The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA) presents a retrospective of works by Fu Baoshi, one of the most renowned modern artists in China, beginning January 21, 2012. Drawn primarily from the preeminent holdings of China's Nanjing Museum, Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) showcases the artist's 40-year career with some 70 paintings and 20 seals that have never been shown outside Asia.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Canada) hosts the first posthumous retrospective in North America on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Lyonel Feininger: from Manhattan to the Bauhaus offers the first comprehensive panorama of the oeuvre of this American artist, who has been strangely forgotten since he spent most of his life in Germany.

Spirits of Internationalism opens at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and M HKA in Antwerp (Belgium).  This exhibition takes place simultaneously in two venues and shows art from six European collections: four museums and two artists' archives. It presents art made between 1956 and 1986, a period marked by fast economic and technological development, but also by international political tension.

The Royal Academy of Arts (London, United Kingdom) presents this weekend the first major exhibition in the UK to showcase David Hockney's landscape work. Vivid paintings inspired by Yorkshire landscape, many large in scale and created specifically for the exhibition, will be shown alongside related drawings and films. Through a selection of works spanning fifty years, this new body of work will be placed in the context of Hockney's extended exploration of and fascination with landscape.

Drawn from works given and bequeathed to The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA) by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010) from a collection that was a half century in the making, the exhibition of The Coe Collection of American Indian Art is comprised of some 40 objects that span a period from several millennia BCE to the year 2001 and are made in materials that vary widely, from stone toceramic to animal hide.