Klimt’s 150th anniversary offers an opportunity to see the City of Vienna’s collection in its entirety for the first time, helping us to appreciate the sheer diversity of an artist at the threshold of the 19th to the 20th century. Especially the drawings – sketches for his major works as well as independent erotic sheets – allow a fascinating view from within of Klimt’s development and working methods: a close-up of an artist.

The exhibition David Hockney: A Bigger Picture presents a group of recent works by the noted British artist that were inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape. Approximately 200 pieces, most of which are large-format creations from the past six years, will be displayed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain) alongside selected works produced between 1956 and 2000, which evidence Hockney's tireless research into and fascination with the landscape.

The Heinrich Ehrhardt gallery (Madrid, Spain) presents the first solo exhibition in Spain of German artist Astrid Klein (Cologne, 1951). Close to a certain group of artists whose generation played a really significant role in the development of European art in recent decades, the early works of Klein are part of a time and a place where she and other figures such as Martin Kippenberger or Georg Herold discover other ways of developing new German art. 

The Art Institute of Chicago (USA) explodes with the energy of Roy Lichtenstein in the largest exhibition of the seminal Pop artist to date.

Organized by the Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom) Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist is the largest-ever exhibition of his ground-breaking studies of the human body, which will take place at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace through October 7, 2012.