SYDNEY.- This year more than 32,000 people voted in the People’s Choice for the Archibald Prize and their favourite portrait by far was Vincent Fantauzzo for his portrait of Heath Ledger called " Heath ". To date 130,000 people have visited the 2008 Archibald Prize, which is a record attendance for the gallery since Archibald began in 1921. Vincent Fantauzzo painted his portrait of Australian actor Heath Ledger in December just weeks before Ledger died in New York in January.

Vienna, Austria - Modern art of the Faroese islands is widely unknown outside of Scandinavia, but certainly mostly because of the remote location of its origin and definitely not because it is lacking quality. This exhibition wants to give the Austrian public a chance to discover Europe’s smallest country through its art and to get to know artists who absolutely deserve a broader audience.  On exhibition16 May until 7 September 2008 at the Leopold Museum.

Voorhout, Netherlands - Panorama Tulipland in Voorhout is a relatively new tourist attraction in the heart of the Dutch bulb fields. One of the attractions is the Panorama of the bulb fields (Bollenstreek), an impressive work of art (63 meter long and 4 meters high) that forms part of a circle to give the visitors the idea that they are standing in the flowering bulb fields. The painter started his work in 1997 and has finally finished in 2008. It is the worlds largest and most colourful flower-panorama. Since he made the first pencil sketch 1997 landscape painter Leo van den Ende has spent 6000 hours working on the panorama.

Vienna, Austria -  Starting on May 9 and running through August 10, the Albertina will present a comprehensive Paul Klee retrospective. The starting point of the exhibition will be Carl Djerassi’s important gift to the Albertina of works by Paul Klee. Additional exhibits from the holdings of the Albertina, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other international collections and museums will show this important collection in the context of the exceptional creativity of Paul Klee.

Hong Kong - The Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau and The University Museum and Art Gallery are delighted to present "Pablo Picasso: The Vollard Suite", an exhibition of a hundred intaglio prints by the great artist, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973).  On exhibition 17 May to 20 July 2008.

NEW YORK CITY - Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida painted Las Tres Velas (Three Sails) on the beach of El Cabañal during the summer of 1903. One of the most luminously eloquent of his many images of the fisherwomen of his native Valencia, Las Tres Velas marks Sorolla's artistic passage to a new level of creativity. Sorolla was already one of the world's most honored painters when he launched his 1903 campaign of open-air painting among the fishing communities on Spain's Mediterranean coast, but in the course of that summer Sorolla pushed his art to a new monumentality and laid claim to a broad new palette of color effects. Lost from public view for a century, Las Tres Velas consolidates a decade of Sorolla's painting experience into an unforgettable image of the womenfolk of his beloved homeland.

Miami, FL - Special installations by Miami artists, including Leyden Rodriquez-Casanova, Matt Schreiber and Tom Scicluna along with selections from local collectors and Miami Art Museum’s growing permanent collection, will make up Disappearances, Shadows, and Illusions  in MAM’s Upper Level Gallery, on view June 6-September 21, 2008 at the Miami Art Museum.