The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in USA is displaying the first major public sculpture by Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei, titled Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum hosts Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection, an exhibition which features twenty-six paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from 1960 to 1980 from Chicago artists.

Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of spectacular Buddhist sculptures, architectural reliefs and works of gold and bronze from the Gandhara region of Pakistan, most never exhibited before in the United States.

The only German museum abroad, Casa di Goethe in Rome, (Italy), dedicates the exhibition Piranesi, Rembrandt of the ruins to the outstanding engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).

The State Russian Museum of Saint-Petersburg hosts an exhibition that commemorates the 150th anniversary of Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), a leading Russian Impressionist painter.