London - Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987, the most comprehensive exhibition of Tiffany jewellery ever mounted, will introduce Great Britain to the rich history of the jewellery of Tiffany & Co..  It will take place at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, from Saturday 24 June to Sunday 26 November 2006.  Some 180 glittering pieces from the Tiffany Archive, together with a small selection of jewels loaned from private collections, will chronicle Tiffany’s first 150 years.  Many of these works have never before been on public display.

WASHINGTON, DC - Edward Hopper marks the first time in more than 25 years that a comprehensive exhibition of this great artist's work has been seen in American museums outside New York and is the most complete survey of his career ever presented in Washington. The exhibition of 96 paintings and works on paper focuses on the period of the artist's great achievements—from about 1925 to mid century—when he produced such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), and Nighthawks (1942).

BIELEFELD, GERMANY - Kunsthalle Bielefeld presents 1937. Perfection and Destruction, on view through 13 January 2008. Ten themes, almost two hundred artists, more than four hundred works on loan: the Kunsthalle Bielefeld is documenting 1937 as a year of “Perfection and Destruction.” It is about the many reactions to a traveling exhibition entitled Entartete Kunst (Degenerate art), which opened in Munich that year; it is also about the National Socialists’ campaign against modernism, and the international shock caused by the bombing of Guernica.

Los Angeles, CA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), is showcasing its premier collection of paintings by one of America’s iconic Abstract Expressionist painters in MOCA’S Mark Rothkos.  Curated by MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, MOCA’s Mark Rothkos brings together 8 out of 10 major Rothko paintings from MOCA’s collection in an intimate installation on view November 5, 2006–January 21, 2007 at MOCA Pacific Design Center.  This grouping of magnificent paintings in the artist’s mature style—described as seeming to “glow mysteriously from within”—were acquired through gifts by Rita Schreiber in memory of her husband Taft Schreiber, and the Rothko Foundation, as well as the purchase of the famous Panza Collection in 1984 that formed the foundation of the museum’s assemblage of postwar art unparalleled on the West Coast.

Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkovich in Dvinsk, Russia (present-day Latvia), in 1903 and emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of 10.

London - A stunning exhibition of magnificent and rare Elizabethan and Stuart silver and Russian gold and silver of the same period from the Kremlin’s Armoury Museum in Moscow will take place at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, from Saturday 21 October 2006 to Sunday 28 January 2007.  The Armoury Museum houses the most important surviving group of English 16^th and 17^th century silver in the world.  Britannia & Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars is part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Armoury Museum by the decree of Emperor Alexander I in 1806.

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