The vignette, "A Loving Couple", by Vincent van Gogh has been in private collections for many years. It's exhibited for the first time this fall at the Van Gogh Museum.

Science and art installation will be last new exhibit at California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard Street. Exhibit features original artwork by Oakland-based painter Tiffany Bozic.

They are Meditating: Bark Paintings from the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney Arnott's Collection will be exhibited from 14 February to 3 August 2008.

Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney exhibits paintings by Callum Innes 'From Memory', on view from 11 December 2007 to 5 March 2008.

The Illinois State Museum presents an exhibition of the most significant privately held collection of paintings by Chicago artists during the first half of the 20th Century. Chicago Painting 1895 to 1945: The Bridges Collection demonstrates that Chicago has supported generation after generation of inspired artists who painted land and cityscapes, portraits, and scenes of everyday life in the Midwest and beyond.

For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's famously missing eyebrows and lashes.

More than 100 of the finest paintings from the Japanese Edo period (1615–1868) will be featured in "Patterned Feathers, Piercing Eyes: Edo Masters from the Price Collection," on view Nov. 10 through April 13, 2008 at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

One of the most prominent Italian painters of the late 19th century, Antonio Mancini (1852-1930) was at the forefront of Verismo, the Italian response to realism. A brilliant colorist and technician, Mancini is known for his daring and innovative painting methods characterized by unusually thick impasto and the inclusion of glass, metal foil and other materials onto the surfaces of his paintings.

A painting originally handed over by Francis Bacon to cover the rent on his west London studio was the highlight of a record-breaking Christie's auction of post-war and contemporary art overnight.

The first ever exhibition of Flemish paintings from the Royal Collection is showing at The Queen's Gallery in the Palace of Holyrood house, Edinburgh. Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting runs until April 6 2008 and brings together 51 works from the 15th to 17th centuries, including masterpieces by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jan Brueghel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hans Memling.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…Lowry Burgess is an artist who has been exploring the earth, universe, cosmology, and humans' relationship to these elements since the 1960s. Four of his large-scale paintings, ranging from 15 to nearly 17 feet in height, will be on view in Carnegie Museum of Art's Forum Gallery in Forum 61: Lowry Burgess, November 10, 2007–March 23, 2008.

The Hayward Gallery at London's Southbank Centre is staging the first major museum survey to explore the use and translation of photographic imagery. The Painting of Modern Life runs until December 30 2007 and features some 100 paintings from the last five decades.