AUSTRIA
FILM: Vienna's International Film Festival, or Viennale, runs from October 22 to November 4, with British actress Tilda Swinton, winner of the 2008 Oscar for best supporting actress, as guest of honour. The programme, featuring over 300 movies, documentaries, and short-films, from around the world, including premieres, will be announced on October 13. www.viennale.at
MUSIC: Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang again in Vienna, at the city's famed Musikverein on October 6. The young artist will perform pieces by Joseph Haydn, Bela Bartok and Austrian composer Anton Webern, accompanied by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Indian conductor Zubin Mehta. www.musikverein.at
BOOKS/POETRY: A European festival of poetry, sponsored by the Austrian foreign ministry, brings together 17 poets from 15 countries to Vienna and Linz, one of the 2009 European capitals of culture, from October 5 to 7. A special anthology is to be published for the occasion, with poems by the participating artists in German and in their original language. www.literaturhaus.at
Tilda Swinton in Constantine
BRITAIN
MUSIC: World premiere of an exhibition dedicated to the late "King of Pop" Michael Jackson, featuring over 250 items from his career including one of his sequined gloves and his personal Rolls-Royce. Runs at the O2 in London from October 28 for a limited run. www.theo2.co.uk/general/michael-jackson-the-official-exhibition.html
BOOKS: First official Winnie the Pooh in 80 years to be published in Britain and the United States on October 5. "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood,” to be translated into 50 languages, is written by David Benedictus, illustrated by Mark Burgess, and continues the adventures of Winnie and Christopher Robin. www.egmont.co.uk
ART: "Pop Life: Art In A Material World" runs at Tate Modern in London from October 1 to January 17. This major exhibition of pop art explores how many of its artists have turned themselves into "brands" and features works by Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Keith Haring. www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/poplife/default.shtm
HISTORY: "Maharaja: The Splendour Of India's Royal Courts" at London's Victoria and Albert Museum from October 10 to January 17. The show brings together paintings, jewellery, furniture and textiles to illustrate the story of royal India up to 1947. www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/maharajas/index.html
"How to Dress an Elephant" video from Maharaja: The Splendour Of India's Royal Courts
ART: Damien Hirst displays a new collection of 25 paintings entitled "No Love Lost" at the Wallace Collection, one of London's most venerable and beautiful art galleries, from October 14 to January 24. www.wallacecollection.org/collections/exhibition/77
DENMARK
ART/ENVIRONMENT: Copenhagen exhibit "Nature Strikes Back" on man's relationship to nature as seen through centuries of art. Held at Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) ahead of the UN climate summit that opens December 7 in Copenhagen. From October 10 to March 7. www.smk.dk
ART: "The Haarlem Mannerists 1580-1600" is a broad selection of graphic works that provide a picture of a period in Dutch art when aestheticism and elaboration both in form and content were dominant. At Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark). From October 10 to January 17. www.smk.dk
FINLAND
FILM: The Viscult film festival features movies and documentaries that decribe different types of families. Films include Conor McCormick's "Christmas with Dad,” Jie Li's "The Al-Hadji and His Wives,” Laetitia Merli's "Shaman Tour" and Kiti Luostarinen's "Palna's Daughters.” In Joensuu October 8-11. www.pkey.fi/viscult/2009/
"Lower Left" Director: Holger Mohaupt Country: Scotland/Germany, 2008
BOOKS: The Helsinki Book fair presents nearly 900 writers -- including Leif GW Persson, Julia Franck, Serdar Oezkan and Karin Slaughter -- as well as talks, notablt with the Swedish and Finnish culture ministers debating cultural policy of the future. At the Helsinki Fair Centre. From October 22-25.
