STEVE MCCURRY – RETROSPECTIVE
BIRMINGHAM

You may not know the name but you’ll certainly know his work. Responsible for some of the world’s most famous photographs – including perhaps the most recognisable, Afghan Girl – US photojournalist Steve McCurry’s unique talent has taken him to war zones around the world, capturing the human consequences of conflict. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is the sole UK venue for this retrospective of his work, which runs until 17 October. www.bmag.org.uk

LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS/PROMS IN THE PARK
LONDON AND UK

The eight-week classical music festival comes to a close with the traditional pomp and revelry of The Last Night of the Proms. Thousands of Prommers will fill the Royal Albert Hall in London on 11 September for the annual flag-waving fest, but for those not lucky enough to get a ticket, this year’s satellite event, Proms in the Park, will have concerts in London, Swansea, Hillsborough, Dundee and Salford, while the BBC will be showing all the action on big screens around the country. All Proms in the Park events will off er individual concert programmes, linking up live with the Royal Albert Hall for the grand finale. www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010

CLAUDE MONET (1860-1926)
PARIS

From 22 September to 24 January 2011, Galeries Nationales at the Grand Palais will be home to the largest exhibition in 30 years devoted to the father of impressionism, featuring more than 200 works – both famous and lesser-known pieces. With off erings from foreign collections and the Musee d’Orsay, the exhibition thematically and chronologically displays the career of Monet from 1860 and his early years in Paris, through years at Argenteuil on the Seine where he painted some of his best-known works, to the prolific 1880s, 1890s and 1900s with his numerous landscape, seascape and landmark ‘series’, and culminates in his famous Water Lilies cycles created in his beloved garden in Giverny. www.rmn.fr/Galeries-nationales-du-Grand

ALSO ON THIS MONTH

N AMERICA

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters begins The Wall Live tour – the first time the entire album has been performed by any band member since Waters in July 1990 to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall. Starting in Canada on 15 September, he crosses the US, finishing in Mexico in December. The European leg begins in March. tour.rogerwaters. com

VENICE

The Venice International Film Festival returns for its annual canal trip from 1–11 September, with this year’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement destined for the mantelpiece of director John Woo. www.labiennale.org/en/cinema

NEW YORK

After its acclaimed UK run, Emma Rice’s production of Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter hits Broadway on 10 September. Combining theatre and film, it will run until December. www.roundabout.theatre.org

MUNICH

Grab your beer mug and lederhosen its Oktoberfest again. From 18 Sept to 4 October, Bavaria’s capital will come alive with the usual folk singing and thigh slapping of the 200-year-old festival. www.oktoberfest.de

WORLDWIDE

After much shifting of release dates, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has finally made it to cinema screens. 20th Century Fox will be hoping it was on the money to hold back what had seemed like a rather fortuitously timed sequel six months ago. From 22 September. wallstreetmoney www.neversleeps.com

MADRID

Having already visited London and Paris, this is your last chance to see Turner and the Masters. The exhibition features paintings not at the previous two shows, as well as works by other artists, including Rembrandt and Rubens, never shown in Spain. Until 19 September. www.museodelprado.es