10 ART EXHIBITIONS TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS OCTOBER

As the year comes to an end and the holiday draws closer give your self the time to unplug from the day-to-day and get the chance to explore the beauties and gracefulness of art to help boost your imagination and excitement of dynamic memories by visiting museums around your city.here are

some exhibitions you need to see this October.

Fantastical Prints in the 19th Century

Petit Palais – City of Paris’ Museum of Fine Arts

1st October 2015 – 17th January 2016

Le Petit Palais invites its walls in the National Library of France for the first season on the fantastic print. More than 170 works of Goya in Redon through Delacroix and Gustave Doré introduce the visitor in this universe omnipresent in engraving and lithography nineteenth century. The macabre to the fantastic bestiary , or inhabited landscape, to the representation of the dream or the nightmare : the triumph of the black!

Exhibition organized by the Petit Palais and the National Library Search of France

curators:

Valerie Sweat - Hermel , chief curator in the Department of Prints and Photography of the BNF , scientific curator of the exhibition

Gaëlle Rio , curator at the Petit Palais

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See more at www.petitpalais.paris.fr

Giacometti: Pure Presence

National Portrait Gallery

15th October 2015– 10th January 2016

Alberto Giacometti is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive artists of the twentieth century. 

A restless innovator, he explored a range of styles and subjects; and though he is most famous for his sculptures this 

major exhibition is the first to focus on Giacometti’s portraits and spans his entire career. The show includes important paintings, 

sculpture and drawings within sections devoted to each of his principal models, and illuminates Giacometti’s obsessive evocation of a human presence.

see more at: www.npg.org.uk

“Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist”

Whitney Museum of American Art

2nd October 2015 – 17th January 2016

Discover the true beauty of jazz interpreted Archibald Motley in his brilliant painting's at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Archibald Motley (1891—1981) was one of the most important figures associated with the Harlem Renaissance and is best known as both a master colorist and a radical interpreter of urban culture. Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist is the first full-scale survey of his paintings in two decades. The exhibition will offer an unprecedented opportunity to carefully examine Motley’s dynamic depictions of modern life in his home town, Chicago, as well as in Jazz Age Paris and Mexico. Specifically, it will highlight his unique use of both expressionism and social realism and will resituate this underexposed artist within a broader, art historical context. The exhibition will be presented in the sky-lit eighth floor galleries. 

See more at; whitney.org

Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

October 30, 2015 – February 21, 2016

As Africa evolves with the rest of the world the true natural beauty of African art and its design can not be more overwhelming in this exhibition of divine culture.The world as we know it is in transformation – politically, economically, socially, culturally and technologically. 

Anyone wanting to know how design can facilitate or even accelerate this change would be well advised to look to the south, especially at Africa, where the changes are very evident.Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design showcases works from a diverse range of creative fields: object and furniture design, graphic arts, illustration, fashion, architecture, urban planning, art, craft, film, photography, digital and analogue approaches.

See more: www.design-museum.de

Rome. Emperor Constantine’s Dream

3rd October 2015 – 7th February 2016

De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam

Now Amsterdam is no doubt one beautiful city either you are visiting or you live in the city this exhibition is something worth taking out the time be in attendant Emperor Constantine’s Dream. Art Treasures from the Eternal City comprises works loaned by institutions such as the Vatican Museums

which will illustrate one of the most fascinating themes from antiquity: the transformation of Rome in the fourth century AD from a multi-religious imperial capital full of temples with colossal statues of the emperor into the center of papal power dominated by churches with crosses under Emperor Constantine the Great.
See more at: www.nieuwekerk.nl

The Society of Wildlife Artists
29 Oct to 8 Nov,2015 10am - 5pm (closes 1pm on final day)

Submissions are invited to the Society of Wildlife Artists 52nd Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, 'The Natural Eye' 2015.
For more info:www.mallgalleries.org.uk/call-for-entries/open-exhibitions/society-wildlife-artists.


Frank Auerbach
Tate Britain: Exhibition
9 October 2015 – 13 March 2016

Tate Britain’s exhibition, featuring paintings and drawings from the 1950s to the present day, offers fascinating new insights into his work the artist suggesting the selection of the first six galleries. The depth, texture and sense of space in a painting by Auerbach makes standing in front of one a unique and unforgettable experience.
See more at: tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/frank-auerbach

Goya: The Portraits
Sainsbury Wing Exhibition
7 October 2015 – 10 January 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.
See more at;  nationalgallery.org.uk

Lagos Photo Festivals
From 23 October

Lagos the center of excellence has always been lively with a lot to offer when it comes to exhibitions
and true talent. Lagos Photo festival is a place you would love to be this October.
See more at; www.lagosphotofestival.com

CAPE TOWN FRINGE 2015:
Since 24 sep-4 October

The Fringe will once again be supported and hosted by the City of Cape Town.
“The City is extremely pleased to be in partnership with the National Arts Festival.
Cape Town, as a cultural capital, is a fitting host and we are proud to have the festival’s
hub at the City Hall which is one of our strategic assets. The City Hall has become a key venue
for local and international event organisers who are increasingly choosing it for a diverse range of cultural events, music shows and conferences.
See more: www.contemporaryand.com