As wealthy Russians make their name on the global art circuit, buying up historic treasures and launching cutting edge contemporary galleries, one famous St Petersburg fine art collection makes a journey back through the centuries to its original home in exquisite English parkland.

Abu Dhabi is giving a warm welcome to world heritage: Birth Of A Museum is the first large-scale exhibition in the Emirati capital to give a sneak peek at what art lovers may expect from the yet-to-be-built Louvre Abu Dhabi museum.

With some of the best contemporary artists contributing to Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s charity event in addition to a sale of a series of spectacular jewels, mid-May offers two particular intriguing sales at auction house Christie’s.

Hôtel Meurice, or rather Le Meurice, has long been known as the Hotel of Kings, a title it obviously owes to the numerous crowned heads that rested on its 5-star pillows over the centuries, and which was more recently reinforced when it was awarded the prestigious French Palace Hotel status in 2011.

From the turn of the 20th century, the period when French artist August Rodin was influencing the world of sculpting so fundamentally, a number of movements also started to have an impact on the art, from Cubism to Surrealism and outsized land art.

Stretching back to the early 20th century, Sotheby's In the Round selling exhibition, from April 4th in New York, incorporates a host of renowned sculptors, including Italian artist Rembrandt Bugatti.