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Kevin Cummins/Disclosure Featuring images from 40 years of Rock portraits From his early work with his hometown bands such as Joy Division and The Smiths, to his later work with Rock legends such as Bowie and Jagger, Cummins has alwa...

30 March to 11 April 2015
 Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1 The solo exhibition by Threadneedle Prize 2014 winner Tina Jenkins opens at Mall Galleries on 30 March, exploring the theme of hysteria in a collection of striking new wo...

Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street Style 5 March – 31 August 2015 To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1945, IWM London is holding a major new exhibition ‘Fashion on the Ration’, exploring...

Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, has announced that the painter Albert Irvin sadly passed away on 26 March at the great age of 92. The gallery says ‘Bert was a wonderful gentleman and an amazing artist and will be sadly missed by many’. ...

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) has announced that the major redevelopment project for the Scottish National Gallery has passed the first crucial stage of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) application process. The £15.3 m reno...

‘Love Bites’ marks the 200th anniversary of the death of the great caricaturist James Gillray (1757–1815). His political and social satires were the Private Eye of his day – unflinchingly cruel at times, but keenly anticipated ...

The collection of British drawings and watercolours in the Ashmolean is one of the largest and most important in the world. It ranges widely, from Flemish artists working in Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, to the experiments in modernism instiga...

A new landmark has been erected on the south bank of the Thames, close to Tower Bridge and opposite the Tower of London. After many months of planning, design and construction, a beautiful new sundial was inaugurated on Thursday 18 March by the Mayor of...

This morning (21 March) at 8a.m. eager buyers were let into the Dyson Gallery at London's Royal College of Art for the much anticipated Stewarts Law RCA Secret Sale Day. Some dedicated collectors had camped for nearly a week to get to the front of t...

In the wake of Cheltenham Gold Cup excitement, Berkshire auction house Dreweatts are celebrating British sporting art in a fine pictures sale. The auction, on Wednesday 25 March, curated by James Harvey, International Head of Fine Art and Private Treaty...

Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery ‘Homage to Manet’ On now until 19 April 2015 including work by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent , Philip Wilson Steer, Walter Sickert, Gwen John, William Orpen , ...

John Swannell is guest of honour at exhibition launch on 21 March Newly acquired works by photographers John Swannell and Susan Derges have been added to the exhibition ‘Drawn By Light: The Royal Photographic Society Collection’ whic...

The UK’s National Gallery has announced that Dr Gabriele Finaldi has been appointed Director, taking over from Sir Nicholas Penny, who will be retiring in August . London-born Dr Finaldi studied art history at Dulwich College and then at th...

Now on till 4 April 2015 ‘L12121 Picture Panoply’ New print works by Niall Naessens Niall Naessens’ show of prints of Irish landscapes has received an enthusiastic response from both international admirers ( W...

You might think that on the day the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honourable George Osborne, reveals his budget plans for the year ahead he would have enough on his plate. But he has found time to launch a new pound coin. Not worth as much a...

Summer comes early with bright and colourful art activities celebrating the Ben Uri’s current exhibition, 'Notting Hill Carnival: The A-Z of the Elimu Carnival Band'. 11a.m.–1p.m., Sunday 22 March at Ben Uri Gallery , 108a ...

New Rhythms: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: Art, Dance and Movement in London 1911–1915’
 Tuesday 17 March 2015– Sunday 21 June 2015

 Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
, UK Alexander Archipenko, David Bomberg, Jacob Ep...

Art Basel Hong Kong 13 – 17 March 2015 We couldn’t resist the image of this beautiful work by Isabel Nolan. It is one of the works by Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, Callum Innes, Brian Maguire, Isabel Nolan, ...

Patrick RICHARD [O2] – Photo Exhibition in Liege, Belgium On now until 16 May 2015 [O2], Patrick Richard’s 5th exhibition, was held in 2011 at the Kendra Gallery in Bali, then in 2012 and 2013 in Singapore and Tha&iu...

To complement the show of Chinese Jade currently on view at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York, Dr Elizabeth Childs-Johnsonwill give a talk on: 'The Beauty of Jade: The Warring States Period and Han Dynasty, c. 475 BCE – 220 CE' at...

Friday, 13 March through Sunday, 22 March ‘Before Yongle – Chinese and Tibeto-ChineseBuddhist Sculpture of the 13th and 14th Centuries’ After 15 years of research, this exhibition aims to bring new light into a somew...

An exhibition of Norman Town's wartime works on paper will be held at the Maas Gallery, 15A Clifford Street, London W1S 4JZ from 9 to 14 March (organized by The Canon Gallery). Some of Town's work was only discovered in 2004 when it turned up in...

Britannia, the much loved symbol of Britain, was last stamped on a coin back in 2008, when she was replaced on the 50 pence coin by a design featuring the Royal shield of arms. Now she is back - and in some style as she has been promoted to the two-poun...

100 Years of Women IWM North celebrates inspirational women for International Women’s Day 2015 From motorcycle riding medics pioneering front-line care to a courageous soldier-smuggling nurse, IWM North, part of Imperial War Muse...

Rose English – Book launch Wednesday, 11 March 2015, 7-9p.m. Camden Arts Centre, London In the lead up to Rose English's summer exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, a new book, Abstract Vaudeville: The Work of Ros...