The Arca in Vercelli, in collaboration with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, organizes the exhibition The Giants of the Avant-Garde: Miró, Mondrian, Calder and the Guggenheim Collection, the fifth of a successful series conceived by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Presenting a selection of masterworks assembled from public and private collections across the world, the new Centre Pompidou's exhibition (Paris, France) examines a distinctive aspect of Matisse’s art: his repeated explorations of the same subject through different treatments – for him a way of exploring art itself.

Pablo Picasso invented collage as an artistic technique around the spring of 1912. But long before this, in Barcelona in March 1899, he made a drawing in which he glued a technically reproduced image: the portrait of an actress. We now know that this piece is a picture card from a matchbox, which were very popular in the late nineteenth century.

In the summer of 1964, San Francisco was ground zero for a historic culture clash as the site of both the 28th Republican National Convention (the Goldwater Convention) and the launch of the Beatles' first North American tour.

Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists on view at Palazzo Strozzi, (Florence, Italy), until 15 July 2012, sets out to illustrate the extremely fertile and multifaceted relationship that the painters of the New World established with Florence and other cities in Tuscany between the mid 19th century and the World War I.