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 and design.

BY MILA WOLPERT & CABANA EDITORS | HAPPENINGS | 1 OCTOBER 2024 

René Tavares, Retrato de família no quintal da antiga roça, 2024, Mixed media on canvas, 167 x 200 cm. Courtesy of THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE

Discover our Global Cultural Bulletin: Cabana’s highly curated roster of unmissable exhibitions and events. The October calendar is full of fairs, from The Decorative Fair, PAD London, to Frieze Masters, Frieze London, Design.Miami, Paris and The Art Show.

A couple of exhibitions will celebrate major anniversaries, including the Caillebotte show at the Musée d’Orsay - which will take place 130 years after the artist’s passing - and the Moderna Museet exhibition that marks 100 years since the publication of French poet André Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto. With Fall in full swing, this list will surely set you on the right cultural path.

EXHIBITIONS

LONDON, UK

SYNCRETIC VOICES: Art & Design in South Asian Diaspora at Fonthill Pottery

Furniture by Pierre Jeanneret, private home © Genevieve Lutkin, styling Olivia Elias.

Collector Rajan Bijlani will hold his inaugural show, Syncretic Voices, at Fonthill Pottery, the former home and studio of the late ceramist, Emmanuel Cooper. The exhibition is co-curated by Michael Jefferson (Christie’s) and Truls Blaasmo, art advisor to Gucci, and highlights artists and designers of South Asian origin. A range of art, objects, and furniture will be displayed throughout Bijlani’s historic London townhouse, engaging with the rich history of arts embedded in the building itself.

October 7 - November 1, 2024, Fonthill Pottery, LONDON, ENGLAND

PARIS, FRANCE

Caillebotte: Painting men at the Musée d’Orsay

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Rue de Paris; temps de pluie [Rue de Paris, temps de pluie], 1877, The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; Image courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago

The Musée d’Orsay presents an exhibition dedicated to Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), which is part of a larger project inspired by the recent acquisition of two of Caillebotte’s major works. The Getty Museum acquired Caillebotte’s Young Man at His Window and the Musée d’Orsay added A Boating Party to its collection. The show is also centered on the artist’s masterpiece, Paris Street; Rainy Day, which is on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition was organized to take place in the year of the 130th anniversary of Caillebotte’s passing. It examines the artist’s predilection for masculine forms and portraits of men, and investigates his remarkably radical modernity.

October 8, 2024 - January 19, 2025, Musée d’Orsay, PARIS, FRANCE

LONDON, UK

Nacho Carbonell: Escaping Forward

Nacho Carbonell, 'Under A Light Tree', 201. Photo by Alex Grazioli. Courtesy Carpe

Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, presents Escaping Forward, a solo exhibition by Spanish artist Nacho Carbonell, which marks a new chapter in his work. This exhibition invites visitors to experience the evolution of Carbonell’s career as he continues to experiment with new themes, techniques, and materials, while staying true to his core foundations. Escaping Forward touches on themes like memory, texture and materiality and displays new works made out of a collage-like approach from recycled materials, such as metal, glass, and mesh.

October 8, 2024 - January 11, 2025, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, LONDON, UK

PHILADELPHIA, USA

Juxtaposed: Jomo Tariku

Jomo Tariku, Meedo Bronze Chair, Courtesy of Wexler Gallery

Renowned Ethiopian artist, Jomo Tariku, opens his first solo show, inviting visitors to explore his inspirations across African design. Juxtaposed will survey Tariku’s creative processes developed over thirty years, showcasing his practice that incorporates past and present techniques anchored in the artist’s heritage. As a nod to a tradition most material artists in Ethiopia uphold, Tariku’s work has historically been limited to wood. This new series, however, expands his practice by introducing modern materials into his work, like metal, plastic, and leather.

October 10 - December 20, 2024, Wexler Gallery, PHILADELPHIA, USA

BOSTON, USA

Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore

Red Tree, Yellow Sky, 1952, Georgia O’Keeffe © 2024 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artist Rights Society (ARS) / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

In an unprecedented exhibition, American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) and British sculptor Henry Moore (1898-1986) are united to explore their shared desire to turn nature into abstraction. Both artists experimented with unusual perspectives, changes in scale, and layered compositions to create works that drew upon their surroundings - O’Keeffe in New Mexico and Moore in Hertfordshire. This show includes faithful recreations of the artists’ studios including their tools and found objects. The studio installations reveal the heart of their artistic creation and offer rare insight that is not normally visible in museum spaces.

