CaixaForum Barcelona (Spain) is the only stop in Spain on an international tour organised by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to bring these great masterpieces to audiences around the world, an initiative that coincides with the extension of the US gallery.

The Museo del Prado, which turns 192 years on November 19, celebrates its anniversary with a varied program of activities. The celebration begins on Wednesday with the presentation of two monographs on the architecture of the museum, which was designed by architects Pedro Moleón and Rafael Moneo.

Over 30 chessmen from the collection of the British Museum are shown at The Cloisters, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA) devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The Metropolitan's presentation of The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis represents the first time such a large ensemble of the chessmen has traveled outside the United Kingdom

The Costa Rican Art Museum (MAC) pays homage to Rabindranath Tagore's life and artistic work with the exhibition Tagore: India Costa Rica, a show that commemorates the 150th of the birth of the Bengali artist.

With the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA (New York, USA) reunites five "portable murals"-freestanding frescoes with bold images commemorating events in Mexican history -that were made for a monographic exhibition of the artist's work at the Museum in 1931.