The Twentieth Century: How it looked & how it felt is a major new display of some of the best works from the Tate Collection. Almost 200 key works are presented across three floors in the largest single display of Collection works ever seen at Tate Liverpool. The displays take you on a journey from the early twentieth century through to the first years of the current century. They tell a rich, interweaving story of modern and contemporary art in two parallel displays exploring the histories of ...

Fashion V Sport, explores the relationship between contemporary fashion and global sportswear brands. Both industries have been inspired by street style and have been working in closer collaboration in recent years. On display are around 60 outfits including performance sportswear, work by fashion designers such as Stella McCartney who have designed sportswear ranges, and garments such as the work of Japanese label Visvim which show the influence of sportswear on high fashion....

No artist living in the second half of the 20th century has made a deeper impression on popular culture and consciousness than Andy Warhol (1928-87). The Hayward presents a major exhibition that brings a fresh perspective to his work, showing works from the 1950s through to the 1980s. The exhibition presents Warhol’s films, screen-tests, videos and television programmes, which combined with extraordinary archive material, seminal paintings and installations, illuminates his creative process. ...

Tate Modern presents an exhibition by one of the world’s most famous and best-loved artists, Mark Rothko. This is the first significant exhibition of his work to be held in the UK for over 20 years. Tate Modern's iconic 'Rothko Room' works are reunited for the first time with works from Japan. The Seagram Murals were originally commissioned for The Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building New York. Rothko’s iconic paintings, composed of luminous, soft-edged rectangles saturated ...

Established in 1998, Liverpool Biennial is the UK’s largest festival of contemporary visual art, and it contributed significantly to the award of the title European Capital of Culture 2008 to the city of Liverpool. This is the fifth Liverpool Biennial International exhibition. MADE UP will be an exploration of the power of the artistic imagination and will involve galleries from across Liverpool as well as many new commissions in surprising places. At Tate Liverpool we will present new work ...

This summer Barbican Art Gallery showcases the work of Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf. This is the first time in the United Kingdom that an exhibition has been devoted to this highly influential duo. Over the past 15 years Viktor & Rolf have taken the fashion world by storm with their particular blend of cool irony and surreal beauty. The House of Viktor & Rolf presents each of the designer’s signature pieces from 1992 to now, shown in a specially commissioned and characteristically ...

Francis Bacon was one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and this unmissable exhibition will bring together the best and most important paintings from throughout his turbulent life. Bacon is world famous for his twisted images of people and animals, often splattered with paint, displaying raw emotion and considered to be some of the most powerful images in art. The human body is a recurring theme in Francis Bacon’s work and these paintings will be displayed just as they were ...