Tate Britain (United Kingdom) presents an exhibition exploring how British art has been shaped by migration. Featuring artists from Van Dyck, Whistler and Mondrian to Steve McQueen and Francis Alÿs, Migrations traces not only the movement of artists, but the circulation of art and ideas.

Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Van Gogh up close is a traveling exhibition that features more than 70 works including 46 paintings by the Post-Impressionist artist. The show focuses on radical still lifes and landscapes that challenged tradition.

"In Claude Lorrain, nature declares itself eternal," Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted enthusiastically on the French Baroque artist’s landscape paintings in 1818. Now, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt (Germany) shows one hundred and thirty works created at different points in Claude Lorrain's (c. 1600 or 1604/05–1682) career, among them thirteen paintings and numerous drawings and prints

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain) runs the exhibition The Inverted Mirror, a selection of works from Fundación "La Caixa" and the MACBA museum. This survey of art from the late 1940s to the present includes painting, sculpture, photography, and video and is organized into six thematic sections.

The National Gallery of Art (Washington, USA) hosts, until May 6, 2012, the show Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition. The exhibition is co-organized with The Frick Collection, New York.