Here’s a quick glance at the five top shows in the UK that have been in news thus far. You may check them online for a sumptuous art treat.
Turner Inspired, National Gallery (Mar 14 – June 5)
The most extensive study of Claude Lorrain's influence on Turner, including oils, watercolors and sketchbooks from both (www.nationalgallery.org.uk). Works on loan from Tate Britain and other collections, including Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Night, 1835, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Picasso & Modern British Art, Tate Britain (Feb 15 – July 15)
More than 150 works from major public and private collections around the world, including 60 by Picasso at Tate (www.tate.org.uk). Picasso's paintings considered alongside works by artists he inspired including Hockney, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon, whose Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944, will be on display.
Damien Hirst, Tate Modern (April 4 - Sep 9)
First major UK retrospective of Hirst's career at Tate where more than 70 of his seminal works, including the £7 million pickled shark, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, and Mother and Child Divided, 1993, the bisected cow and calf which won the Turner Prize in 1995.
Highlights include a range of Hirst's trademark spot, spin and butterfly paintings, and the installation, 'In and Out of Love', 1991.
David Hockney show, Royal Academy (Jan 21 – April 9)
More than 150 of Hockney's works spanning 50 years, focusing on his large-scale landscapes (www.royalacademy.org.uk). First show of Hockney's films. First major display of Hockney's "new technology" works created on his iPhone and iPad. Highlights include ‘Rocky Mountains and Tired Indians’, 1965; ‘Garrowby Hill’, 1998; and ‘The Road Across The Wolds’, 1997.
Lucian Freud Portraits, National Portrait Gallery (Feb 9 – May 27)
More than 100 of Freud's paintings. First display of Freud's last painting, Portrait of the Hound, 2011 (www.npg.org.uk). Works on loan from international public and private collections, including MOMA New York and Art Institute of Chicago.
Turner Inspired, National Gallery (Mar 14 – June 5)
The most extensive study of Claude Lorrain's influence on Turner, including oils, watercolors and sketchbooks from both (www.nationalgallery.org.uk). Works on loan from Tate Britain and other collections, including Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Night, 1835, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Picasso & Modern British Art, Tate Britain (Feb 15 – July 15)
More than 150 works from major public and private collections around the world, including 60 by Picasso at Tate (www.tate.org.uk). Picasso's paintings considered alongside works by artists he inspired including Hockney, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon, whose Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944, will be on display.
Damien Hirst, Tate Modern (April 4 - Sep 9)
First major UK retrospective of Hirst's career at Tate where more than 70 of his seminal works, including the £7 million pickled shark, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, and Mother and Child Divided, 1993, the bisected cow and calf which won the Turner Prize in 1995.
Highlights include a range of Hirst's trademark spot, spin and butterfly paintings, and the installation, 'In and Out of Love', 1991.
David Hockney show, Royal Academy (Jan 21 – April 9)
More than 150 of Hockney's works spanning 50 years, focusing on his large-scale landscapes (www.royalacademy.org.uk). First show of Hockney's films. First major display of Hockney's "new technology" works created on his iPhone and iPad. Highlights include ‘Rocky Mountains and Tired Indians’, 1965; ‘Garrowby Hill’, 1998; and ‘The Road Across The Wolds’, 1997.
Lucian Freud Portraits, National Portrait Gallery (Feb 9 – May 27)
More than 100 of Freud's paintings. First display of Freud's last painting, Portrait of the Hound, 2011 (www.npg.org.uk). Works on loan from international public and private collections, including MOMA New York and Art Institute of Chicago.
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