Spirits of Internationalism opens at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and M HKA in Antwerp (Belgium).  This exhibition takes place simultaneously in two venues and shows art from six European collections: four museums and two artists' archives. It presents art made between 1956 and 1986, a period marked by fast economic and technological development, but also by international political tension.

The Royal Academy of Arts (London, United Kingdom) presents this weekend the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney's landscape work. Vivid paintings inspired by Yorkshire landscape, many large in scale and created specifically for the exhibition, will be shown alongside related drawings and films. Through a selection of works spanning fifty years, this new body of work will be placed in the context of Hockney's extended exploration of and fascination with landscape.

Drawn from works given and bequeathed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA) by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010) from a collection that was a half century in the making, the exhibition of The Coe Collection of American Indian Art is comprised of some 40 objects that span a period from several millennia BCE to the year 2001 and are made in materials that vary widely, from stone toceramic to animal hide. 

The Museum of Modern Art MoMA (New York, USA) presents Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence, the first retrospective in the United States of the artist's work until March 26, 2012.

A major new exhibition, which will use the extraordinary collection at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to explore the development of sculpture over the last 110 years, has opened in Edinburgh.