The S.M.A.K Museum (Ghent, Belgium) is one jewel of the international art scene that has one of the most important collections of Western Europe Art, with works by Joseph Beuys, David Hammons, Juan Muñoz, Panamarenko, Marcel Broodthaers and Luc Tuymans  among others.

Flemming Friborg is the organizing curator of Gauguin & Polynesia, an elusive paradise, a show with more than 50 of Gauguin's famous motifs from Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands -many of them being exhibited in Denmark for the first time. Friborg takes us through some of the highlights of the exhibition, which can be seen at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, (Copenhagen, Denmark).

The Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain) exhibits the first documented painting made by Goya. Hannibal the winner, which belongs to the Selgas-Fagalde Foundation, will remain on deposit at Museo del Prado for a period of 6 years, thanks to an agreement signed between both institutions. With this deposit, the Museum completes one of the chronological gaps of its own collection of the artist. 

From September 2011, Mondrian & De Stijl will have a permanent home base in the Netherlands, at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Besides Rembrandt and Van Gogh, the work of De Stijl is the only art form to be included in the Canon of Dutch History.

The exhibition Munch's Laboratory. The Path to the Aula is the Munch Museum's (Norway) contribution to the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the University of Oslo. We interview Petra Pettersen, curator of the exhibition, who explains the artistic collaboration between Edvard Munch and the University.