In celebration of Judith Leyster's (1609–1660) 400th birthday, the Gallery will showcase her expressive Self-Portrait (c. 1630) as the focal point of a small exhibition that will include ten of Leyster's finest works from American and European collections.

One hundred years after the publication in Le Figaro on February 20, 1909, of the Futurist Manifesto, signed by the “jeune poète Italien” Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates this revolutionary avant-garde movement with the exhibition Masterpieces of Futurism at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, curated by Philip Rylands, director of the museum.

The first major exhibition of Truitt’s work since 1974, "Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection" is a survey of two- and three-dimensional works made during the artist’s 40-year career.

"Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum", the second in a series of special installations, celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper.

This is the first, full-scale retrospective of Kandinsky's career in the United States since 1985, when the Guggenheim culminated its trio of ground-breaking exhibitions of the artist’s life and work in Munich, Russia, and Paris.

William Wiley (b. 1937) has stood the test of time in the face of changing styles, successive movements, critical theories and passing fashion.

Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon

The 6-foot-high plaster working model of the celebrated seated Lincoln statue by American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), designed for the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, will be on view in honor of President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.

In autumn 2009, the Kröller-Müller Museum will present an exhibition of work by the Dutch artist Christiaan Bastiaans (Amsterdam, b. 1951).

Discover how Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775- 1851) revolutionised two different kinds of image- making: watercolour and print.