For the first time, the Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain) presents thirty-six miniatures and  three small portraits from its unknown collection. During the presentation of this exhibition, the Museum has also released a publication that collects and analyzes a total of one hundred sixty-four miniatures and sixteen small portraits that come from its funds.

The Juan March Foundation holds the first exhibition in Spain to present the work of the Russian artist Aleksandr Deineka (1899-1969) and by extension the historical period from which it was born. With the aim of presenting both in a twofold context: the end of the avant-garde and the advent of socialist realism.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain) hosts Serra-Brancusi the exhibition on the work of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Richard Serra (1938), two of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century.

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 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

On occasion of the "Year of French Overseas Departments and Territories" the Musée Dapper of Paris organizes an exhibition that showcases African arts alongside Caribbean creativeness. The show Masquerades and Carnivals examines the key characteristics of mask-wearing and carnival practices, and discuss the symbolic/religious, societal, political and aesthetic issues they raise.