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FRIEZE/FRIEZE MASTERS
1st October 2019 – 6th October 2019
London's best known contemporary art fair, Frieze London, returns for its 17th consecutive year to Regent's Park this month, with over 160 of the most highly respected contemporary art galleries in the world, and over 1000 contemporary artists showing their works, all together under one roof. Frieze Masters, a showcase of Old Masters and Art up to the 20th century, is next door in a separate exhibition space. There is also a free to view sculpture park located in the English Gardens with 25 works by leading 20th century artists, performance pieces, talks, specially commissioned art works and curated exhibitions all packed into Regents Park, forming the heart of art week in London.
www.frieze.com
Regent's Park, London
GAUGIN PORTRAITS
7th October 2019 - 26th January 2020
This year, for the first time ever, The National Portrait Gallery will stage an exciting new exhibition which will explore Gaugin's life and work through his portraiture. Displaying approximately fifty original works from the mid-1880's and the Artist's life in France, through to his later and most infamous years spent in French Polynesia and finally up to his death in 1903; the exhibition will focus on how the artist moved away from Impressionism and towards Symbolism. Gaugin was able to make portraits that expressed meaning beyond the personalities of his sitters, sometimes by adding carefully selected attributes, others by placing his subject into a suggestive context. Included in the show is a group of self portraits which show how Gaugin created personifications including his self image as 'Christ in the Garden of Olives'. There is ticket availability, but it is advised to book in advance online to avoid disappointment.
 www.npg.org.uk
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
MOVING TO MARS
18th October 2019 – 23rd February 2020
Life on Mars could be more than just a fantasy in the not too distant future. Launching this month, is a new exhibition at the Design Museum in Kensington, which investigates how not only how we could arrive, and survive but also thrive on this planet which is only an eight month journey away from earth. Human inhabitation of Mars is a challenge for design as well as science. Every detail, from the food we could eat, to the tools we would use is thought through in this immersive installation, with a full scale habitat designed by architectural studios HASSEL, and featuring original objects from NASA, the European Space Agency and SpaceX as well as the first spacesuit designed specifically for the Mars surface. There is ticket availability but it is advised to book online in advance to avoid disappointment.
www.designmuseum.org
224-238 Kensington High Street, Kensington, London W8 6AG
INTO THE NIGHT: CABARETS AND CLUBS IN MODERN ART
4th October 2019 - 19th January 2020
This Autumn the Barbican Art Gallery launches a new exhibition, exploring the social and artistic role of Cabarets, cafes and clubs around the world from the 1880's to the 1960's. The exhibition offers an alternative history of Modern art that highlights the spirit of experimentation and collaboration between artists, performers, designers, musicians and writers, such as Toulouse Lautrec, Josephine Baker, Loie Fuller, Giacomo Bala and Josef Hoffman to name but a few. These creative spaces were incubators of radical thinking, where artists could exchange provocative ideas and create new forms of artistic expression. With over 350 works rarely seen in the UK, including paintings, drawings prints, photographs, films and archival material, there are also full scale recreations of specific spaces, such as the multicoloured ceramic tiled bar of Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna designed by Hoffman. There is ticket availability but it is advised to book in advance online to avoid disappointment.
www.barbican.org.uk
Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2 8DS
PRE-RAPHAELITE SISTERS
17th October 2019 – 26th January 2020
The Pre-Paphaelites were a Victorian group of artists who counted William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais among their founding members. This major new exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery, however, does not focus on the artists, but tells the untold stories of some of the women who were depicted in their art, 160 years after they were originally exhibited. Through a display of previously unseen works and an extraordinary collection of paintings, photographs, manuscripts and personal items, the exhibition explores how the women were far more than just models, but rather creative influences, models and muses. Some, were artists in their own right, while others helped to shape the development of the movement alongside their male counterparts, and without them, it could not have succeeded. There is ticket availability but it is advised to book in advance online to avoid disappointment.
