The first museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the extraordinary range of nudes by Edgar Degas -tracing their evolution from the artist's early years, through the private and public images of brothels and bathers in the 1870s and 1880s, to the post-Impressionist nudes of the end of his career- is presented by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, after its exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).

In the exhibition The Liberation of Sight. The Art of Drawing from Kobell to Corinth from the Städel Museum, the Städel Department of Prints and Drawings (Frankfurt, Germany) is now presenting German drawings of the nineteenth century.

Fifty years ago the American psychiatrist and collector Dallas Pratt (1914- 1994) founded the American Museum in Britain with English-born antiques dealer John Judkyn (1913-1963). Their intention was to showcase the American decorative arts in Britain, and thereby enable visitors to have a better understanding of the history of the United States and its people.

As part of the celebrations of 400 years of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) will be showing a selection of works from the Collection of Istanbul Museum of Modern Art.

This spring's big exhibition at Nationalmuseum (Stockholm, Sweden), Passions, is all about emotion in art. The exhibition features over 100 works from the Renaissance to the present day, some from Nationalmuseum’s own collections, and others obtained on loan.