The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666). The exhibition is organized by Walter Liedtke, curator of the European paintings department, who describes to us the organizing process and selection of works..

The only German museum abroad, Casa di Goethe in Rome, (Italy), dedicates the exhibition Piranesi, Rembrandt of the ruins to the outstanding engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).

The State Russian Museum of Saint-Petersburg hosts an exhibition that commemorates the 150th anniversary of Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), a leading Russian Impressionist painter.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles (USA) presents Cy Twombly Tribute: A Scattering of Blossoms & Other Things, a memorial exhibition of the late painter Cy Twombly (b. 1928, USA; d. 2011,Italy).

CaixaForum Barcelona hosts the exhibition Portraits of the Belle Époque, inaugurated last July 20 at the headquarters of the Catalan foundation in Montjuic and that can be visited until October 9. Thomàs Llorens, art historian and curator of the exhibition, explains us the main points of the show.