Jan Gossaert, a native of Flanders (active 1503; died 1532), was one of the most startling and accomplished artists of the Northern Renaissance. "Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance" is the first exhibition dedicated to the artist for over 40 years, and presents the results of a complete re-examination of his work, including new technical discoveries. The exhibition features over 80 works, including many of the artist’s most important paintings, including the ‘Virgin and Child’ and ‘Hercules and Deianeira’. It also features drawings and contemporaneous sculptures of the Northern Renaissance. The National Gallery has one of the largest and finest collections of Gossaert’s paintings in the world –a highlight being The Adoration of the Kings (1515). This exhibition allows them to be set in the context of the full range of the artist’s work, from the fruits of his early visit to Rome to the unusually erotic presentation of the nude in his Adam and Eve series.

British Museum (Londres)
Picasso to Julie Mehretu. Modern drawings from the British Museum collection
7 de octubre del 2010 – 25 de abril del 2011

The British Museum has an unparalleled collection of graphic art from across the world, and actively collects modern and contemporary works today. Collected over the past 35 years, this exhibition showcases many of the great artists of the 20th century, starting with Picasso’s study for his masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that shook the art world in 1907. It also features works by E. L. Kirchner, Otto Dix, Matisse, Magritte, David Smith and Louise Bourgeois and major contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter and William Kentridge. The exhibition concludes with Julie Mehretu, the Ethiopian-born artist who is one of the stars of the international contemporary art scene with acclaimed solo exhibitions at the Guggenheim in New York and across the world.

Wallace Collection (Londres)
Esprit et Vérité: Watteau and His Circle
12 de marzo - 5 de junio del 2011

The exhibitions will consist of a redisplay of the great Watteau canvasses in the Wallace Collection, in the intimate setting of the West Gallery at Hertford House; and downstairs, in the Collection’s Exhibition Galleries, significant masterworks of the 17th and 18th centuries by artists, including Rembrandt, Rubens, Greuze and Vernet, drawn from the collection of Watteau’s publisher and most important dealer, Jean de Jullienne. The relationship between Watteau, the most influential artist of his time, and Jean de Jullienne, one of France’s most significant art collectors, represents a key moment in the development of French 18th-century painting and patronage. Within his short career, Watteau (1684-1721) changed the course of painting. He revitalized the Baroque style, and invented the fête galante, a novel category of genre painting depicting pastoral and idyllic compositions where stage characters of the French and Italian comedies mingle with fashionable contemporaries.

Reiss-Engelhorn Museen (Mannheim)
The Return of the Gods. Berlin's Hidden Olympus
13 de junio del 2010 - 13 de junio del 2011

The exhibition 'The Return of the Gods. Berlin's Hidden Olympus in Mannheim' presents to the public unique treasures from the National Museums' Collection of Classical Antiquities, recently on show again for the first time in several decades. The artefacts each have an eventful past to speak of; most of them were once classified as 'cultural artefacts displaced due to the war', which were handed back to East Germany by the Soviet Union in 1958. For the next five decades they lay dormant in storage, out of sight from the public's gaze. The magnificent artworks have been restored to their radiant state once again after a period of extensive restoration. The exhibition brings together artworks of the finest quality from the period ranging from the 7th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The works, taken from various epochs, show how the appearance of the individual gods altered over the course of time and how they were adapted to fit the dominant ideal of beauty or taste of their day.

Alte Pinakothek (Munich)
Vermeer in Munich
17 de marzo - 19 de junio del 2011

At the beginning of the 19th century, the first king of Bavaria, Max I Joseph (1756-1825), amassed a private art collection of the highest quality. He focused almost exclusively on 17th century Dutch masters, mostly landscapes and genre paintings. To these he added the works of contemporary painters in Munich who were inspired by such Old Masters. In December 1826, the private royal collection was sold at auction. Some exceptional works were acquired for the state collections; others found their way to the Alte Pinakothek via roundabout routes - as part of Ludwig I's collection, for example; many are now scattered far afield. From today's point of view, the greatest loss is a masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer: "Woman Holding a Balance" of 1664. This exquisite work is returning to Munich from the National Gallery of Art in Washington for a three-month period. Surrounded by other exceptional paintings from the "Golden Age" - including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Willem van de Velde the Younger and Philips Wouwerman - it gives visitors the opportunity to discover Max I Joseph of Bavaria as a collector of Old Masters.

Museum of Modern Art (Nueva York)
Abstract Expressionist New York
3 de octubre del 2010 - 25 de abril del 2011

More than sixty years have passed since the critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term “Abstract Expressionism” to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. Over the years the name has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and David Smith. Beginning in the 1940s, under the aegis of Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., works by these artists began to enter the Museum’s collection. Thanks to the sustained support of the curators, the trustees, and the artists themselves, these ambitious acquisitions continued throughout the second half of the last century and produced a collection of Abstract Expressionist art of unrivaled breadth and depth. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s vast holdings, Abstract Expressionist New York underscores the achievements of a generation that catapulted New York City to the center of the international art world during the 1950s, and left as its legacy some of the twentieth century’s greatest masterpieces.