www.npg.org.uk
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
COSTUME AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE
3rd October 2019 – 1st March 2020
Featuring costumes from War Horse, Follies, Anthony and Cleopatra and many more, Costume at the National Theatre shows just some of the exquisite outfits produced by the theatre's costume department. Working on everything from muddy uniforms to giant caterpillars, the costume department sources, creates, alters, repairs, organises and maintains costumes for over twenty new productions each year. The costume hire department also circulates costumes from its stock of 70,000 to films, photo shoots, and other theatre productions. The team of 46 people also has to consider practicalities such as how to fit an actor into a corset in under 60 seconds, or how to create an outfit that will allow a flying harness to fit underneath it, while allowing it to still look light and airy. The exhibition offers never seen before, behind the scenes insight into the skill, thought and dedication that goes into the garments that take centre stage, and invites you into the world of the people who create them. There is ticket availability but it is advised to book online in advance to avoid disappointment.
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, South Bank, London SE1 8XZ
MARY SIBANDE - I CAME APART AT THE SEAMS
3rd October 2019 - 5th January 2020
Mary Sibande is one of South Africa's most prominent contemporary artists. 'I Came Apart At The Seams, is Sibande's triumphant first solo exhibition in the UK. Formed from a series of 3D sculptures and striking photography, the exhibition at Somerset House, challenges stereotypical depictions of women in South Africa. Colour and textiles play a huge part in Sibande's work, with fiberglass sculptures dressed in elaborate handmade couture designs. the exhibition follows the transformative journey of Sibandes avatar, Sophie, who evolves from her humble beginnings as a domestic housemaid into myriad empowered characters transcending racial bias and marginalisation. This is a free exhibition.
www.somersethouse.org.uk
Terrace Rooms, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
LUCIAN FREUD - SELF PORTRAITS
27th October 2019 – 26th January 2020
This Autumn, The Royal Academy of Arts brings together more than 50 self portraits by Lucian Freud, in their Sackler Wing of Galleries. 'The Self Portraits' is the first exhibition to focus solely on his self portraits, and brings together artwork created in paint, print and pencil and etching plate. The works span seven decades and traces his development as a painter as well as his life, from the linear graphic style of his early career, to the fleshier, fuller portraits that made him a household name. In following his development from a young boy to an old man, the exhibition not only gives us an insight to the evolution of one of Britain's most prolific Portraitists, but also provides a candid study into the process of ageing. There is ticket availability but it is advised to book online in advance to avoid disappointment.
www.npg.org.uk
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
HALLOWEEN HIT -
LONDON HORROR FESTIVAL
8th October 2019 – 2nd November 2019
This Halloween Season, prepare to be spooked at the London Horror Festival, where highlights include multiple sell-out runs, world premieres by award winning new playwrights and critically-acclaimed performers, and a host of exciting new work for all ages and interest groups. The London Horror Festival runs through October, offering a multitude of horror performances at exactly the time of year when audiences most desire it. The programmes always include a number of shows which can be considered 'family friendly' as well as some good old spine chilling horror for the more mature crowd. Promising a broad range of horror theatre, programmes include, new writing, adaptations of literary classics, immersive interactive experiences, musicals, opera, burlesque, comedy, clowning, magic, storytelling, midnight mind reading, seance shows and film screenings featuring live choirs, so prepare for your spine to be chilled! there is ticket availability but it is advised to book in advance online to avoid disappointment.
www.londonhorrofestival.co.uk
Locations around London.
ONE TO WATCH -
DEAR EVAN HANSEN, NOEL COWARD THEATRE.
29th October 2019 – 7th March 2020
The fabulous Tony Award-winning musical about a teenage outcast comes to the West End this October. With music by Oscar and Grammy winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul - the Academy Award-winning composers of La La Land and The Greatest Showman; the show tells the story of a lonely teenager who inadvertently becomes a social media sensation. Actor Ben Platt reprises the role he became a star playing on Broadway, and the West End run also reunites the original creative team who won six Tony Awards and the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. There is limited ticket availability, but it is strongly advised to book in advance online as they are highly sought after. There are also returns daily on the door.
www.agttickets.com
Noel Coward Theatre, St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4AU
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