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This month, if you’re traveling to these destinations, don’t miss the following events.

CHICAGO Winslow Homer’s watercolors will be on view beginning February 16 at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show will feature some 130 works, including twenty-five rarely exhibited watercolor of the famous self-taught American artist.

DENVER: Sure to be a blockbuster show, Inspiring Impressionism, showcases some 100 paintings, including works by Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Camille Pissarro. It opens on February 23 and will travel to Seattle in June.

LONDON: The 18th-century American painter Benjamin West once said, “When I went to Rome, the Italian artists of that day thought of nothing, looked at nothing, but the work of Pompeo Batoni.” Starting February 20, the National Gallery (www.nationalgallery.org.uk) hosts a major exhibit of paintings by “Italy’s last Old Master” who is known for his portraits.

LOS ANGELES: The Getty Center is hosting important late works by Impressionist French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard entitled Consuming Passion: Fragonard’s Allegories of Love. It opens on February 12.

NEW YORK One of the world’s most acclaimed ballerinas, Russian-born Diana Vishneva, performs in an evening of solo pieces, created for her by three contemporary choreographers, at City Center (www.nycitycenter.org). February 21-24.

SAN FRANCISCO: The passionate, ground-breaking, challenging photography of Lee Friedlander takes center stage at the Museum of Modern Art. The comprehensive retrospective assembles nearly 400 pictures dating from the 1950s to the present. Opens on February 23.

SEATTLE: Roman art from Paris’ Louvre is displayed at the Seattle Art Museum in an extraordinary exhibit featuring approximately 180 pieces, many of which have never before traveled to the U.S.

SYDNEY: David Hare’s latest play, The Vertical Hour, a powerful political family drama, opens at the Sydney Theatre Company on February 9, running through March 22. Longtime theater veteran Julian Meyrick directs.

VIENNA: A show focused on 16th-century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo opens on February 12 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (www.khm.at) Coming from the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, the exhibit focuses on monographs by the whimsical Italian artist. TIP: Come on Thursday evening and reserve for the buffet in museum’s magnificent Cupola Hall.