Tate Britain

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and this exhibition will bring together the best and most important paintings from throughout his turbulent life.

Hayward Gallery

Robin Rhode

A major new talent on the international art scene, Robin Rhode has a reputation for brilliantly inventive performances, photographs, video animations and drawings. Rhode will also create site-specific works on Southbank Centre's site.

Tate Modern

Rothko

Tate Modern presents an exhibition by one of the world’s most famous and best-loved artists, Mark Rothko. Rothko’s iconic paintings, composed of luminous, soft-edged rectangles saturated with colour, are among the most enduring and mysterious created by an artist in modern times.

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

Palaces in the Night: The urban Landscape in Mr Whister's Prints

This second exhibition of the Fitzwilliam's collection of etchings, drypoints and lithographs by the American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is devoted to the cityscapes for which he is most celebrated as a printmaker. Exhibited for the first time will be the spectacular impression of The Doorway, one of two Venetian etchings recently acquired with the help of the Art Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund.

Dreams and Lies - Picasso Prints from the collection of The Fitzwilliam Museum

Picasso’s portfolio Dreams and Lies of Franco is an extraordinary document of the artist’s political and personal reaction to the Spanish Civil War. Published by Picasso in 1937 and sold in aid of the Spanish Republican cause at the Paris World Fair, where the painting Guernica was first exhibited, each print lampoons Franco and expresses anger at the repression and violent acts of his regime. Dreams and Lies of Franco was given an Art Fund grant in 2004.

Charleston 

Frank Hurley: Photographing the Great War

Australian photographer Frank Hurley is probably best known for the extraordinary pictures of Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic. He also photographed the First World War, producing some of the most technically adept and visually striking images in both colour and monochrome.

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 - Modern Art Galleries

Exhibiting Surrealism: The International Surrealist Exhibition, London 1936

The International Surrealist Exhibition opened at the New Burlington Galleries in London on 11 June 1936, and signalled the emergence of the British Surrealist group. Organised primarily by Roland Penrose, David Gascoyne and Herbert Read - with the help of French surrealists such as Breton and Eluard - it featured work by Dalí, Míro and Ernst, as well as a number of British artists. This display will draw on material from the Roland Penrose archive, which fully documents the progress of the exhibition.

Tate Liverpool

Liverpool Biennial: International Festival: MADE UP

Established in 1998, Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest festival of contemporary visual art. This is the fifth Liverpool Biennial International exhibition. MADE UP will be an exploration of the power of the artistic imagination and will involve galleries from across Liverpool as well as many new commissions in surprising places.

Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Craigie Aitchison: His Prints 1969 - 2007

Best known as a painter, Craigie Aitchison has also produced silkscreen prints and hand-coloured etchings throughout his career. This exhibition is a complete retrospective of Aitchison’s output as a printmaker, beginning with his earliest prints from the 1960s which were printed at the Kelpra Studio with Bob Saich.