www.finnexpo.fi/kirja/default.asp?code_language=en
FRANCE
MUSIC: "We Want Miles,” opening 50 years after Miles Davis recorded "Kind of Blue,” is a retrospective on the 1926-1991 life of the jazz king, from his childhood years in East St. Louis to a concert in Paris that he gave shortly before his death. The show is being held at that same La Villette venue, at the Cite de la Musique. October 16 to January 17. www.cite-musique.fr
Louis XIV by Le Bernin, XVIIth century
HISTORY: The Chateau de Versailles is hosting the first big show on its own Louis XIV, with some 300 works gathered to portray the Sun King's public persona as well as his passion for art. From October 20 to February 7. www.chateauversailles.fr
ARCHEOLOGY: As London's British Museum highlights Aztec ruler Moctezuma II, Paris' newest museum, the Quai Branly, opens an exhibition on the pre-Colombian civilisation of ancient Mexico, Teotihuacan, with some 450 pieces mostly unseen in Europe previously. From October 6 to January 24. www.quaibranly.fr
ART: The Pompidou Centre in Paris pays homage to one of France's greatest living artists, Pierre Soulages, with a major retrospective of around 100 works held on the eve of his 90th birthday. From October 14 to March 8. www.centrepompidou.fr
GERMANY
BOOKS: The world's largest book fair opens in Frankfurt, with China as the guest of honour. Just under 7,000 exhibitors from around 100 countries are expected at the 61st version of the event, which last year attracted some 300,000 visitors. This year, the fair has already made headlines after an official Chinese delegation walked out in protest at a speech criticising Beijing. October 14 to 18. http://buchmesse.de/
THEATRE: Two giant marionettes between five and 15 metres high (16 to 49 feet) will march along the streets of Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The marionettes -- one from the east and one from the west -- are part of French theatre company Royal de Luxe and are expected to draw hundreds of thousands of fans. October 1 to 4. www.riesen-in-berlin.de/
HUNGARY
POETRY: Budapest is hosting the World Congress of Poets for four days through to October 1, with over 100 participants from across the globe, including Alain Lance of France, Eva Stroem of Sweden, Norway's Knut Odegard and Thailand's Hyou Si. Poems presented at the congress will be published in a special 150-page volume in English and Spanish. www.worldcongressofpoets.com
FESTIVAL: Budapest's 18th Autumn Festival will present a variety of art forms, from films to concerts, theatre and dance, from October 9 to 18. On the programme is a film series entitled "Sex in Art on Film" and a photo exhibit dedicated to recently deceased German choreographer Pina Bausch, along with a production of Austrian Nobel Prize laureate Elfriede Jelinek's play "Rechnitz" and Flemish theatre group Muziektheater Transparant.
ITALY
ART: Juxtaposing two painters from different times but with a same artistic ideal was the idea behind a first-of-its-kind show opening October 2 at the Galleria Borghese and bringing together works by Caravaggio (1571-1610) and Francis Bacon (1909-1992). Runs until January 24. www.galleriaborghese.it
Oslo's Film fra Soer: "The Stoning of Soraya M"
NETHERLANDS
ART: Around 120 rarely seen letters from Vincent Van Gogh on show at Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum from October 9 to January 3. www.vangoghmuseum.nl
NORWAY
FILM: Oslo's Film fra Soer (Films from the South) festival dedicated to cinema from Asia, Africa and Latin America runs October 8 to 18 with some 130 films screened at cinemas across the city. From October 8 to 18. www.filmfrasor.no
PORTUGAL
MUSIC: Portugal marks the 10th anniversary of the death of "fado" music diva Amalia Rodrigues with major exhibits tracing the career of a star described as the country's best overseas ambassador. At two Lisbon museums including the Berardo from October 6 to February 2. www.museuberardo.pt
ROMANIA
FILM: Animated film festival, Anim'est, this years pays homage to Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki as well as featuring short films banned by the country's former Communist leaders and focusing on films from the Balkans region, under the title Balkanimation. Film buffs too will get a chance to meet Mike Reiss of "The Simpsons Movie" and "Queer Duck.” From October 2 to 11. www.animest.ro
Animated film festival: "Mary and Max"
RUSSIA
ART: The Third Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, this year titled "Against Exclusion,” features the work of more than 80 artists from over 25 countries. www.3rd.moscowbiennale.ru
SPAIN
FESTIVALS: The city of Zaragoza celebrates its annual Pilar festival, which includes parades, religious processions, concerts, theatre performances, bullfights, fireworks displays and a handicrafts fair. From October 4 to 13. www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/turismo
ART: 19th century French painter Henri Fantin-Latour is the subject of a new exhibition at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. The 70 works include his copies of paintings by grand masters, self portraits, still lives and musical allegories. From September 29 to January 10. www.museothyssen.org
ARCHITECTURE: Madrid's Fundacion Telefonica pays homage to Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who designed numerous buildings for the Brazilian capital of Brasilia and was part of the team that designed the UN headquarters building in New York. From September 17 to November 22. www.fundacion.telefonica.es
SWEDEN
FOOD: Festival of Chocolate, featuring displays, samples and sales of all types of chocolate by Swedish and foreign makers and pastry chefs, as well as competitions for professionals and amateurs alike. At Nordiska Museet. From October 9-11. www.nordiskamuseet.se/choklad
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The world premiere of a Michael Jackson exhibition in London, the return of Winnie the Pooh, and the first show dedicated to Louis XIV at the site that symbolises his reign, the Chateau de Versailles.
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