The Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Frankfurt am Main. Germany) presents a major exhibition devoted to art from the Middle Ages, entitled Niclaus Gerhaert. The Medieval Sculptor. The Netherlander Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden, who was likely born in Leyden around 1430and died in Wiener Neustadt in 1473, is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential artists of the Late Gothic period.

The Pinacothèque de Paris (France) hosts the exhibition The Dutch Golden Age. The Kremer collection, which refers to the extraordinary artistic movement developed during the 17th century, supported by a new category of collectors: the merchants and the bourgeois.

The Museum of Fine Arts of Budapest (Hungary) hosts and exhibition that wishes to pay tribute to the extensive patronage of Marcell Jánoshalmi Nemes (1866-1930), one of the most significant art collectors in early twentieth-century Hungary, as well as one of its most contradictory figures, whose extensive activities as both an art patron and collector became legendary during his own lifetime.

The National Portrait Gallery (London, United Kingdom) celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of the nineteenth-century writer, Charles Dickens, with a new display that is part of Dickens 2012, the international campaign to mark the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth.

Ancient worshipers had to travel to Mount Olympus in Greece or to temples in Cyprus to pay homage to Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, but today, devotees can admire the beguiling divinity closer to home at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), in Aphrodite and the Gods of Love.