2020/21 EXHIBITIONS (list updated on 25 February)
National Gallery, London Young Bomberg and the Old Masters (until 1 March) (Free) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/young-bomberg-and-the-old-masters
Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age (until 31 May) (Free) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/nicolaes-maes-dutch-master-of-the-golden-age
Titian: Love, Desire, Death (16 March – 14 June) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/titian-love-desire-death
Artemisia Gentileschi (4 April – 26 July) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/artemisia
Sin (15 April – 5 July) (Free) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/sin
Raphael (3 October – 24 January 2021) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-raphael
Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist (13 February 2021 – 16 May 2021) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/durers-journeys-travels-of-a-renaissance-artist
National Portrait Gallery, London (will be closed from June 2020 for three years for revamp!) Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things (12 March – 7 June) https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2019/cecil-beatons-bright-young-things/
David Hockney: Drawing from Life (27 February – 28 June) https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2019/david-hockney-drawing-from-life/
BP Portrait Award (21 May – 28 June) https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award-2020/exhibition/
Royal Academy Picasso and Paper (until 13 April) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/picasso-and-paper
Léon Spilliaert (until 25 May) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/leon-spilliaert
Gauguin and the Impressionists (29 March – 14 June) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/gauguin-and-the-impressionists-ordrupgaard
Summer Exhibition 2020 (9 June – 16 August) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2020
Angelica Kauffman (28 June – 20 September) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/angelica-kauffman
Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings (12 July – 18 October) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/cezanne-rock-and-quarry-paintings
Marina Abramović: After Life (26 September – 8 December) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/marina-abramovic
Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist (18 October – 24 January 2021) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/rita-angus
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul (15 November – 28 February 2021) https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/tracey-emin-edvard-munch
Tate Britain British Baroque: Power and Illusion (until 19 April) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/british-baroque
Aubrey Beardsley (4 March – 25 May) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/aubrey-beardsley
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (20 May – 31 August) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/lynette-yiadom-boakye
After Empire: Photographing Britain and the World (30 June – 27 September) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/after-empire
Turner’s Modern World (28 October – 7 March 2021) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turners-modern-world
Tate Modern Dora Maar (until 15 March) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/dora-maar
Steve McQueen (until 11 May) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/steve-mcqueen
Andy Warhol (12 March – 6 September) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/andy-warhol
Bruce Nauman (6 October – 17 January 2021) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/bruce-nauman
Rodin (21 October – 21 February 2021) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ey-exhibition-rodin
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Rooms (11 May – 9 May 2021) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/yayoi-kusama-infinity-rooms
British Museum Troy: Myth and Reality (until 8 March) https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/troy-myth-and-reality
French Impressions: Prints from Manet to Cézanne (until 9 August) (Free) https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/french-impressions-prints-manet-cezanne
Piranesi Drawings: Visions of Antiquity (until 9 August) (Free) https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/piranesi-drawings-visions-antiquity
Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution (23 April – 26 July) https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/tantra-enlightenment-revolution
Arctic: Culture and Climate (28 May – 23 August) https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/arctic-culture-and-climate
Thomas Becket (15 October – 14 February 2021) https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/thomas-becket
Nero (12 November – 28 March 2021) https://blog.britishmuseum.org/whats-on-at-the-british-museum-in-2020/
Victoria & Albert Museum Tim Walker: Wonderful Things (until 22 March) https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/tim-walker
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World (until 19 April) https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/cars
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk (29 February – 21 June) https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/kimono-kyoto-to-catwalk
Bags: Inside Out (25 April – 31 January 2021) https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/bags
Renaissance Watercolours from Dürer to Van Dyck (16 May – 20 September) https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/renaissance-watercolours-from-durer-to-van-dyck
