This Week’s Major Events: Top Antique & Art Fairs from New York to Boston to San Francisco to Paris

October 20-26, 2015

NEW YORK

Jacob A. Riis: Unveiling New York’s Other Half, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
On view through March 20, 2016
Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a pioneering newspaper reporter and social reformer in New York at the turn of the 20th century. His then-novel idea of using photographs of the city’s slums to illustrate the plight of impoverished residents established Riis as forerunner of modern photojournalism. Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half features photographs by Riis and his contemporaries, as well as his handwritten journals and personal correspondence. This is the first major retrospective of Riis’s photographic work in the U.S. since the City Museum’s seminal 1947 exhibition The Battle with the Slum, and for the first time unites his photographs and his archive. Click here to continue reading.

Picasso/Vollard: Prints from the Stock of the Artist’s Publisher, Adelson Galleries, New York, NY
On view through November 14, 2015
The relationship between Picasso and art dealer, Ambroise Vollard began in Paris in 1901, when Vollard gave the artist his first one-man show. Vollard later acquired the copper plates for Picasso’s 1904-05 series of prints evoking the lives of street performers, which he published in 1913 in a large edition, known as La Suite des saltimbanques. A small number of proofs of each subject were printed in 1905, and Vollard had two or three additional proofs printed from each plate before having the plates steel-faced. The exhibition includes several proofs, including the finest impression known of a classic Blue Period image of a seated clown, Le Saltimbanque au repos. Click here to continue reading.

Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
On view through January 10, 2016
Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet is the first major U.S. exhibition to explore the introduction of art brut to America. The nearly two hundred works of art on view, by both canonical and lesser-known art brut figures, were amassed and identified as art brut by French artist Jean Dubuffet, beginning in 1945. The selection is drawn exclusively from the renowned Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland, where Dubuffet donated his collection in 1971. The exhibition reflects on two seminal but unexplored moments in mid-twentieth century America: between 1952 and 1962, 1,200 works from Dubuffet’s art brut collection were displayed in the East Hampton estate of his friend, the artist and collector Alfonso Ossorio. Slightly prior to their installation, in December 1951, Dubuffet delivered a provocative speech titled “Anticultural Positions” at the Arts Club of Chicago, which challenged established ideas about art analysis and modes of creation. Click here to continue reading.

Wendell Castle Remastered, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
October 20, 2015-February 28, 2016
Wendell Castle Remastered will be the first museum exhibition to examine the digitally crafted works of Wendell Castle, acclaimed figure of the American art furniture movement. A master furniture maker, designer, sculptor, and educator, Castle is now in the sixth decade of a prolific career that began in 1958—one that parallels the emergence and growth of the American studio craft movement. In this solo exhibition, Castle casts a critical eye toward the first decade of his own artistic production by creating a new body of work that revisits his groundbreaking achievements of the 1960s through a contemporary lens. Click here to continue reading.

The International Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
October 23-29, 2015
The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show, founded in 1989, was New York's first vetted fair and remains one of the world's most prestigious art and antique fairs.  The glamorous, world-class showcase consistently attracts leading international dealers with an outstanding selection of superb works of art, featuring everything from antiquities to contemporary art.  Categories represented include silver, arms and armour, bronzes, rare books, carpets, ethnographica, furniture, garden furniture, glass, jewelry, maps, manuscripts, marine artefacts, pictures, porcelain, pottery and sculpture.  All items are for sale under the strictest vetting conditions. The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will be the beneficiary of the funds raised at The Opening Night. Click here to continue reading.

CONNECTICUT

Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
On view through January 24, 2016
Focusing on New York in the 1970s and early 80s, Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls will explore the vibrant and tumultuous era of change through the work of Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe, both of whom created significant bodies of work in self-portraiture, in which particular disguises, characters and ambiguous personalities are evoked. The first dual museum exhibition to feature these two visionary artists, Guise & Dolls will include the artists’ portraits of each other, self-portraits and a selection of iconic portraits of sitters that address role-playing and gender roles–masculinity, femininity and androgyny. Click here to continue reading.

