The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium organises, in collaboration with the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, an exhibition on Surrealism in Paris. Together, they provide an important overview of some of the most famous artists of the twentieth century: Hans Arp, Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Joan Miró, Meret Oppenheim, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso and Yves Tanguy.

Ricardo Fornesa, President of Honour of "la Caixa", and Plácido Arango, President of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Prado Museum, have presented at Caixaforum Barcelona the exhibition Goya. Lights and Shadows, the most complete retrospective to be devoted to the Spanish great master in Barcelona in more than three decades.

The exhibition project Pacific Standard Time. Art in Los Angeles 1950-1980 traces the development of the Los Angeles art scene during the post-war period, when the city on the Pacific hosted an impressively varied and versatile art scene, thus proving that it was more than Hollywood and a sprawling metropolis in the land of sunshine and palm trees.

Two large-scale group portraits from the Dutch Golden Age can bee seen now at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (USA). The portraits, on long-term loan from the Rijksmuseum and the Amsterdam Museum, provide an extraordinary opportunity for visitors to enjoy a type of Dutch painting rarely seen outside the Netherlands.

Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude is a National Gallery (London, United Kingdom) exhibition created in collaboration with Tate Britain, which will be on view from tomorrow until June 5, 2012
Turner admired Claude Lorrain most of all the Old Masters and enthused about the quality of light in the artist’s Italian landscapes.