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser (27 June – 10 January 2021) https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser
Epic Iran (17 October – 3 May 2021) https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/epic-iran
Dulwich Picture Gallery British Surrealism (until 17 May) https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2020/february/british-surrealism/
Unearthed: Photography’s Roots (17 June – 20 September) https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2020/june/unearthed/
Barbican Art Gallery Jean Dubuffet (30 September – 17 January 2021) https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2020/event/jean-dubuffet
The Queen's Gallery, London George IV: Art & Spectacle (until 3 May) https://www.rct.uk/whatson/event/914121/George-IV
Japan: Courts and Culture (12 June – 8 November) https://www.rct.uk/whatson/event/989538/Japan:-Courts-and-Culture
Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace (4 December – 30 September 2021) https://www.rct.uk/whatson/event/989555/Masterpieces-from-Buckingham-Palace
British Library Hebrew Manuscripts (20 March – 2 August) https://www.bl.uk/events/hebrew-manuscripts
Elizabeth and Mary (23 October – 21 February 2021) https://www.bl.uk/events/elizabeth-and-mary
Hayward Gallery Among the Trees (4 March – 17 May) https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/among-the-trees
Reverb: Sound into Art (24 June – 6 September) https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/reverb
Saatchi Gallery Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh (until 3 May) https://www.saatchigallery.com/art/tutankhamun.php
Turner’s House, Twickenham Turner and the Thames: Five Paintings (until 29 March) https://turnershouse.org/whats-on/
Jewish Museum London, Camden Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre? (until 1 March) https://jewishmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/charlotte-salomon/
Two Temple Place, Victoria Embankment Hidden Fabric: Women, Textiles, Collectors (until 19 April) https://twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/hidden-fabric/
Estorick Collection, Islington Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life (until 11 April) https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/tullio-crali-a-futurist-life
Museum of Gloucester The Magical World of William Simmonds: Puppets and Paintings (until 18 April) https://www.gloucester.gov.uk/museum-of-gloucester/events2/the-magical-world-of-william-simmonds- puppets-and-paintings-exhibition/
Holburne Museum, Bath Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years (until 25 May) https://www.holburne.org/events/grayson-perry-the-pre-therapy-years/
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Toulouse-Lautrec and the Masters of Montmartre (until 26 May) https://www.victoriagal.org.uk/events/toulouse-lautrec-and-masters-montmartre
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelites: Dreaming of a Medieval Past (16 May – 27 September) https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-museum-and-art-gallery/whats-on/pre-raphaelites/
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art (until 1 March) https://shop.rwa.org.uk/collections/events/products/refuge-and-renewal
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Bernd and Hilla Becher: Industrial Visions (until 1 March) https://museum.wales/cardiff/whatson/10826/Photography-Season/
Martin Parr in Wales (until 4 May) https://museum.wales/cardiff/whatson/10826/Photography-Season/
Museum of Somerset, Taunton Landscapes of the Mind: The Art of Tristram Hillier (until 18 April) https://swheritage.org.uk/events/landscapes-of-the-mind-exhibition/
Tate St Ives Naum Gabo (until 4 May) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/naum-gabo
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Henry Moore: The Artist and his Patron (until 8 March) https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/henry-moore-artist-patron/
Barnett Freedman: Designs for Modern Britain (14 March – 14 June) https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/barnett-freedman-designs-for-modern-britain/
An Outbreak of Talent: Bawden, Marx, Ravilious and their Contemporaries (14 March – 14 June) https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/outbreak-of-talent-bawden-marx-ravilious/
Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists (11 March – 28 June) https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/drawn-to-nature-gilbert-white-artists/
Ben Nicholson: From the Studio (4 July – 4 October) https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/ben-nicholson-from-the-studio/
Glyn Philpot (24 October – 21 February 2021) https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/glyn-philpot/
Southampton City Art Gallery John Hitchens: Aspects of Landscape (13 March – 27 June) https://www.southamptoncityartgallery.com/whats-on/john-hitchens-aspects-of-landscape/
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth Beyond Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy (until 21 June) http://russellcotes.com/event/brotherhood/
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works (until 31 May) https://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhibition/alan-davie-and-david-hockney-early-works/
Watts Gallery, Compton Unto This Last: 200 Years of John Ruskin (10 March – 31 May) https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/whats-on/unto-last-two-hundred-years-john-ruskin/
Henry Scott Tuke (16 June – 1 November) https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/whats-on/henry-scott-tuke/
