The San Diego Museum of Art (California, USA) hosts the exhibition Mexican Modern Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection from November 5, 2011 through February 19, 2012. Visitors to the Museum will experience a selection of 80 paintings dated between 1907 and 1956.

"When I paint a picture, I am not writing a thought". Eugène Delacroix questioned the need for a theme in painting. According to the great French artist, what created emotion on a canvas were its artistic values  -material, light, colour-  rather than the scenes depicted in it.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA) presents Maurizio Cattelan: All, the first retrospective of the internationally acclaimed artist's work, from November 4, 2011, to January 22, 2012.

The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) presents, until February 5, 2012, the show Pool in a Harem and Other Works by Jean-Leon Gerome.

For the first time in Poland, the National Museum in Krakow presents an exhibition of works by William Turner, greatest of the English Romantic painters and precursor of Impressionism and Symbolism, an artist who, in his landscapes of water and clouds, came close to abstract painting.