The National Portrait Gallery (London, United Kingdom) opens the first exhibition to explore art and theatre in eighteenth-century England through portraits of women. With 53 portraits the exhibition shows the remarkable popularity of actress-portraits and provides a vivid spectacle of eighteenth-century femininity, fashion and theatricality.

CaixaForum Madrid, en colaboración con el Museo del Louvre, acoge la mayor retrospectiva internacional en medio siglo sobre el pintor romántico Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). Posteriormente a su exhibición en la sede madrileña, la muestra viajará a Barcelona, donde se podrá visitar a partir del próximo mes de febrero.

The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (Brazil) presents the exhibition Panorama of Brazilian Art 2011, which has Itineraries, itinerancies as theme and gathers about forty artists from different parts of the country, as well as a few foreigners, with greater or smaller insertion in our national scene.

The Museo Picasso Málaga (Spain) presents Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective, an exhibition that precisely reflects the different stages in the career of one of the outstanding artists of the last century. This is the first Giacometti retrospective to be held in Spain in more than 20 years, and it will bring together 198 artworks in the Palacio de Buenavista.

On 18 October the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid will be inaugurating the exhibition Architectural Paintings. From Renaissance to 18th Century. It comprises a group of more than 140 paintings from the Renaissance to the 18th century that depict buildings and cities, either as the principal motif or as the background for the depiction of other subjects.