10 to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead

'Rubens: A master in the making' which lay opens at the National Gallery, London, upon 26 October, analyses the disentanglement of the first fifteen years of the artist's career. when he visited Italy and then turn backed triumphantly to Antwerp. There are above 100 autograph works, including the Prado's St George and the Massacre of the Innocents. Until 15 January. (+44 [0] 870 906 3891)

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The Portland Art Museum's renovated North Building re-open upon 2 October. It includes a 'Center for novel and Contemporary Art' as well as a library. A of recent origin acquisition, Roy Lichtenstein's 10m-high statuary Brushstrokes (1996) is also upon show. (+1 503 226 2811)

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1000 facts and texts are on exhibit in 'Dada' at the midmost point Pompidou, including Arp's Tete dada (left 1920) The exhibition (5 October-9 January 2006) includes screenings of Duchamp's Anemic Cinema, Hans Richter's Rhythmus and other films. (+33 [0] 1 44 78 12 33)

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Marie-Antoinette's taste is examined at the Musee de Arts Decoratifs de Bordeaux, which is housed in the house of entertainment Lalande, built in the queen's lifetime. The Chateau de Versailles is lending furniture by dint of Riesener, portraits by Vigee-Lebrun and eighty other items. 'Marie-Antoinette Versailles' is upon show 21 October-30 January 2006 (+33 [0] 5 56 00 72 53)

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The International Art and Design Fair takes place 7-11 October at the Seventh Regiment Armory, fresh York. Jane Kahan, New York, has this tapestry designed by the agency of Miro (1933). The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers display follows, 21-27 October. (See Art Market, pp 88-94) www.haughton.com

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This armour of Willhelm, Reichsfreiherr von Roggendorf, 1523 is discussed in the next to the first International Arms and Armour discourse which takes place at the Landzeughaus, Graz, and the Kunsthistodsches Museum, Vienna, 6-8 October. (+44 [0] 7879 445394)

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'Fra Angelico' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first major retrospective of the artist in fifty years. Although his large altarpieces cannot travel, there are seventy-five smaller paintings upon show, accompanied by forty-five by the agency of his followers (26 October-29 January 2006) Right: his Paradise, c 1435-40 (+1 212 535 7710)

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Bonhams, London, is selling the Roy Davids Collection of portraits upon 3 October (on view also upon 2 October). The collection is of artists, writers and musicians, of the like kind as Thomas Hardy, Somerset Maugham (by Graham Sutherland, left) and T Hughes. (Enquiries: +44 [0] 20 7468 8392)

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The of recent origin renaissance and baroque galleries at the Waiters Art Museum, Baltimore, include expanses that resemble those of a seventeenth-century Dutch nobleman. A hall of arms and armour, a investigation and a wunderkammer, as well as paintings galleries, constitute the 'Palace of Wonders' (from 22 October). Luckily, you ne not be a nobleman to visit. (+1 410 547 9000)

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If Frieze (see 'Art Market', pp 88 94) does not exhaust you, then visit Art eau-de-cologne 28 October-1 November, where there will be 250 dealers from twenty-five countries. The fair is accompanied by the agency of exhibitions of Korean video art, and established artists who gained abundant exposure at the fair when young, like as Olafur Eliasson and Thomas Demand. www.artcologne.de

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