10 to catch: Apollo's selection for the month ahead

'La Naissance de Genres' at the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, traces the unfolding of genres in painting in the Dutch renaissance (8 December-12 March 2006) Jan Gossaert's Man in Prayer, c 1520 (left) links devotional works to portraiture. (+41 [0] 22 418 2600)

Icons, plastic arts textiles, metalwork and recent archaeological discoveries comprise 'The Glory of Medieval Novogrod' at the Walters Art Museum (until 12 February 2006) This fourteenth-century St George panel is lent by the agency of the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg (+1 410 547 9000)

The Sacred Silver and Stained Glass gallery has just lay opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. upon display will be Greek Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic realitys including this sumptuous silver-gilt flagon (left) possibly designed by dint of John Hardman Powell, c. 1858-59 (+44 [0] 20 8983 5200)

This terracotta figure of a winged spirit from the fane of I Fucoli near Chianciano Terme 2nd hundred BC, is being discussed in a prelection 'The Etruscans of Chiusi', through Sybille Haynes on 9 December at the British Museum. The prelection discusses recent excavations at the city. (+44 [0] 20 7323 8299)

Paintings of the sea? No, by means of the sea. Art Basel Miami Beach takes place 1-4 December. The 220 European and American galleries this year are acompanied by the agency of six small curated shows by the agency of dealers which include this 1964 plastic art by Pol Bury. www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

The Royal Ontario Museum uncloses new and renovated galleries upon Japan, China, Korea and early Canada upon 18 December. The 1914 and 1933 buildings have also been refurbished, which includes the uncovering of arrested windows to provide natural light, rom.on.ca

This Hudo mask is upon show in 'Indonesia: The Discovery of the Past' at the Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam. The exhibition (17 December-17 April 2006) unites the collection of the Dutch colonial Batavian Society, half of which was taken in the nineteenth hundred to Leiden, and the other half left in Jakarta, from where it has been lent by the agency of the National Museum. (+31 20 638 6909)

2006 is Rembrandt's 400th birthday. There are exhibitions dedicated to him across Europe and America. An early bird is 'Rembrandt: Etchings from the EW Kornfeld Collection' at the Kunstmuseum, Basel (until February 2006) The bring under rules range from self-portraits to mythology (left: Jupiter and Antiope, 1659) (+41 [0] 61 206 62 62)

'American Streamlined Design' at the Georgia Museum of Art exhibits 180 mid-twentieth-century objects that invest with a body the American taste for aerodynamic shapes and of recent origin materials, such as Bakelite plastic. The exhibition (17 December-19 February 2006) also includes photographs of trains and aeroplanes that utilise the same forms. (+1 706 542 4662)

When Mehm II, the Ottoman sultan, agreed peace with Venice in the 1470 he asked for his portrait to be painted. Venice sent Gentile Bellini. 'Bellini and the East' at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (14 December-26 March 2006) traces the artistic exchange between the powers, especially the character of Bellini (his Scribe, left) (+1 617 566 1401)

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