American painter, printmaker and sculptor James Rosenquist designed the eighty-six-foot-long oil on canvas F-111 to wrap around the four walls of the Leo Castelli Gallery, at 4 East Seventy-Seventh Street in Manhattan. He began the painting in 1964, in the middle of a turbulent decade marked by the escalating Vietnam War.

Apparent position is part of a research project, on display at Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain), about the scientific expeditions that took place during the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in order to view and document different astronomical phenomena. In this project Paloma Polo (Madrid, 1983) explores the close relationship between scientific development and colonial expansion by the European imperialist powers.

The Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain) presents Sacred Stories. Religious Paintings by Spanish Artists in Rome (1852-1864), a display that features five of the finest canvases of this type, all recently restored, by Madrazo, Rosales, Alejo Vera and Domingo Valdivieso. These artists achieved enormous fame in their own day, steering genre painting from a refined late Romanticism derived from Nazarene painting towards the new pictorial realism.

Antoine Watteau's oeuvre La Surprise is now exhibited at The FrickCollection, where the picture will be on loan for two years.

Following major refurbishment in the old museum building, the Städel Museum (Frankfurt, Germany) has reopened the Main River wing with the new presentation of the Städel's "Old Masters" (1300-1800) collection