Gagosian Gallery will present Ed Ruscha - Artistic Excellence Award. Every October, Americans for the Arts leads the country as we celebrate our cultural riches through National Arts and Humanities Month.

Fort Worth Opera will stage Hansel And Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck sung in English playing on December 11 and 12, 2009, at the Rose marine theatre.

Sydney Opera House will play Jouissance playing on 2009-10-11, at the Utzon Room.

Opera North, England will host a performance of Amsterdam String Quartet on Sunday, 25th Oct 2009, at 3.00pm.

Royal Opera House, London together with the Royal Ballet will present Mayerling. From the outset Kenneth MacMillan pushed ballet beyond the boundaries of fairytale kingdoms. Nowhere is this more compellingly successful than in Mayerling.

Washington National Opera will present Falstaff composed by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Arrigo Boito, sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Opera Colorado, Denver will present The Barber of Seville running for approximately 3 hours.

National Maritime Museum, London invites for Halloween events at the Queen's House and Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Queen's House - Haunted House family fun day taking place on 31 October, from 11.30 to 16.00.

Royal Opera House, London together with the Royal Ballet will stage "The Sleeping Beauty" running for 3 hours. Generous philanthropic support from Lady Jarvis. Made possible (2006) by The Linbury Trust and the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund with additional support from The Dalriada Trust, Simon and Virginia Robertson, Marina Hobson MBE and Dianne and Michael Bienes.

"Pop Life: Art in a Material World" is the name of the exhibition coming to Tate Modern on October 1, 2009 and remaining on view through January 17, 2010.

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem will run an exhibition named "Tyeb Mehta – Barnett Newman: Encounter" on view from April 10, 2010 to April 10, 2011.