The Foundling Museum

Handel the Philanthropist

Marking the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death (14 April 1759) this exhibition marks this anniversary, focussing on Handel’s charitable life as well as his musical career in the 18th century that was intrinsically linked to his altruistic activities.

Royal Academy

Byzantium 330-1453

This exhibition provides a grand-scale survey of 1,000 years of history. Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, the exhibition will incorporate over 300 objects. Some of the works have never been displayed in public before.

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Barbican Art Gallery

Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture

Le Corbusier (1887-1965), widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. This exhibition is the first major survey in London of the internationally renowned architect in more than 20 years.

The Courtauld Gallery

Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence

This exhibition explores one of the most important art forms of Renaissance Florence: pairs of great chests, lavishly decorated with precious metals and elaborate paintings. These items – now generally called cassoni – were often the most expensive of a whole suite of decorative objects commissioned to celebrate marriage alliances between powerful families.

Southampton City Art Gallery

Unpopular Culture

Grayson Perry selects from the Arts Council Collection. The exhibition will highlight this emerging aspect of Perry’s practise and offer a unique and personal view of the Arts Council Collection. For over a year Perry has researched the Arts Council Collection’s holdings, painstakingly scouring acquisition catalogues and considering works in the stores.

Manchester Art Gallery

Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection

This exhibition is a rare chance to see ten of the Royal Collection's fantastic drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, from an exquisite study of a human skull, to a map and a drawing of an arsenal, many of these delicate drawings have never been on permanent display due to their fragile nature.

'I Turned it into a Palace': Sir Sydney Cockerell and The Fitzwilliam Museum

This exhibition will celebrate one of the most enriching periods in the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Directorship of Sir Sydney Cockerell (1908-37). To mark the centenary of the foundation of the Friends in 1909, the exhibition will conclude with a recent acquisition which attracted their most generous contribution ever and the largest public support in the history of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Macclesfield Psalter. The public campaign was launched by The Art Fund and generously donated to by Art Fund members.

Tate St Ives

Ben Nicholson: A Continuous Line

Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the most radical British artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition reconsiders his position in British art history offering a new understanding of the modern in art, particularly in relation to national and local identities.

National Galleries of Scotland - National Portrait Gallery

The Intimate Portrait: Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence

During the Georgian and Regency periods oil paintings and sculpture dominated the public arena for portraiture. Whether in art exhibitions or the principal rooms of town and country residences, more private portraits were being created for domestic consumption and display. This exhibition brings together portraits from the era in a fascinating display.

National Galleries of Scotland

Turner in January 2009: The Vaughan Bequest

These works, bequeathed by Henry Vaughan, span Turner's long career, from his early topographical wash drawings to the atmospheric sketches of continental Europe from the 1830s and '40s. Vaughan stipulated in his bequest that these delicate watercolours should only be shown in January when natural daylight is at its weakest, so they will not fade.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Impressionism and Scotland

An opportunity to see over 30 masterpieces by many of the greatest names in Western art – Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Whistler, Cezanne and Matisse and the Scots they inspired, including the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists.

The Burrell Collection

Joseph Crawhall: The Masterpieces

This exhibition celebrates the Burrell Collection’s 25th birthday. This special display showcases Joseph Crawhall’s greatest works. Joseph Crawhall was a brilliant and inventive water-colourist. He is traditionally grouped with the artists known as the Glasgow Boys, who worked in and around Glasgow during the period 1880 to 1900.

The Bowes Museum

Turner in Teesdale

An in depth exploration of The Bowes Museum’s watercolours by JMW Turner. This display will feature the recently acquired Bowes Tower, produced to illustrate Walter Scott’s epic poem Rokeby.

Sudley House

Unfolding

Unfolding is an exhibition of art works made from paper based material, which has been folded to form three dimensional shapes. The sculptures have been made for different rooms in Sudley House and each piece of work is inspired by the way that room was originally used.

Laing Art Gallery

Visual Dialogues: Tracey Emin

An installation of eleven plaster seagulls by Tracey Emin is on show at the Laing, as part of a partnership project with Tate.

Museums Sheffield: Millenium Galleries

Treasures from the V&A 400-1600 AD

This exhibition of spans more than 1200 years of European art and craftsmanship. Throughout this period, artists created awe-inspiring symbols of human wealth, power and religion. Whether adorning Europe’s greatest abbeys and churches, or the homes of its richest families, these objects remind us that every work of art has its own unique story to tell.

Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group

Robert Bevan was one of 16 founder members of the Camden Town Group, the most important British Post-Impressionist movement. It held its inaugural exhibition in 1911, but by the start of the First World War it had disbanded. Southampton holds one of the finest collections of Camden Town Group work outside the Tate in the world.

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