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This exhibition is the first of its kind. It doesn't just tell the history of an art dealer but also the history of art, the history of a family and plain History with a capital H, filled with the blood and tears of the Second World War. ‘21 rue La Boétie’ is the title of the exhibition and also the address of Paul Rosenberg’s gallery in Paris from 1910 to 1940.

Diego Giacometti (1902-1985), the brother of the illustrious sculptor Alberto Giacometti, has a seat in the pantheon of 20th century decorative arts. Hubert de Givenchy (born 1926), whose creations were made famous by the actor Audrey Hepburn among others, has a seat in the pantheon of 20th century couture. The pair are reunited at Christie’s in Paris on 6 March.

Arco in Madrid has not only become the Spain’s most important commercial and cultural event for contemporary art but is also a European platform for current Latin American output, including Brazil. The guest country for this 2017 edition is Argentina.

The greatest artists present us with endless opportunities to discover new sides to their work. A perfect example is at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, where 62 paintings by Claude Monet are currently on display.

Anyone who has visited Naoshima and Teshima, the art islands in the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, will probably never get over the experience. Teshima is home to an immense space that radiates simplicity and emotion. Inside is an almost imperceptible yet infinitely poetic work by Rei Naito, a highly reserved artist, whose work is shown infrequently.

In response to current events, Metropolitan Museum curators and researchers will give informal ten-minute talks on Friday mornings at 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. through the end of March, in the galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art and of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, about works of art of their choice.

Philippe Parreno (born 1963) is used to working on a large scale. The artist has now filled the entire Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern where his collection of installations is controlled by a very special piece of equipment: a bacteriological computer.

An unmissable show at the Centre Pompidou reveals how Cairo, a far cry from the face that the Egyptian capital presents to the world today, was animated by a group of wild, pertinent and politically engaged artists. It is the first museum exhibition to tackle the subject of Egyptian surrealism.

Switzerland is a unique blend of alpine culture, cows, rustic tradition, cheese, and world-class expertise in such diverse domains as watchmaking, banking and contemporary art. Every two years, in Gstaad, a show called Elevation 1049 perfectly incarnates these two apparently irreconcilable tendencies.