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

Apollo, August, 2005

The Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, is showing nine Matisse paintings (including Le Luxe II) with contemporary art, to reassert his position in the avant-garde. 'Matisse &' (16 August-4 December) includes work by Jesper Just and Malene Landgreen from Denmark, and Aino Kannisto from Finland. ( 45 3374 8494)

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The Zentrum Paul Klee has just opened in Berne, Switzerland. The building, designed by Renzo Piano, contains 4000 works by the artist. The single space formed by three huge vaults is subdivided only by gauze partitions, to encourage visitors to think of the work in its totality. ( 41 [0] 31 35901 01)

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Georg Jensen's silver has recently reached stratospheric prices at auction. Anyone who cannot afford it can instead see 300 pieces of 'Georg Jensen Jewellery' made by the firm between 1904 and 1975, such as this brooch of 1913, at the Bard Graduate Center, New York (until 16 October). ( 1 212 501 3000)

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The Prado has re-created the picture hang of the destroyed Buen Retiro palace built for Philip tv. 'The Palace of the Planet King' (until 27 November) consists of sixty-two paintings, such as Roman Soldiers in the Circus by Aniello Falcone. Velazquez and Ribera are also represented. ( 34 913 30 29 41)

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This Roman bust of a man from Syria and this Bodhisattva found in Pakistan form one of the pairs of works in 'East meets West' at the Dallas Museum of Art. The exhibition (7 August-11 December) emphasises the links between disparate cultures during antiquity and the renaissance. ( 1 214 922 1200

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The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, is exhibiting about 100 drawings by the artist, such as Landscape with Cottages (1890). 'Van Gogh draughtsman: The masterpieces' (until 18 September) is also showing his four extant sketchbooks. ( 31 [0] 20 570 5292)

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'A new kind of historical evidence' at the Fogg Art Museum (6 August-30 October) shows photographs from Harvard's Carpenter Collection, ranging from nudes by Edward Weston to rail-road tracks documented by the Boston Transit Company. Joseph Janney Steinmetz's Untitled (Sarasota, Florida), 1954. ( 1 617 495 9400)

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Print-making is the chosen medium for the New Orleans Triennial at the New Orleans Museum of Art (7 August-16 October). The curator is Marilyn Kushner, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Repent III by Lea Barton (screenprint), 2003. ( 1 504 488 2631)

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'The Limbourg Brothers' at the Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegan, the Netherlands, has gathered together the largest ever number of leaves by Paul, Herman and Johan Limbourg. The exhibition (30 August-20 November) includes seventeen leaves of Les Belles Heures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and loans from the Vatican and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. ( 31 [0] 24 360 8805)

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'The mystery of Jan van Eyck' at the Royal Palace, Dresden, unites two of the city's greatest pieces for the first time: the only drawing and the only extant triptych by the master. The exhibition (13 August-31 October) provides a context for Van Eyck through other north European drawings and paintings in the collection. ( 49 [0] 3 51 49 14 2000)

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