AUGUST The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere focused on Egon Schiele (1890–1918) and his “Tafelrunde” [Round Table]. An employee at the Hermitage Museum in Moscow died when a check discovered the missing of over 200 articles, Russian web edition of Gazeta Ru announced. The Parrish Art Museum released the design concept for its new facility, created by internationally celebrated architects Herzog & de Meuron. Statens Museum for Kunst opened French Master Drawings. From Manet and Degas to Matisse and Picasso. The National Gallery of Scotland opened Ron Mueck. A Courbet painting that has not been seen in public for almost 30 years is now on display at the National Gallery, London. The J. Paul Getty Trust announced that the chair of the Board of Trustees, John Biggs, would retire from the Board no later than October 31, 2006. British art experts announced that one of Australia's prized paintings by Vincent Van Gogh could be a fake. Spencer Tunick, with the support of Museum Kunst Palast, created a three-dimensional body sculpture involving a hitherto unknow amount of nude people in Dusseldorf. The Reynolda House Museum of American Art opened American Watercolors 1880 – 1965. National Gallery of Art in Washington opened Alexandre Charpentier. A small portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, long considered to date from the eighteenth century, has now been discovered to be an image painted within her lifetime or possibly very shortly after her death. The Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden opened a comprehensive retrospective of Marc Chagall. A fire broke out Friday afternoon at Trinity Cathedral in St. Petersburg and the dome collapsed. The head of the local museum protection watchdog said that it would take at least 18 months to repair the cathedral. The National Gallery in Washington presents The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. The Reynolda House Museum of American Art opens Self/Image: Portraiture from Copley to Close. The Cincinnati Art Museum announced the appointment of Aaron Betsky as director. The Museo del Prado announced that the exhibition in Tokyo had more than half a million visitors.