Those planning autumn travel around theater openings, art fairs and events find a trove of offerings in major cities around the world. In London, the art elite arrives to Regents Parks for Frieze Art Fair from October 15th that’s one of the world’s premiere contemporary shows with Frieze Masters that expands into the world of old masters. FKA Twigs, Paloma Faith and Kate Bush hit the London stage as well as Jools Holland who brings Joss Stone and Marc Almond in tow to Royal Albert Hall. Top theater openings in London include Sunny Afternoon that’s based on The Kinks while in New York you’ll find Hugh Jackman in Jez Butterworth’s The River and Bradley Cooper in The Elephant Man that compete with Lincoln Center’s ambitious remounting of The King and I.
Istanbul Biennale continues to run through November 1st while in San Francisco you’ll find one of the best design shows in the US at the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show from October 23rd. In Los Angeles, much of autumn revolves around the city’s narcissistic fixation with Halloween and the West Hollywood Carnival that’s the largest celebration of its kind anywhere on October 31st. More preferable to us is Lana del Rey in an actual cemetery, as the singer hosts two nights of concerts at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on October 16th. For something a bit more authentic, however, Mexico’s Día de los Muertos transforms charming rural towns like Yucatan’s Merida into a pageant of death where you’ll also find quaff Merida Residence by the owners of Coqui Coqui to lay your head - temporarily.
Fiac Paris opens on October 23rd while photography lovers will want to make their way to Paris Photo starting on November 13th that looks to be the largest edition of the photography show to date. At the Paris Opera you’ll find La Traviata and Tosca as well as Benjamin Millepied’s Rain at the Opera Ballet. In search of nature, there’s few times better to spot tigers in India’s Rajasthan than November with its harsh monsoon season finally over or perhaps surf the waves of Brazil’s Bahia where two new Fasano Hotels are in the works. And further south you’ll find summer beginning to set in as Buenos Aries hosts the world’s top polo stars at the Argentinian Polo Open in late-November just in time to make it back for Art-Basel Miami Beach on December 4th.
