The New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA) has reopened a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. The enlarged, freshly conceived, and completely renovated galleries house the Metropolitan's renowned collection of Islamic art

The alliance between the avant-garde and the antique constitutes an extraordinary episode in the history of European modernism. Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia in the Presence of the Antique, on view at the Getty Villa (Los Angeles, USA) through January 16, 2012, focuses on how four eminent artists reinvented and transformed antiquity between 1906 and 1936.

The J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA) holds the first comprehensive overview of photographs by one of the most important artists of the 20th century: Lyonel Feininger.

The Royal Academy of Arts (London, United Kingdom) presents the exhibition Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915–1935, which examines Russian avant-garde architecture made during a brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c.1922 to 1935.

The De Young Museum (San Francisco, USA) hosts Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power, a worldwide exclusive presentation of 50 paintings by Venetian painters Titian, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto, Mantegna, and more, primarily from the sixteenth century, all on loan from the Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.