October 13, 2024 - January 20, 2025, MFA Boston, BOSTON, MA, USA

NEW YORK, USA

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 at The Met

Duccio di Buoninsegna Italian, active by 1278–died 1318, Siena, The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain ca. 1308 – 11; Frick Collection, New York © Copyright The Frick Collection / photo Michael Bodycomb

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 is the first major exhibition in America on Early Sienese art. This landmark show looks into an exceptional moment at the onset of the Italian Renaissance and the central role of Sienese artists in shaping Western painting. Artists like Duccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini were essential figures in Siena at the site of phenomenal artistic innovation and production. More than 100 works will be on show, hailing from The Met and National Gallery, London’s collections, as well as from other major lenders. Exhibited pieces will include paintings, sculptures, metalwork, and textiles.

October 13, 2024 - January 26, 2025, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NEW YORK, USA

BILBAO, SPAIN

Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim Bilbao

Hilma af Klint, The Evolution, The WUS/Seven-Pointed Star Series; Courtesy The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm, Hak 84, Bilbao 2024

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Hilma af Klint, a survey of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s career and oeuvre with a focus on her breakthrough years from 1906 to 1920. In 1906, the artist started producing radically abstract paintings, a drastic move away from her traditional pictorial training. The Museum describes how af Klint found visual expression for a spiritual reality beyond the observable and physical world, a perspective that led her to choose to keep her work away from the public and mainstream artworld. As a result, af Klint’s work was largely unseen until 1986 and only began to receive attention in the following decades. 

October 18, 2024 - February 2, 2025, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, BILBAO, SPAIN

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

The Subterranean Sky: Surrealism in the Moderna Museet Collection

Meret Oppenheim, Min guvernant – My Nurse – Mein Kindermädchen, 1936/1967 © Meret Oppenheim/Bildupphovsrätt 2024, Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Moderna Museet honors the 100-year-anniversary of French poet André Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto with an exhibition that highlights its world famous Surrealist collection. A curation of iconic paintings and sculptures illustrate the Surrealist movement and its influence over time. Surrealism was an intellectual, literary, and artistic movement that explored the mind and championed the irrational. Artists on display, among others, include Rebecca Horn, Renée Magritte, Joan Miró, Robert Rauschenberg, and Dorothea Tanning.

October 26, 2024 - October 1, 2026, Moderna Museet, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

EVENTS

LONDON, UK

The Decorative Arts Fair, Battersea

Katharine Pole Stand, Courtesy of The Decorative Fair

The Decorative Fair is a favorite destination for designers, decorators, and private clients: 130 stands will present their eye-catching pieces at the Fair’s Autumn 2024 edition. Items date from the 1700s to the 1970s and cover categories such as accessories, lighting, textiles, garden antiques, and collectors’ items. If you are in the market for fine English silverware, Gustavian antiques, intriguing objets d’art, antique textiles, or natural history objects - and much more - this event is a must.

October 1 - 6, 2024, Battersea Park, LONDON, ENGLAND

LONDON, UK

PAD LONDON, Berkeley Square

Oak by Ernst Gamp, Courtesy of Sarah Myerscough Gallery and PAD London. Photo credit by Bernhard Spöttel

PAD London has set itself apart as the sole fair in the UK exclusively dedicated to 20th-century and contemporary design. Located in a refined setting in Mayfair’s iconic Berkeley Square, the fair is designed to inspire collectors, art consultants, museum curators, interior specialists, design practitioners and the public. The fair has become synonymous with connoisseurship, exquisite taste, and style since its founding in 2007. Visitors to PAD will have the chance to take in unique and striking interiors, surrounded by incredible design from the world’s leading galleries.

October 8 - 13, 2024, Berkeley Square, LONDON, ENGLAND

LONDON, UK

Frieze Masters and Frieze London

Kunié Sugiura Carnegie Hall, 1977, Photo emulsion on canvas, 149.9 x 89.9 cm © Kunié Sugiura. Courtesy of Taka Ishii

Gallery Frieze Masters and Frieze London will take place concurrently this month in Regent’s Park. Frieze London will unveil a ground-breaking new floorplan by design practice A Studio Between with a reconfigured layout and entrance. Frieze Masters will follow an artist-centered approach and debut a refined floorplan by Annabelle Selldorf. Special events will return to the fairs this year, including the Frieze London Artist Award and Frieze Masters Talks. Curator of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Pablo José Ramírez, organized Smoke, a new section displaying ceramics that look into diasporic and indigenous histories.

