - March 1, 2026, Legion of Honor, SAN FRANCISCO, USA

 

LONDON, UK

Egypt: Influencing British Design 1775 - 2025

George Dance the younger, Design for a chimneypiece in the Egyptian manner, Lansdowne House, London, 1778-94, Pen and wash on laid paper, SM D333

 

From Sir John Soane’s Egyptian-inspired drawings and the monumental Sarcophagus of Seti I, to Wedgwood ceramics, Art Deco biscuit tins, and new work by Cairo-born artist Sara Sallam, Egypt: Influencing British Design 1775–2025 traces 250 years of enduring fascination with Egypt. A vivid journey through architecture, interiors, and everyday design shaped by one of history’s greatest civilizations.

October 8, 2025 - January 18, 2026, Sir John Soane's Museum, LONDON, UK

 

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Van Gogh and the Roulins. Together Again at Last

Vincent van Gogh, Armand Roulin, 1888. © Museum Folkwang Essen

 

This autumn, the Van Gogh Museum reunites the artist with his close friends and frequent subjects, the Roulins. For the first time in Amsterdam, a selection of over 20 portraits of postman Joseph Roulin, his family, and never-before-seen letters are displayed alongside the original chair on which Roulin posed—offering an intimate glimpse into the friendship that shaped Van Gogh’s portrait work in Arles.

October 3, 2025 - January 11, 2026, Vincent Van Gogh Museum, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

 

NEW YORK, USA

Lin Wang: True Romance

Lin Wang installation view, photographed by Joe Kramm

 

Oslo-based ceramicist Lin Wang transforms porcelain into immersive sculptural tableaux that explore the collision of East and West, personal memory, and the material traces of history. Her installations intertwine cobalt-blue and kaolin-white chinaware, religious iconography, tattoo imagery, and fantastical creatures, reimagining porcelain as both body and canvas in works that are delicate, monumental, and richly allegorical.

Through October 25, 2025, HB381, NEW YORK, USA

 

BURGUNDY, FRANCE

TERRA

Château de Chevigny-en-Valière Dahn Vo 2.2.1861, 2009 Ink on paper 24 x 3 x H.33 cm

 

TERRA returns for its third edition, happening alongside Art Basel Paris, turning Burgundy’s UNESCO-listed vineyards into a sweeping contemporary art experience. The 2025 edition brings together international artists working in painting, sculpture, ceramics, video, and site-specific installation.

October 24, 2025 - November 23, 2025, BURGUNDY, FRANCE

 

DUBLIN, IRELAND

Picasso: From the Studio

Pablo Picasso Portrait of Marie - Thérèse, Paris, 4 December 1937 Oil and pencil on canvas 

 

Picasso: From the Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland brings together paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and works on paper across five decades, from Montmartre to Vallauris and the Côte d’Azur. Discover how his surroundings shaped masterpieces—from Synthetic Cubism to intimate portraits, late ceramics, and domestic scenes—revealing the artist’s boundless inventiveness and the intimate link between life and art.

October 9, 2025 - February 22, 2026, National Gallery of Ireland, DUBLIN, IRELAND

 

LONDON, UK

Reflections - Boris Aldridge 

Musician turned ceramicist Boris Aldridge at work in his studio.

 

Taking place during Frieze London, Amir Mohtashemi Ltd unveils the largest-ever display of Boris Aldridge’s ceramics, showcasing 55 works that span six years of the Suffolk-based master's practice. From richly decorated tiles in the Persian lustreware tradition to monumental panels, the exhibition traces Aldridge’s evolution from the intricate Forest series to the minimalist geometry of Firmament and the hypnotic Moon Fish panels. 

October 11 - 18, 2025, Amir Mohtashemi Ltd., LONDON, UK

 

BATH, UK

Renaissance Treasures from the Schroder Family Collection

Nautilus cup with Chinese processional scene Silver-gilt, nautilus shell and gemstones Nuremberg, mark of Friedrich Hillebrandt; shell carved in China c. 1580-90

 

At Bath's Holburne Museum, the newly opened Schroder Gallery is a glittering trove of Renaissance silver, bronzes, ceramics and paintings—masterpieces on display for the first time—offering a rare glimpse into a world-class private collection.  

Through September 30, 2026, The Holburne Museum, BATH, UK

 

CAMBRIDGE, UK

Made in Ancient Egypt

Decorative spoon with an elaborate handle and swivel lid, 1327–1186 BCE.

 

Made in Egypt celebrates the craftspeople behind the pharaonic world’s most iconic objects—from painted coffins and royal sculptures to textiles and faience vessels—revealing the techniques, tools, and hands that brought them to life, and offering a fresh perspective on the makers who shaped three millennia of Egyptian art.

October 3, 2025 - January 25, 2026, Fitzwilliam Museum, CAMBRIDGE, UK

 

LONDON, UK

Ghost Objects: Summoning Leighton's Lost Collection

Ghost Objects by Annemarieke Kloosterhof, Leighton House. © Jaron James 

 

As part of Leighton House’s centenary, paper artist Annemarieke Kloosterhof masterfully recreates Frederic Leighton’s lost collection in four life-sized ornate sculptures, including a 15th-century tabernacle shrine and a detailed cabinet, breathing new life and a ghostly elegance into the historic rooms as part of Ghost Objects.

