The Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) organizes Edvard Munch. The Modern Eye, an exhibition with almost 140 of his works, including some 60 paintings, 30 works on paper and 50 vintage photographs. The show also reunites a number of films and one of the artist's very rare sculptures, Edvard Munch, l'oeil modern.

The Tate Britain in London (United Kingdom) organizes an exhibition dedicate to visionary, eccentric, populist and epic artist John Martin, a controversial but key figure in nineteenth century art. Organised in partnership with the Laing gallery, Newcastle, this is the first major exhibition dedicated to Martin's work in over 30 years.

Masterpieces by Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Piero del Pollaiolo,the Della Robbia family,and Lorenzo di Credi -the cream of Renaissance artists- show how the modern banking system developed in parallel alongside the most important artistic flowering in the history of the Western world.

The Pinacothèque de Paris (France) presents, a new reading of the work of sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The exhibition, entitled Giacometti and The Etruscans, shows Giacometti's interest for the primitive figure, which can be found very early in the artist's work.

The four Pastrana Tapestries are on view together for the first time in the United States at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, through January 8, 2012. Because of their outstanding quality and historical significance, the Spanish government listed them as cultural patrimony to be safeguarded during the Spanish Civil War.