De Kooning: A Retrospective is the first major MoMA's exhibition (New York, USA) devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning. The exhibition, which brings together more than 200 workds, presents opportunity to study the artist’s development over nearly seven decades.

The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition focusing on Edgar Degas's preoccupation with movement as an artist of the dance. Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement traces the development of the artist's ballet imagery throughout his career.

The Hermitage Amsterdam (the Netherlands) presents, until 16 March 2012, a stunning selection from the Flemish art collection of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. With 75 paintings and about 20 drawings, this  survey includes numerous masterpieces by the three giants of the Antwerp School - Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens- accompanied by the work of well-known contemporaries.

At the end of 2007 the Belgian photographer Jérôme Latteur began a series devoted to the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (Belgium). The building was designed in the 1920s by Victor Horta and has lost none of its beauty since then. Latteur drew inspiration from the Centre for a series of photographic diptychs. Dreamlike interiors in black and white alternate with monochrome pictures that zoom in on material textures.

The Palace of Fine Arts Museum in Mexico presents an exhibition dedicated to the Mexican painter Rafael Coronel. With the name Retrofutura-Rafael Coronel, the show reunites 109 works incluiding paintings, sculptures and drawings that resume the artist's work –from the beginning of his career in the early fifties to the 18 pieces specially produced for this exhibition-.