Thousands of mid-summer concerts in a score of European nations kick off the season's music festivals, with the biggest this month in Glastonbury, Britain, and in Madrid, with Rock in Rio. Following is the best of what's on in Europe next month. AUSTRIA ------- ART/FILM: Remember 'The Third Man'? A new exhibit at Vienna's Wien Museum, May 27 to September 19, traces the city's image on film over the last 100 years, from silent to talking movies and up into the 21st century. 'Vienna in Film - a century of city images' features excerpts from Austrian and international films, contrasting scenes shot in the studio and on location, waltzes and film noir, empire and Cold War spy stories. Among the most famous works to be put on show are Carol Reed's quintessential post-war Vienna movie 'The Third Man,' as well as Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and the 1923 film 'Der junge Medardus' by 'Casablanca' director Michael Curtiz. www.wienmuseum.at ART: The Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, just outside Vienna, pays tribute to French artist Niki de Saint Phalle until September 26. The retrospective 'In the Garden of Imagination' includes several of her shooting paintings -- the so-called 'Tirs' -- her famous Nanas sculptures, as well as artwork from her Tuscan Tarot Garden and pieces created with Swiss artist Jean Tinguely. www.sammlung-essl.at BRITAIN ------- ART: 'Newspeak: British Art Now' showcases the latest works by a new generation of British artists, the followers of Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and the Chapman Brothers, at the Saatchi Gallery from June 2 to October 17. http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/ ART: Examples of Britain's rich tradition of comic art dating back 400 years, from satirical paintings to smutty seaside postcards and 'Spitting Image' puppets, make up 'Rude Britannia' at Tate Britain from June 9 to September 10. http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/britishcomicart/ GARDENS: Many of London's private gardens are open to the public for the weekend of June 12-13, giving visitors and residents a chance to peer into the capital's hidden spaces such as allotments, private squares and roof terraces. http://www.opensquares.org/ MUSIC: Stevie Wonder, Groove Armada, Snoop Dogg and Jack Johnson are among the big acts at Glastonbury Festival on June 23-27, this year celebrating its 40th birthday, although U2 had to pull out after Bono hurt his back. The sold-out festival has its roots in the hippy movement but now embraces all types of music and performing arts -- although it has become more famous for its weather, with regular downpours turning it into a mud bath. http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/ DENMARK ------- FESTIVAL/HISTORY: In a return to the past, 250 children and adults live the life of Vikings between 23 June to 11 July in Frederikssund, Northern Zealand. There will also be a special Viking Market 25-27 June as well as Viking games, plays, food and drink, music, souvenirs and handicrafts throughout the festival. http://www.vikingespil.dk FRANCE ------ ART/FESTIVAL: France kicks off its first major homage to Impressionism this month including exhibitions, a Claude Debussy opera, a major art show in Rouen and 19th-century-style riverside balls and open-air picnics. The prelude to the Impressionist festival taking place throughout the Normandy region will be the June 4 opening of a show in Rouen featuring 130 works from Impressionist masters depicting the city, including 11 of its cathedral at different times of the day by Claude Monet. www.normandieimpressioniste.fr ART: Young French talent highlighted from June 11 at a show titled 'Dynasty' organised jointly by the Palais de Tokyo and the Modern Art Museum in Paris, reopening for the occasion after the theft last month of five masterpieces, including works by Matisse and Picasso. www.dynasty-expo.com FINLAND ------- MUSIC: June kicks off music festival season across Finland. Provinssirock brings Finnish and international artists including Rammstein, Bullet for My Valentine and Sonata Arctica to Seinajoki June 18 to 20. www.provinssirock.fi On June 5, Helsinki Live offers Guns N Roses, White Lies and Skunk Anansie, among others. www.helsinkilivefestival.fi/ The Raft Jazz festival also on June 5 combines jazzy tunes with wilderness adventure in Kuusamo. www.rukapalvelu.fi/en/10_3.html For an alphabetical listing of music festivals in Finland, visit www.festarit.org/kotimaiset_festarit