10 to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead

'Piet Mondrian' at the Albertina, Vienna, traces the development of the artist from his Fauvish, colourful landscapes of the early twentieth century, to his quasi-Cubist simplifications (left) and finally to his fully abstracted geometries. Ninety works from the Hague, America and elsewhere are on show (11 March-19 June). ( 43 [0] 1 53483 0)

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The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, offers two excellent reasons to visit this month. The new gallery of British portrait miniatures, including this depiction of Jane Small by Hans Holbein, opens on 2 March. Be sure also to see the exhibition 'International Arts and Crafts' (17 March-24 July). ( 44 [0] 20 7942 2000)

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The Wallace Collection, London, is hosting a set of lectures inspired by its current exhibitions 'Boucher: Dutch and Flemish inspirations' (until 6 March) and 'Seductive visions: New responses to Boucher' (17 March-17 April). On 30 March, the philosopher Roger Scruton is giving a lecture entitled 'A vital contrast: Erotic art, pornography and the Enlightenment'. ( 44 [0] 20 7563 9551)

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New York's most prominent contemporary art fair, the Armory show, takes place 11-14 March. Of the 162 participating galleries, half are European, and thirty are newcomers, including one from India. Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo) is offering these models by Naoki Koide. ( 1 212 645 6440)

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Vedute by Canaletto and Bellotto and capricci by Guardt travel this month from the Hermitage, St Petersburg, to the museum's outpost in Amsterdam. 'Venezia! Art from the 18th century' (5 March-4 September) includes sixty-five paintings and works on paper, as well as Venetian glass. ( 31 20 5308755)

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Anyone who does not get their fill of Old Masters at the Maastricht art fair (see pp. 114-117) should visit the Salon du Dessin at the Palais de la Bourse, Paris. Thirty galleries, half of them from abroad, are exhibiting 1000 works on paper, 16-21 March. Galerie Haboldt is offering a black chalk Seated man by Rembrandt, while Trinity Fine Art has this Presentation of the Virgin in body colour on vellum by II Genovese. (www.salondudessin.com)

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Memling's greatest innovations lie in portraiture, for which he popularised complex landscape backgrounds. The Maarten van Nieuwenhove diptych (right, a panel) from Bruges is one of several loans that explore the subject in 'Memling: Portraits' (until 15 May) at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. ( 34 91 369 01 51)

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The trade in stolen antquities has never been so contentious, following the looting of the National Museum in Baghdad and the disapperance of the eighth century BC ivory of a lion attacking a Nubian (left). Dr Neil Brodie of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre at the University of Cambridge is lecturing on the subject at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, on 9 March. ( 44 [0] 20 7862 5800)

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Jean Michel Basquiat, the New Yorker painter whose graffiti-like style (right) was championed by Andy Warhol, died of a drug overdose at 27 in 1988. The Brooklyn Museum New York is displaying a retrospective of ninety works for 'Basquiat' (11 March-6 June), including the Danes suite, a set of thirty-two drawings which are being shown in the us in their entirety for the first time. ( 718 638 5000)

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The Prado's four paintings by Albrecht Durer, including this celebrated Self portrait (1498), are joined by ninety drawings and prints by the artist on loan from Vienna. 'Durer: Masterpieces from the Albertina' (8 March-29 May) is accompanied by a catalogue that analyses Spain's reception of the master. ( 34 91 330 28 00)

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