The Grand Palais (Paris, France), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York organize Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso. The Stein Family. The exhibition looks at the history of an out-of-the-ordinary family: the Steins. They were the first people to buy Matisses and Picassos and they also received the entire avant-garde into their homes and thus built up one of the most astonishing collections of modern art.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Moderna Museet of Stockholm (Sweden) present De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde. The focus is not on an artwork and an artist, but on half a century of acute visual and intellectual interpretation by art critic Ulf Linde.

André Kertész (1894-1985) is today famous for his extraordinary contribution to the language of photography in the 20th century. The Hungarian National Museum organizes a retrospective, which travels after Winterthur and Berlin to Budapest, marshals a large number of prints and original documents that highlight the exceptional creative acuity of this photographer.

The Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France) is organising an exhibition of the sculptures of Georg Baselitz (b. 1938). This retrospective interpretation of one facet of the German artist -initially a painter and engraver- will include almost his entire sculptural output, covering a period of more than thirty years. Few of these works have been shown in France.

The Fondation Beyeler (Basilea, Switzerland) presents on Sunday an exhibition devoted to the art of Surrealism, the first to be held on this theme in Switzerland for many years.