10 to catch: APOLLO'S selection for the month ahead

Apollo, June, 2005

This giant desk and chair designed by Giancarlo Neri are at Parliament Hill Fields, London, from 22 June to 27 July. Rollo gallery is installing them as part of Art Fortnight London (20 June-4 July), a celebration of London's art market. Pen not included. www.artfortnightlondon.com

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Those who discover artists they like at the Venice Biennale (see below) can travel to Art Basel (15-20 June) to buy something. The world's biggest contemporary fair now also includes modern masters: Man Ray's Sur Impression, Paris (1930, left) is with Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. www.artbasel.com

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'Genghis Khan and his heirs: The empire of the Mongols' at the Kunst und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, celebrates the visual and decorative arts of the empire, which stretched from Europe to the Pacific. The works on show include maps, Buddhist sculptures, jewellery and paintings on silk (16 June to 25 September). ( 49 [0] 228 9171 0)

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'Pioneering modern painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885' is the first major exhibition at MOMA, New York, since the recent expansion (26 June-12 September). The two painters often worked on the same subject simultaneously, and the reuniting of such 'pendants', for the first time since they were created, allows an analysis of mutual influence. ( 1 212 708 9431)

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150 paintings, drawings and prints are on show at the National Gallery, Ottawa, in 'Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence' (until 5 September). Bronzino and Raphael are some of the other artists included, but most notable is the newly-restored Sacrifice of Isaac by Andrea del Sarto (left). ( 1 613 9908257)

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As a woman, daughter of a Jew, road-accident victim, protector of Trotsky and wife to an unfaithful husband, Frida Kahlo has become all things to all critics. Tate Modern, London, is spreading the enthusiasm with eighty works in the exhibition 'Frida Kahlo' (9 June-October). Left: The Little Deer (1946). ( 44 [0) 7887 8888)

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Goodbye Guggenheim: the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon has just opened in Leon, Spain. The building (right), notable for a brightly-coloured facade, was designed by architects Mansilla and Tunon of Madrid. The best known artists in the the collection are Matthew Barney, Yinka Shonibare and Katlug Ataman. www.musac.org

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'Corot: Nature, Emotion, Souvenir' at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (7 June-11 September) explores the career of the artist whose sketches en plein air anticipated Impressionism. Eighty works also cover his visits to Italy, his portraiture and his nudes (right).

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Eighty countries are sending an artist to the fifty-first Venice Biennale (12 June-6 November). Ricky Swallow has made mementi mori inspired by Dutch still lifes (left) for the Australian pavilion. Gilbert and George are representing the UK, and Ed Ruscha the us. The Museo Correr is exhibiting works by Lucian Freud concurrently, www.labiennale.org

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The Westminster Retable (detail, left)--made for Westminster Abbey in the thirteenth century--has just been conserved by the Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge. It is now on show at the National Gallery, London (until 4 September). Paul Binski of Cambridge University has written an accompanying book. ( 44 [0] 20 7747 2885)