National Gallery

Love

Comprising works of art from the 15th century to the present day, this exhibition explores how artists have represented love. It demonstrates how artists including Raphael, Cranach, Vermeer, Holman Hunt, Marc Chagall, Tracey Emin and Marc Quinn have described or responded to love in all its complexities, across the centuries and in a variety of styles.

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.

The Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Cezannes

The Courtauld Gallery holds the most important group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain. This exhibition presents the entire collection for the first time with major paintings such as the iconic Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1887)and Card Players (1892-5) shown alongside rarely seen drawings and watercolours.

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery

Chinese Whispers: Chinoiserie in Britain 1650 - 1930

Brighton’s flamboyant Royal Pavilion provides a suitably hothouse flowering of the style and provides the inspiration and focus for this major exhibition.

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.

National Museum Cardiff

Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009

This prestigious annual competition attracts over 18,000 entries from amateur and professional photographers worldwide. See the best images of the natural world and celebrate the beauty, drama and variety of life on Earth.

Bodelwyddan Castle

Beatles Photographic Exhibition

Bodelwyddan Castle will be celebrating this summer in 60’s style as it presents an outstanding collection of Beatles images from the National Portrait Gallery. The images on show are to include a mixture of well-known, rare and unseen photographs by famous photographers who helped to shape the group’s public image.

National Gallery Complex

Impressionism and Scotland

An opportunity to see over 100 masterpieces by many of the greatest names in Western art: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissaro, Degar, Whistler, Van Gogh, the Glasgow Boys, the Scottish Colourists, and many more.

National Galleries of Scotland

Tracey Emin: 20 years

The exhibition looks at the full range of Tracey Emin's work, from the rarely seen early work to the iconic My Bed, 1998, and the room-sized installation Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, 1996. The exhibition includes a range of appliquéd blankets, paintings, sculptures, films, neons, drawings and prints, to provide the most complete view of Emin’s work ever mounted. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is the only UK venue for the show.
 

Walker Art Gallery

Ben Johnson's Liverpool Cityscape 2008 and the World Panorama Series

Famous city landmarks are reproduced in amazing detail in this huge architectural panorama. This exhibition also includes historical views of Liverpool, demonstrating the long tradition into which the new cityscape fits.

Tate Liverpool

Gustav 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

Flights of Fancy: select decorative themes of the 1920s and 30s

In the early 20th century the influence of Modernism encouraged a move away from highly patterned walls. This change in fashion affected wallpaper production as a whole and manufacturers, keen to retain their customers, produced numerous fancy paper decorations to add visual interest to plain or textured backgrounds. This exhibition features some of the most colourful and elaborate decorations in the Whitworth's collection, together with many artists' impressions of their effects in decorative schemes.

Christ Church Picture Gallery

Forty years ago Christ Church Picture Gallery was opened by the Her Majesty the Queen. Christ Church’s art collection was now housed in a purpose-built, prize-winning gallery by the architect team Powell & Moya. This important event will be marked by two exhibitions - one of Old Master drawings selected by the Gallery’s previous Curators and the other a documentation of the history of Powell and Moya’s prize-winning purpose-built construction.