Wallace Collection

Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster

Osbert Lancaster was one of the most famous artistic personalities of his day, renowned as an architectural satirist, illustrator, theatre designer and cartoonist. This exhibition, which marks the centenary of his birth, will celebrate the astonishing range of Lancaster as an artist and as a chronicler of style and fashion, drawing on an unparalleled archive of original designs, illustrations, works on paper, sketchbooks, theatre sets and photographs, none of which have ever been previously exhibited.

Imperial War Museum

Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust

The exhibition features Roman Halter's Memories of the Holocaust, ArtFunded 2007. A new art exhibition examining how artists have responded to the Nazi attempted annihilation of the Jews of Europe from the 1940s to the present day.

Royal Academy

Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists

This exhibition demonstrates the achievement of the famous Galerie Maeght. Founded by Aimé and Marguerite Maeght, the gallery opened in Paris in 1945 and was to become one of the most influential and creative galleries of the twentieth century. The artists it showed expressed a bold new spirit in art which exploded in France after the dark years of the war.

The Bowes Museum

Faith and Love: Picturing the Bible from Raphael to El Greco

The exhibition will look at some of the most popular depictions of Old and New Testament stories including Moses in the Bulrushes, David and Goliath, the Nativity and the Flight into Egypt. Displays include important paintings and artefacts from the museum’s world class collection of European art as well as loans from national collections.

Bodelwyddan Castle

British Watercolours and Drawings 1750 - 1950

Bodelwyddan Castle will be showing an exhibition of British watercolours, ranging in date from 1750 to 1950.  The exhibition includes a number of paintings from artists who were inspired by the beautiful landscape of North Wales.

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.

National Museum Scotland

Jean Muir: A Fashion Icon

Famous for her use of tactile fabrics and minimalist designs, Muir had a large and loyal fanbase, from royalty to politicians, actresses and models. This exhibition examines Muir's training, early career and emergence as a major designer in the 1960s
 

Walker Art Gallery

John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize

Now in its 50th Year and a major part of the Liverpool Biennial, a city-wide festival showcasing International contemporary art. Visitors will also be able to vote for their favourite painting in the exhibition n the Visitors’ Choice prize.

Tate Liverpool

DLA Piper Series: The Twentieth Century: How it looked and felt

This exhibition presents major works of art from the Tate Collection across three floors of the Gallery, forming the largest single display to date of the Collection at Tate Liverpool. The display explores the art of the twentieth century, and its legacies in the twenty-first, focusing on the development of figurative and abstract art.

Whitworth Art Gallery

Putting on The Glitz: wallpapers and wallcoverings with that extra something

Selected from the Whitworth's collection, this exhibition features luxurious 18th century decorated leather, 19th century Japanese and French imitations, foils and other metallic finishes from the 1960s/70s, along with contemporary jewelled patterns that our ancestors might have envied.

Indulging our appetite for glamour, this exhibition shows that glitz is no longer only the preserve of the well-off.

The Ashmolean Museum

Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins and Casts

Over two hundred of the most significant objects in the Ashmolean's world-renowned collections of Archaeology, Eastern Art, Coins and Casts are on display side by side in an exhibition lasting throughout the Museum's major redevelopment.

The Herbert

Something that I'll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from the V&A

Photography has taken centre stage in the world of contemporary art since the beginning of the 1990s. Throughout this period, the V&A in London has been at the forefront of collecting photography. The photographs in this exhibiton are drawn from the museum's permanent collection, including some of the most innovative works created during a pivotal period in photographic history.

Compton Verney

Masquerade and Spectacle: The Circus and the Travelling Fair

Jack B. Yeats (1871 – 1957), brother of W.B. Yeats, is one of the most internationally acclaimed Irish painters of the early twentieth century. His paintings are often poetically titled and hint at more personal motivations underlying the characters depicted and his own ideas of creativity and artistic intent.

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.