October 11, 2025 - March 1, 2026, Leighton House, LONDON, UK

 

LONDON, UK

Strange Discoveries: The Art of Denton Welch

Gerald Mackenzie LEET, Portrait of Denton Welch, 1935. Private Collection, UK

 

Strange Discoveries: The Art of Denton Welch celebrates Welch’s pivotal role in early 20th-century British art and Neo-Romanticism, bringing together his paintings, drawings, and portraits captured by his contemporaries. Featuring fantastical landscapes, still lifes, gothic motifs, and beloved cats, Welch’s work reflects his outsider perspective as a gay man and the lasting effects of a tragic accident. The exhibition also features a newly commissioned portrait of the artist by Luke Edward Hall.

October 10 - 30, 2025, Fitzroy Square, LONDON, UK

 

MASSACHUSETTS, USA

Berenice Abbott's Modern Lens

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Lucia Joyce, 1926–1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print. Gift of A&M Penn Photography Foundation by Arthur Stephen Penn and Paul Katz, 2007.2.189. Berenice Abbott/Premium Archive via Getty Images

 

The Clark Art Institute commemorates a century of Berenice Abbott’s photography and avant-garde vision with Berenice Abbott’s Modern Lens, showcasing her sharp, soulful portraits of Parisian creatives and her iconic images of the American urban landscape. From intimate scenes to bustling streets, Abbott’s lens captures the people and places that defined modern life of the inter-war period.

Through October 10, 2025, The Clark Art Institute, MASSACHUSETTS, USA

 

EVENTS 

 

LONDON, UK

FRIEZE LONDON & FRIEZE MASTERS

© Sam Fogg, Frieze Masters 2024

 

This October, the art world converges on Regent’s Park as Frieze and Frieze Masters bring together 280 galleries from 45 countries. Spanning 6,000 years of art history to today’s most pioneering voices, the twin fairs cement London’s place at the heart of the global cultural calendar—with the art world’s leading names all in attendance.

October 15 - 19, 2025, Regent's Park, LONDON, UK

 

PARIS, FRANCE

Art Basel Paris

Art Basel Paris, Courtesy of Art Basel

 

Art Basel Paris returns to the Grand Palais, placing the city’s avant-garde legacy at the heart of the fair. Led by Clément Delépine, the 2025 edition brings together 206 international galleries, including 65 French exhibitors, spanning early masters to today’s most pioneering voices and offering Public Programs across nine iconic Parisian venues, initiatives and curated conversations with figures such as Edward Enninful.

October 24 - 26, 2025, Grand Palais, PARIS, FRANCE

 

LONDON, UK

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

Hashim Nasr, Blue Ecstasy, 2022, Archival pigment print 62.6 x 47.6 cm, A Leap into A Dream, Courtesy of the Artist and TINTERA

 

1-54, the leading fair dedicated to contemporary African art, returns to London with a dynamic mix of galleries, talks, and special projects. Making its debut at the fair, Cairo-based gallery TINTERA presents works by Ibrahim Ahmed and Hashim Nasr, exploring identity, gender, and exile through striking photographic tableaus and photomontages.

October 16 - 19, 2025, Somerset House, LONDON, UK

 

PARIS, FRANCE

Design Miami.Paris

Patinated brass floor lamp, c.1950 by Paavo Tynell for Galerie Eric Philippe at Design Miami.Paris 2025 (Image courtesy of Galerie Eric Philippe)

 

Design Miami.Paris returns for its 3rd edition, transforming the historic L’hôtel de Maisons into an immersive celebration of collectible design. Running alongside Art Basel Paris, the fair brings together over 25 international galleries, presenting rare and iconic works spanning modernist masters, postwar design, and contemporary innovation.

October 22 - 26, 2025, L’hôtel de Maisons, PARIS, FRANCE

 

LONDON, UK

The Decorative Fair, Battersea

Textile designer Katherine Pole's stand at the Decorative Fair 

 

Since 1985, The Decorative Fair has set the bar for stylish antiques and interior inspiration. Born from a boom in decorating and a hunger for impactful, affordable pieces, the Fair championed what became known as ‘decorative antiques.’ Exhibitors were urged to dazzle with imaginative displays, drawing designers, decorators, and eager clients in droves. Four decades on, it remains a trailblazer.

Through October 5, 2025, Evolution London, LONDON, UK

 

VENICE, ITALY

TEMPORA - Venice Design Week 2025

RB04 Raphael Boscarato for Venice Design Week

 

Venice Design Week returns for its 16th edition, transforming the city into a stage for design and creativity. Under the theme TEMPORA, the 2025 program spans exhibitions, talks, workshops, and installations across museums, galleries, artisan studios, and public spaces.

October 11 - 19, 2025, city-wide, VENICE, ITALY

 

LONDON, UK

PAD London

Laffanour / Galerie Downtown at PAD London 2024 © Lucy Hawkins

 

PAD London returns to Mayfair, bringing together the world’s leading galleries in a refined setting that inspires collectors, curators, and design lovers alike—celebrating the dialogue between past and present, and shaping the most striking interiors.

October 14 - 19, 2025, Berkeley Square, LONDON, UK

 

LONDON, UK

ECHO SOHO

Manette Street © Echo Soho

 

Coinciding with Frieze, Echo Soho makes its debut with its inaugural edition bringing together 12 pioneering female-led galleries under one roof. Spanning painting, sculpture, textiles, and site-specific installations, the fair champions resourcefulness, representation, and resonance—cementing its place as a fresh new voice on the art fair calendar.

October 16 - 19, 2025, Artist’s House on Manette Street, LONDON, UK