Tate Britain

The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting

This exhibition will explore the responses of British artists to the cultures and landscapes of the Near and Middle East between 1780 and 1930, offering vital historical and cultural perspectives on the challenging questions of the ‘Orient’ and its representation in British art.

Hayward Gallery

Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture

Taking its title from a book by artist Martin Kippenberger, the exhibition brings together the work of artists who create habitat-like structures and architectural environments that are mental and perceptual spaces as much as physical ones. Viewers enter and explore a series of atmospheric, spatially dynamic constructions that use elements of light, colour, smell and design to trigger profound visceral responses that heighten their attention to the relationship between the individual and their surroundings.

Tate Modern

Cy Twombly

This exhibition presents works by Cy Twombly, one of the most highly regarded painters working today and a foremost figure among the generation of American artists that includes Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. Twombly rose to prominence through a distinctive style characterised by scribbles and vibrantly daubed paint. This is his first solo retrospective in fifteen years, and provides an overview of his work from the 1950s to now.

Barber Institute of Art

Mysterious Depths: Dreams, Mortality and the Subconscious

Human psychology has fascinated artists, writers and thinkers from the dawn of civilization. This display explores how artists from several eras have searched and questioned our perception and experience of the world through contemplating the depths of the human mind. Three recurring and interconnected themes can be traced: the mystery of dreams; the concept of the human subconscious and inner vision; and the unavoidable and unknowable realms of our own mortality.

Fitzwilliam Museum

Christopher Le Brun - Fifty Etchings 2005

Christopher Le Brun’s first major etching project was the series Fifty Etchings published by Paragon Press in 1990. In 2004 he embarked on a second series, which is displayed in full in this exhibition. Made over the course of a year and employing an extraordinary variety of subtle etching techniques, the series revisits a wide range of subjects known from Le Brun’s other work, while also introducing new themes and motifs.

Pallant House Gallery

Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age

Colin Self (b.1941) was a leading figure in the 1960's British Pop Art movement and one of the first British artists to explore Cold War politics and the nuclear threat. Described by Richard Hamilton as 'the best draughtsman in England since William Blake', this exhibition, the first retrospective of his work, includes his powerful prints, paintings, collages and sculptures from 1960 to the present day.

Tate St Ives

Modernism in St Ives

A new selection of works, drawn from the Tate Collection, which explores the influence of constructivism and the development of abstraction in St Ives during the middle of the last century. It includes works by Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Terry Frost.

National Galleries of Scotland

Vanity Fair Portraits, 1913-2008

150 remarkable and memorable photographic portraits from that unique barometer of cultural zeitgeist - Vanity Fair magazine - will go on display this summer at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The portraits showcase the work of many of the most renowned photographers of the twentieth century, including Baron De Meyer, Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton and Man Ray, as well as examples by celebrated contemporaries such as Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts.

Tate Liverpool

Gustave Klimt: Painting Design & Modern Life in Vienna 1990

To celebrate Liverpool as European City of Culture 2008, Tate Liverpool presents the first comprehensive exhibition of Gustav Klimt's work ever staged in the UK. The exhibition focuses on the life and art of one of the world's most influential and revered artists.  It will explore Klimt's role as the founder and leader of the Viennese Succession, a progressive group of artists and artisans. The work and philosophy of the Succession embraced art, architecture, fashion, dazzling decorative objects and furniture in their search for identity.

Whitworth Art Gallery

Neverland: Rediscovering Child Art?

This exhibition features work by Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Paul Klee, Joan Miro, CoBrA artists Karel Appel and Lucebert who were inspired by children's art, seeing a unique creativity and spontaneity at play.