British Museum

The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock              

This exhibition features around 150 prints by 74 modern American artists, including George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois and Jackson Pollock. The first half of the 20th century was a period of great change in America, and this exhibition examines American society and culture through the prints produced by some of the most important artists of the time.

National Portrait Gallery

BP Portrait Award 2008

An annual competition aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon and develop the theme of portraiture in their work, the Award is open to everyone aged 18 and over in recognition of the outstanding and innovative work currently being produced by artists of all ages.

V & A

China Design Now

The exhibition captures a dynamic phase as China opens up to global influences, and looks at developments in three rapidly expanding cities - Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. It displays the work of Chinese and international designers, focussing on architecture, fashion, youth culture and graphics as well as film, photography, product and furniture design and digital media

Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting

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

Bowes Museum

Alfred Sisley: Impressionist Landscapes

Alfred Sisley was an acclaimed member of the Impressionist group. The exhibition explores Sisley's captivation with the landscape of the Parisian suburbs including Louveciennes, where John and Joséphine Bowes had lived at Château du Barry. The extraordinary quality of Sisley's paintings and their subject matter are sure to engage and delight.

Cardiff Castle

National Galleries Scotland

Impressionism and Scotland

This summer’s landmark exhibition is Impressionism & Scotland, featuring world-class art by the French Impressionists and the Scots they inspired.The show includes over 100 paintings by many of the greatest names in Western art: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Degas, Whistler, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, the Glasgow Boys, the Scottish Colourists, and many more.

National Galleries of Scotland

From Sickert to Gertler Modern British Art from Boxted House

This exhibition celebrates the lives of Bobby and Natalie Bevan and the works that hung on the walls of their home, Boxted House in Essex, which became a gathering place for artists after the Second World War. The exhibition contains important works alongside unusual and private works, and archival material from the period 1894-1970.

Tate Liverpool

Abstraction

Through a series of displays, this floor highlights key moments from the development of abstract art. Starting with the early decades of the twentieth century and experiments in Cubism and Expressionism, it explores the wide variety of work that constitutes Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s and 1950s, before looking at the expanded field of practice that has followed more recently.

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.