"Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity" will be the largest American exhibition ever devoted to this major Swiss artist. Hodler was admired by such Austrian artists as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, whose work is essential to the Neue Galerie collection. The organizing curator for the Neue Galerie is Jill Lloyd, a distinguished scholar who has assembled several important shows for the museum, including "Van Gogh and Expressionism". The exhibition is co-organized by the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, where it will be on view from January 27 to May 26, 2013. The organizing curator for the Beyeler is Ulf Küster.

La exposición, que consta de 52 piezas originales de Antoni Samarra (33 óleos, 16 dibujos y 3 esculturas), conmemora la primera muestra de pintura celebrada en Canet de Mar, una exposición de obras de este artista que se inauguró el 21 de abril de 1912 (hace ahora 100 años) y que estuvo organizada por el Foment Catalanista, entonces propietario del edificio construido por Lluís Domènech i Montaner que actualmente es la Biblioteca P. Gual i Pujadas.

La exposición de 1912 fue solo de pinturas, aunque por aquel entonces Samarra trabajaba como escultor en el castillo de Santa Florentina de Canet.

Durante su estancia en Canet, el artista de Ponts estableció fuertes vínculos tanto con el pueblo como con Lluís Domènech i Montaner y participó activamente en todas las manifestaciones culturales del momento.

A pesar de estar muy bien considerado por la crítica como pintor y de apuntar un gran futuro como artista, Antoni Samarra se suicidó dos años más tarde en el castillo de Burriac del Maresme.

La muestra "Antoni Samarra, 100 años después" está organizada por el Ayuntamiento de Canet de Mar, el Ayuntamiento de Ponts, el Museo de Arte Jaume Morera (Ayuntamiento de Lérida), la Casa Museo Lluís Domènech i Montaner, con la colaboración de Jordi Vidal, conservador de arte y comisario de la exposición, y Vicente de la Fuente, historiador del arte.

Over 230 rare works by Mucha will be on view for the inaugural exhibition of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 14 July to 31 December 2012.

<em>Alphonse Mucha: Inspirations of Art Nouveau<em> will feature paintings, jewellery, sculptures and lithographs. Not since 1999 has an exhibit of this size and calibre appeared in the United States and it will be the first of its type to appear in the Midwest region.

"We have been working with the Mucha Foundation for more than a year to bring this stunning exhibit to the U.S. and we are particularly thrilled that it will be the inaugural exhibition for the opening of this national museum," said President/CEO Gail Naughton. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view the lush beauty of Mucha´s flowing, elegant artwork, which is recognized by people all over the world."

The exhibition is divided into six sections and explores Mucha not just as the father of Art Nouveau, but also Mucha´s Moravian roots, his family, his photography and his devotion to the Slav people.

Since the introduction of photography in 1839, portraiture has been one of the most widely practiced forms of the medium. Starting in the early 20th century, however, some photographers began to question whether a single image could adequately capture the complexity of an individual. Arranged both chronologically and thematically, the exhibition features 153 works by 20 artists who photographed the same subjects--primarily friends, family, and themselves-over the course of days, months, or years to create some of the most provocative and revealing portraits of the past 100 years.

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Trellis Fund

This retrospective is the first fully dedicated to the drawings of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), one of the seminal figures in modern art. It explores the stylistic evolution of his drawings as well as their centrality to his artistic enterprise. Indeed, Klimt's paintings cannot be understood without careful consideration of his drawings, which also play a semi-autonomous role in his artistic output. Based upon assiduous study of the human figure, they are characterized by an unsurpassed mastery of line during all phases of his artistic development. This major loan exhibition was organized by the Albertina Museum, Vienna, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, to mark the 150th anniversary of Klimt's birth.