October 9 - 13, 2024, Regent’s Park, LONDON, ENGLAND

LONDON, UK

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

René Tavares, Retrato de família no quintal da antiga roça, 2024, Mixed media on canvas, 167 x 200 cm. Courtesy of THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to Somerset House for its 12th consecutive year with the highest number of new galleries participating since the fair’s inception. 1-54 is the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora. This year, the fair will host over 60 international exhibitors with over a third of the participants from the African continent. The 12th edition focuses on artists from Morocco, Ghana, and Brazil, celebrating the dynamic and evolving nature of contemporary African art.

October 10 - 13, 2024, Somerset House, LONDON, UK

LONDON, UK

City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge

Detail of a window at the Holy Sepulchre London Church, London. Image courtesy of  The City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge (CFMIK).

The City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge (CFMIK) arrives in London from 10-24 October 2024. This two-week celebration of music, creativity, and history will bring an exciting mix of world-class classical and jazz performances to the City. With a special focus on the music of Genoa's Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) , the festival highlights unique collaborations between London and Genoa, inspired by the Lord Mayor’s Ligurian heritage and "Connect to Prosper" theme.

October 10 - 24, 2024, spread across various Sir Christopher Wren Churches, LONDON, ENGLAND

PARIS, FRANCE

DESIGN MIAMI.PARIS

Galerie kreo at Design Miami Paris 2023. Image courtesy of James Harris for Design Miami Paris

Design Miami returns to Paris at the incredible L’hôtel de Maisons location for its second edition in the French capital. The fair will take place in the sumptuous 18th-century hôtel once home to celebrated fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. The urban mansion in the prestigious Faubourg Saint-Germain arrondissement will act as the backdrop to 20 collectible design galleries. The fair will pay homage to the legacy of Modernism through significant historic highlights. Special presentations to note include Galerie Maxime Flatry’s (Paris) display, which will explore different nuances of lacquer and its diverse treatments. Katsu Hamanaka’s masterful work will be exemplified through a Tripod lacquer pedestal table and a ‘bateau’ daybed by Jean Dunand will also be displayed. Two designs once owned by Karl Lagerfeld will be showcased, creating a conversation with the fashion icon’s former residence.

October 16 - 19, 2024, L’hôtel de Maisons, PARIS, FRANCE

PARIS, FRANCE

ART BASEL PARIS AT THE GRAND PALAIS

LEIKO IKEMURA, Double, 2021, tempera and oil on jute, 80 x 80 cm (31,5 x 31,5 inch), Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery

Art Basel Paris will be held at the newly renovated Grand Palais, an exciting setting for the world’s premier art fair for Modern and contemporary art. The show’s third edition features 195 leading galleries from 42 countries and territories with 53 new participants. The fair aims to reinforce its commitment to the city’s dynamic cultural landscape by renaming the show to Art Basel Paris. It will be sectioned into three sectors: Galeries, where exhibitors present their full programs; Emergence, composed of emerging galleries and artists; and the new Premise sector, which includes nine galleries who will present remarkable curatorial presentations.

October 18 - 20, 2024, Grand Palais, PARIS, FRANCE

NEW YORK, USA

World Monument Fund’s 2024 Hadrian Gala

Wide Shot of Rainbow Room, Photo by Ben Rosser

World Monuments Fund (WMF) is dedicated to safeguarding the world’s most treasured places. The organization recognizes heritage’s ability to better people’s lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. The 2024 Hadrian Gala at the New York Public Library celebrates WMF’s work and champions extraordinary leaders who dedicate their efforts to saving cultural heritage. This year, the Hadrian Gala honors American architect Peter Marino and noted art historian and author, Dr. Marilyn Perry. Tickets are on sale until October 9.

October 28, 2024, The New York Public Library, NEW YORK, USA

NEW YORK, USA

The Art Show at the Park Avenue

Armory Chase Hall, The Autodidact, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Prints

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) proudly presents the 36th annual edition of The Art Show, one of America’s longest-running and leading philanthropic art fairs. Located in the Park Avenue Armory, an historic building that is part-palace and part-industrial shed, The Art Show will introduce a new initiative this year titled “Spotlight On…” which highlights a different city each year that represents a large cohort of ADAA members. This year’s edition will spotlight Houston, showcasing the city’s vibrant fine art community throughout the fair’s programming. Standout artists represented in the fair’s 36th year include Chase Hall with Pace Prints (New York, NY) and Isabella Ducrot with Petzel (New York, NY), among others.

October 29 - November 2, 2024, Park Avenue Armory, NEW YORK, USA