The Lightbox, Woking David Hockney: Ways of Working (until 19 April) https://www.thelightbox.org.uk/david-hockney-ways-of-working
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 (until 26 April) https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/feast-fast-art-food-europe-1500-%E2%80%931800
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich Art Deco by the Sea (until 14 June) https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/art-deco-by-the-sea-exhibition/
Art Nouveau: The Nature of Dreams (29 March – 13 September) https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/whats-on/art-nouveau-nature-of-dreams-exhibition/
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Young Rembrandt (27 February – 7 June) https://www.ashmolean.org/youngrembrandt
Tokyo: Art & Photography (16 July – 8 November) https://www.ashmolean.org/tokyo
Compton Verney Art Gallery Cranach: Artist and Innovator (14 March – 14 June) https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/thing-to-do/cranach-artist-and-innovator/
Fabric: Touch and Identity (14 March – 14 June) https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/thing-to-do/fabric-touch-and-identity/
On Colour (4 July – 4 October) https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/compton-verney-art-gallery-and-park-unveils-2020-exhibitions/
Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury Gustave Moreau: The Fables (11 July – 25 October) https://waddesdon.org.uk/whats-on/gustave-moreau-the-fables/
Barber Institute, Birmingham Cornwall as Crucible: Modernity and Internationalism in Mid-Century Britain (until 17 May) http://barber.org.uk/cornwall-as-crucible-modernity-and-internationalism-in-mid-century-britain/
The Whitworth, Manchester Cézanne at the Whitworth (until 1 March) https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/currentexhibitions/cezanneatthewhitworth/
Tate Liverpool Theaster Gates: Amalgam (until 3 May) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/theaster-gates-amalgam
Don McCullin (5 June – 27 September) https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/don-mccullin
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool An English Lady’s Wardrobe (until 1 March) https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/wardrobe/
Linda McCartney Retrospective (25 April – 31 August) https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/linda-mccartney/
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 (4 April – 16 June) https://ysp.org.uk/exhibitions/sculpturebywomen
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Turner: Northern Exposure (until 18 April) https://www.harrogate.gov.uk/info/20152/mercer_art_gallery/704/exhibitions_at_the_mercer_art_gallery
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Judy Chicago (until 19 April) https://baltic.art/whats-on/exhibitions/judy-chicago
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle The De Morgans (14 March – 20 June) https://laingartgallery.org.uk/whats-on/the-de-morgans
Art Deco by the Sea (11 July – 10 October) https://laingartgallery.org.uk/whats-on/art-deco-by-the-sea
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Titian: Love, Desire, Death (11 July – 27 September) https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/titian-love-desire-death
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance (until 19 April) https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/paula-rego-obedience-and-defiance
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh BP Portrait Award 2019 (until 22 March) https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/bp-portrait-award-2019
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing (until 15 March) https://www.rct.uk/whatson/event/910637/Leonardo-da-Vinci
Eastern Encounters: South Asian Paintings and Manuscripts (3 April – 13 September) https://www.rct.uk/whatson/event/989568/Eastern-Encounters:-Four-Centuries-of-Paintings-and- Manuscripts-from-the-Indian-Subcontinent
George IV: Art & Spectacle (16 October – 5 April 2021) https://www.rct.uk/whatson/event/989569/George-IV:-Art-&-Spectacle
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh May Morris: Art & Life (until 14 March) https://dovecotstudios.com/exhibitions/may-morris-art-life/
Perth Museum and Art Gallery JD Fergusson (until 29 February) https://www.culturepk.org.uk/whats-on/fergusson/
More exhibition listings at the Art Fund website: https://www.artfund.org/whats-on/exhibitions
Details of ARTIST ROOMS touring exhibitions: http://www.tate.org.uk/artist-rooms
Details of Hayward Gallery touring exhibitions: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about/touring-programme/hayward-touring/current-exhibitions
The Mall Galleries in London (the national focal point for contemporary figurative art) holds regular exhibitions of work by contemporary artists, including: Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2020 (20-29 February) Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Annual Exhibition (2-17 April) Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition 2020 (7-22 May) New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020 (12-20 June) https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions
Forthcoming exhibitions at major London auction houses (viewing starts a few days before auction):
Christie’s, King Street, St James’s https://www.christies.com/Calendar?locations=36 Prints & Multiples (18 March)
Sotheby’s, New Bond Street http://www.sothebys.com/en/calendar Old Masters (29 April) Fine Japanese Art (12 May) Impressionist & Modern Art (23-24 June) Contemporary Art (25-26 June) Modern & Post-War British Art (30 June – 1 July)