The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., holds an exquisite collection of small-scale Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by such major figures as Manet, Cézanne, Renoir, Bonnard and Vuillard. A selection of these intimate works is now touring internationally: having opened at the Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae in Rome, the show is now on view at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and will travel in 2014 and 2015 to the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo and the Seattle Art Museum. (Worldwide 35739)

Last year, the Phoenix Art Museum showcased a new series of eight paintings by African American artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977), all portraits based on works by 15th-century Flemish master Hans Memling. In these portraits of contemporary urban youths, Wiley leaves behind the baroque, vividly hued style for which he is best known in favor of a more subdued and intimate approach. The paintings will also be on view at the Taft Museum of Art. (Worldwide 79136)

In the period immediately after World War II, such artists as Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi and Picasso developed a keen interest in working in clay, producing fired clay sculptures and utilitarian ceramic pieces that are often overlooked in their celebrated oeuvres. The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas recently organized an exhibition that explored their work in this elemental medium. (Worldwide 35678)

Last summer, the Pasadena Museum of California Art dedicated an exhibition to renowned American Abstract Expressionist painter Sam Francis (1923-1994), who spent much of his career in the Los Angeles area. A selection of more than one hundred works spanning the artist's career were featured in the show, which is now on view at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. (Worldwide 35669)

Until late July of this year, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be showing a monographic exhibition of the work of celebrated American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976), a show centered around a large-scale sculpture and fountain commissioned by LACMA in 1964 for the opening of its Hancock Campus. Nearly 50 abstract sculptures by the artist (including mobiles, stabiles and maquettes for larger works) have been brought together to highlight Calder's central role in the development of modern abstract sculpture. (Worldwide 35644)

Complementing an earlier publication that presented "a miniature version of a Biennale that might have been" (see Worldwide 34305), a catalogue documenting the 2011 Lyon Biennale was produced after the show closed. Focusing on the two parallel programs "Veduta" and "Resonance," the publication features the work of almost 80 international artists. (Worldwide 35594)

Close on the heels of the 2011 Lyon catalogue comes the catalogue of the 2013 Lyon Biennale, which showcased narrative works by contemporary artists who use art to experiment with storytelling. Participating artists include Matthew Barney, Erró, Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, Tom Sachs and Yang Fudong, among many others. (Worldwide 35577)

 "More light!" Exploring this theme, the 2013 Moscow Biennale brought together a diverse array of international artists in whose work light plays a prominent role, featuring installations, videos, sculptures, architectural projects and other works by such figures as Mona Hatoum, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Panamarenko and Yona Friedman. (Worldwide 35585)