day trippers; Traveling in Europe this summer.

Byline: Leslie Camhi

Renowned for their flirtatious elegance, the women of Arles have long inspired artists. If you find yourself in the South of France, don't miss "Pablo Picasso: Portraits of Arlesiennes," at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, a show uniting his early Cubistic canvases; ferocious paintings of Lee Miller in traditional costume; and harmonious images of his wife Jacqueline as a local beauty. "Picasso's Arlesiennes were scattered all over the world," says Yolande Clergue, the museum's founding president, who with her husband, photographer Lucien Clergue, befriended the painter during his sojourns in the city of sunflowers. "Finally," she says, "they're returning to the land of their birth."

International art exhibitions have sprouted around the globe, but the Venice Biennale is the mother of them all. Every two years, artists, gallerists, curators, collectors, and scenemakers converge on La Serenissima to sample new work by established and emerging masters. For the first time since the Biennale's inception more than a century ago, the ...