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On the pages of medieval manuscripts, vines and luxuriant leaves twist together to create letter forms. Within the letters, fantastic figures of humans, animals, and mythological beasts clamber through the tangled foliage and occasionally transform into letters themselves. Other letters contain simple author portraits or serve as a frame for scenes of important events in a story. This exhibition examines these different letter types in medieval manuscripts and explores what they reveal about changes in manuscript illumination over the course of many centuries
Image: Unknown Italian, Montecassino, 1153  Tempera colors, gold leaf, and gold paint on parchment 7 9/16 x 5 3/16 in. MS. LUDWIG IX 1, FOL. 289

The Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, California 90049
Hours: Tuesday - Friday and Sunday
10 am - 5:30 pm / Saturday 10 am- 9 pm
Closed Monday and on January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving and December 25.
Admission: FREE

http://www.getty.edu/museum/

Over 250 master works by 93 artists will be united when the extraordinary exhibition Modern Britain 1900 – 1960, drawing together diverse works from the holdings of major public collections across Australia and New Zealand. This kaleidoscopic exhibition traces the development of British art and society across six decades of tremendous innovation and change.
Image: Louis DUFFY English 1908-98 Christ evicting the money lenders c.1940 oil on canvas 122.4 x 152.9 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased with the assistance of Bruce Parncutt, 2006 © Louis Duffy Estate

National Gallery of Victoria
180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne Australia 
Opening Hours: 10am–5pm daily
Closed Tuesdays except public holidays

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au

The exhibition is an homage to the gallery curator Lucio Amelio, bringing together the 2 great artists from the 20th century.

Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta
Foro Bonaparte 50, Milan, Italy

http://www.mazzotta.it/fondazione/index.htm

With The Victim MUMOK presents a selection from the graphic and cinematographic works by the artist Keren Cytter who was born in 1977 in Tel-Aviv and last year was awarded the Bâloise Kunst-Preis. In her books and films the artist employs experimental narrative techniques in order to analyse their relationship to social realities.
Image: Dreamtalk 1, video still, 2006 Video Installation © Keren Cytter

MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Wien,  Austria
Opening hours: Tue-Sun: 10.00 a.m.-6.00 p.m.
Thu: 10.00 a.m.-9.00 p.m.
Admission: general  € 9 / concessions: € 7,20

http://www.mumok.at

This exhibition presents an ever changing India as seen through the eyes of major stalwarts in the development of modern Indian art. Featuring over 40 stunning works by A Ramachandran, KG Subramanyan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, MF Husain, SH Raza and Arpana Caur, visual perspectives of everyday social realities are juxtaposed against the rich tapestry of Indian mythology tradition and fantasy.

SAM - Singapore Art Museum
71 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189555 Singapore
Museum Hours: Mon-Sun: 10am - 7pm /Fri: 10am - 9pm
Amissions: Adult: $8 / Student: $4 /  
Senior (60 years and above): $4
Free admission from 12noon – 2pm on weekdays and 6pm – 9pm on Fridays

http://www.singart.com