In this exhibition, at the Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Kiki Smith presents a unique, site-specific installation exploring ideas of creative inspiration and the cycle of life in relation to women artists.

Bologna's annual contemporary art fair will be open from 28 to 31 January 2010 in the city's Exhibition Center. Galleria Lorcan O'Neill Roma will be located in Pavillion 15, Booth C10.

The Hammer Museum presents the first museum retrospective of drawings by British artist Rachel Whiteread. While her sculpture is well known and widely published, Whiteread's work on paper has remained largely behind the scenes. The show will be travelling to Nasher Museum in Dallas and Tate Britain in London. This exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated, 224-page catalogue with essays by exhibition curator Allegra Pesenti and Ann Gallagher, Head of Collections (British Art) at the Tate.

Second appointment at MACRO, Museum in Rome, with works of young Roman artists in dialogue between eachother. Pietro Ruffo's installation inhabits an exhibition space with the work of Valentino Diego.