Wilton Fall Antiques Market, Wilton High School Field House, Wilton, CT
October 25, 2015
Bringing back a classic with a fresh twist! A full day of shopping with a wide variety of exhibitors and material, spend the day rediscovering how much fun it is to explore each booth in depth. With a cafe to keep your energy up, an on site shipper for your large purchases and tables full of courtesy antiques publications to inspire your inner designer, you'll have a grand old time! Click here to continue reading.

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston International Fine Art Show, The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
October 22-25, 2015
The Boston International Fine Art Show is New England's premier show and sale of historic, modern and contemporary fine art.  A show like BIFAS requires the participation of hundreds of individuals and businesses to bring you one spectactular weekend.  We especially thank our Exhibitors, without whom there would be no show.  Please support their efforts through your purchases and keep the finest in fine art coming to Boston! A Gala Preview on Thursday evening October 22 will benefit the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. Enjoy exquisite cuisine, fine wine and music and be among the first to select from a dazzling array of historic, modern and contemporary art. Click here to continue reading.

#ArtsMatter Day, Various Locations, MA
October 23, 2015
On #ArtsMatterDay October 23, the creative community will flood social media with images and videos celebrating why arts matter in Massachusetts. Get ready for how you're going to celebrate. Leading up to the day, think about how you'll show and tell us why #ArtsMatter to you. Click here to continue reading.

VIRGINIA

Georgia O’Keeffe: A Place of Her Own, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
October 21, 2015-January 3, 2016
Welcome to the finale of a series of exhibitions pairing favorites from the Chrysler Collection with generous loans from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This show explores the enchanting works of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe. A deep appreciation for nature guided O'Keeffe's work and gives her a unique place in the history of modern art. Her bold, close-up depictions of plants and flowers shocked early viewers but ultimately earned respect from the male-dominated New York art establishment.Click here to continue reading.

TEXAS

Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting, Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
On view through January 3, 2016
For more than five hundred years, the Alba family has formed part of the most important aristocratic lineages in Europe, not only because of its military, political, and social significance, but also due to the relevance of its cultural patronage and its art collecting. Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting will display some of the finest examples from this collecting tradition, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries up to the end of the twentieth century, in a display of continuity unparalleled by other large European collections. Currently, the Alba family keeps its collections of paintings, sculptures, antiquities, furniture, tapestries, and all types of decorative art in three splendid palaces that historically belong to the lineage. Click here to continue reading.

OHIO

New Wing Opening, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
October 25, 2015
This October, Columbus Museum of Art opens our new wing to friends, family, and all of central Ohio. Be here for the coolest opening in town during the Grand Opening celebrations, which include  Art Celebration on October 22 honoring the donors who declared Art Matters and made the expansion a reality, and the exclusive, members-only mega preview party of the decade on October 24. And the free Community Grand Opening on October 25. Inaugural New Wing exhibitions include Keeping Pace: Eva Glimcher and Pace Columbus andImperfections by Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954-1966. Click here to continue reading.

CALIFORNIA

San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
October 22-25, 2015
The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show is the oldest continuously operating international art and antiques show on the West Coast. The Show features approximately sixty dealers from across the United States and Europe, offering for sale an extraordinary range of fine and decorative arts from around the world representing all styles and periods, including furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, jewelry, rugs, textiles, paintings, prints, photography, books, sculpture and objets d’art. The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show is vetted in cooperation with the Antiques Dealers Association of California to ensure the highest quality merchandise. The Fall Antiques Show Opening Night Preview Gala has been called “the highlight of the San Francisco Social Season” and attracts over 2,000 patrons of the arts who come to shop, to mix and mingle and to enjoy an evening of great food, drink, art and antiques. Click here to continue reading.

PARIS

 FIAC International Fair of Contemporary Art, Grand Palais, Paris
October 22-25, 2015
The launch of OFFICIELLE and FIAC’s 42st edition are the opportunity to discover a rich artistic programme in Paris and throughout France. Since 2006, FIAC presents a programme of outdoor works in the Tuileries Garden in association with the Domaine National du Louvre et des Tuileries. The implication which both artists and galleries manifest in this programme and the exceptional qualities of the site makes it possible to feature some twenty projects every year. Click here to continue reading.