GERMANY --------- ART: Berlin plays host to the most comprehensive exhibition of works by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo ever staged, with more than 150 paintings and drawings on display. At the Martin Gropius Bau until August 9. www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/aktuell/festivals/11_gropiusbau THEATRE: Oberammergau makes good on an almost four-century-old tradition of putting on a 'Passion Play' about Jesus Christ every 10 years, with only inhabitants of the 5,200-strong Bavarian village allowed to take part. More than 100 performances to October 3. www.passionplay-oberammergau.com/ OPERA: Acclaimed Canadian director Robert Carsen stages Richard Wagner's 'Ring Cycle' of four epic operas at the Cologne Opera House from June 1-13, a warm-up for the Bayreuth festival in Bavaria starting July 25. http://www.operkoeln.com/ http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/ ITALY ------ ART: French-born New York-based artist Louise Bourgeois, now 98, on show in Venice with little-known works in cloth as well as sketches from between 2002 and 2008. The show at the Emilio and Annabianca Vedova foundation from June 5 to September 19 features collages and other assembled works dating from the 1960s created from her own clothes to tell 'intimate and symbolic' stories. Titled 'The Fabric Works', the show opens with 'Crouching Spider', one of her renowned steel spiders. www.fondazionevedova.org NORWAY ------ MUSIC: The yearly Norwegian Wood Rockefestival this year notably brings Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Amy MacDonald and the DumDum Boys to Frognerbadet, near the Vigeland park from June 10 to 13. www.norwegianwood.no PORTUGAL -------- ART/INTERNET: 'Surrealism now' in Coimbra gathers 56 works by 56 artists from 31 countries representing a 21st century surrealist movement developed thanks to the Internet and mentored by US artist Keith Wigdor. Running until June 30 the show is on at the Bissaya Barreto foundation in the central Portuguese town. www.fbb.pt RUSSIA ------ THEATRE: The Chekhov theatre festival, running to 30 July, marks the 150th anniversary of the writer with a variety of performances of his works, including from Argentina, Germany and Russia. www.chekhovfest.ru MUSIC: An open-air jazz festival running June 5 and 6 at the historical estate of Arkhangelskoye outside Moscow features 100 musicians playing on five stages and fireworks. www.usadba-jazz.ru FILM: The Moscow International Film Festival, running from June 17 to 26, presents premieres as well as retrospectives of avant-garde socialist cinema, the Nouvelle Vague and Claude Chabrol. The programme includes the premiere of a documentary by acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov. www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/eng SPAIN ------- MUSIC: Madrid hosts the Rock in Rio festival for only the second time since its launch in Brazil in 1985. Among those appearing are Miley Cyrus, Shakira, Bon Jovi, Cypress Hill, Rihanna, Mcfly and heavy metal rockers Metallica. In the Madrid suburb of Arganda del Rey, June 4, 5, 6, 11 and 14. www.rockinriomadrid.es MUSIC: the 17th edition of the Sonar festival of electronic music takes place in Barcelona and in La Coruna from June 17 to 19. Performers include The Chemical Brothers, Air, LCD Soundsystem, 2manydjs and Roxy Music. www.sonar.es SWEDEN ------ PHOTOGRAPHY: Stockholm's new Fotografiska museum, opened on May 21, showcasts a retrospective of star photographer Annie Leibovitz's work, until September 12. The 'A child is born' exhibit by Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson is also on display until September 5, along with other exhibits, workshops and seminars. http://en.fotografiska.eu/ SWITZERLAND ----------- ART/FAIR: The unmissable Basel Art Fair, a leading annual date in modern and contemporary art and a sure-fire indicator of the state of the art market, unrolls from June 16 to 20. Around 300 of the world's leading galleries are attending. www.artbasel.com MUSIC: Star pianist Martha Argerich brings some 50 artists to the shores of the lake in Lugano for an annual get-together June 11 to July 1. This year's programme will focus especially on Chopin and Schumann to mark the bicentenaries of their birth. www.rtsi.ch/argerich MUSIC: The city of Ascona holds Europe's leading hot jazz festival from June 24 to July 4, with more than 200 musicians offering over 400 hours of music including swing, blues, gospel and mainstream. www.jazzascona.ch) 