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What does the art world have in store for 2013? After 黑料不打烊 rang in the New Year we went to work rounding up a choice selection of art events from around the world that are sure to delight. On our list are traveling shows, new art fairs and genre specific exhibitions as well as some "firsts" for artists. From Manet鈥檚 portraits to Klee's angels exhibited for the first time as a group - find out where and when these and other highlight events will be open for your viewing pleasure.

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Traveling shows:
Manet: Portraying Life
at the Royal Academy of Arts
26 January 鈥� 14 April 2013

This first ever retrospective of Manet鈥檚 portraiture has already made its only North American stop at the Toledo Museum of Art last year, and with rave reviews it moves to London in the end of January. 鈥淭he exhibition consists of more than 50 works; among them are portraits of Manet鈥檚 most frequent sitter, his wife Suzanne Leenhoff, luminaries of the period Antonin Proust, 脡mile Zola and St茅phane Mallarm茅, and scenes from everyday life revealing Manet鈥檚 forward-thinking, modern approach to portraiture.鈥� While these portraits comprise of the majority of the artist鈥檚 life work, no other exhibition has delved into this aspect of the artist and related paintings.

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at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof铆a
April 24 - September 2, 2013

If you cannot catch 顿补濒铆 听at the Centre Pompidou (or cannot fathom the idea of facing its crowds) before it closes in March you are in luck, the exhibit moves to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof铆a in April. In this exploration of his full career, 顿补濒铆鈥檚 later works, largely marginalized by the art establishment, are included. With artworks on loan from the MoMA, The 顿补濒铆 Museum, and the 顿补濒铆 Foundation, major pieces from his oeuvre will be in display including 鈥渢he Persistence of Memory鈥�. As described in the exhibition website: 鈥淭he surrealist period comprises the central part of the show, which places special emphasis on the paranoiac-critical method developed by the artist as a mechanism with which to transform and subvert reality.鈥澨�

New Art Fairs:
Art Basel Hong Kong
at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
May 23 - 26, 2013

Eager to expand on the wild successes of Basel & Miami Beach, Art Basel is launching its Hong Kong version of the fair in May 2013. 听Just like their European & North American counterparts, Art Basel Hong Kong will include multiple exhibition sectors, gallery talks, and of course, the inclusion of hundreds of galleries from around the world while continuing to highlight the local. According to their website, "50 percent of participating galleries are from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region鈥�, and artists on display will total "2,000 from Asia and around the globe". Art collectors and enthusiasts who visit will not only get a taste for the best art being produced in Asia at this fair but will also be able to view several coinciding exhibitions and events at galleries around this thriving, culturally rich city.

The Australian public has never before had the opportunity to see a major retrospective exhibition devoted to the art of Henri Toulose-Latrec but this year they have a chance with Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin at the National Gallery of Australia. 鈥溾�楾oulouse-Lautrec鈥� will examine the artist鈥檚 abilities as an acute observer of Parisian life, his skill as a draughtsman, his experimentation in composition and the brilliance of his technical execution in all media. The exhibition will shed new light on Toulouse-Lautrec through an examination of his involvement in Parisian culture - the high life and the low life鈥� according to the exhibition website. On display will be paintings, drawings, posters and prints spanning from the early years of his career to his unique depictions of Parisian characters and the places they frequented.

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听at Kunstmuseum Basel
March 17th - July 21, 2013鈥�

What possibly could be a first for Picasso in 2013? This retrospective in Basel is comprised of Picassos exclusively held in collections in Basel and brings together exquisite holdings of his works from Kunstmuseum Basel and the Fondation Beyeler for the first time ever. Explained on the exhibition website, 鈥渋t is not accidental that Basel possesses such eminent Picasso holdings. Collectors like Raoul La Roche, Rudolf Staechelin, Karl Im Obersteg, and Maja Sacher-Stehlin built substantial portfolios even before the Second World War. In 1967, enthusiastic support from the people of Basel made the acquisition of important paintings possible; Picasso personally expressed his appreciation by donating prominent works to the City.鈥� Bringing together these holdings from numerous lenders allows us to build a comprehensive retrospective that illustrates all major periods in Picasso鈥檚 oeuvre at the highest level of quality, and to juxtapose the artist鈥檚 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints so as to reveal the interplay between the different media.

Special topics shows:
Paul Klee's Angels
at Museum Folkwang Essen
February 2- April 24, 2013

According to the museum "this is the first exhibition to focus on this unusual group within Paul Klee鈥檚 highly diverse oeuvre, and with around 80 drawings, watercolors, gouaches and paintings it presents the majority of his surviving works on this subject." Created in the later years of his career, and wildly popular amongst enthusiasts of his work, Klee's angels come from the declining years of Klee's life as well as a dark point in history, the rise of the Nazi regime leading to WWI. 鈥淭hey show fear and threat, but also intellectual detachment, wit and humor. Klee鈥檚 angels are still largely rooted in human existence, and this is the deeper reason for their popularity. They have minor weaknesses and flaws, are forgetful or ugly, full or worries or playful, meaning that everyone can recognize him- or herself in them.鈥� This exhibition moves to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in the end of April 2013.

Young lions in a cage: Art groups of German-speaking artists in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 1930s
at the Regional Gallery, Liberec
September, 13 2013 - December 31, 2013

This unique exhibition of works by members of prominent art-groups of German-speaking artists from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia between 1918 and 1945 听is based on years of research in Czechoslovakia and abroad into this well known, but insufficiently covered topic. 鈥淔or the first time since the听now-鈥媗egendary 鈥楳ezery v historii鈥� (Gaps in history) exhibition, the German art-scene of the 1920s and 1930s will be comprehensively presented.鈥� The show of will consist of around 200 works of Realism and Expressionism from this interwar period from a modern perspective including paintings, sculptures, prints, posters and selected examples of arts & crafts. After it leaves the Regional Gallery, Liberec, the exhibition will travel in 2014 (venues to be announced) and be adapted for each space and location.

Written by Tanya Puccini, researched by Aliza Hughes