Across blurry abstractions of Aberdeen's lights, the painter who won first prize in the city's Artists Annual Exhibition presents new works, a photo etching and a film.

The Ashmolean Museum has permanently acquired John Everett Millais' famous portrait of John Ruskin thanks to the Arts Council Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

An exhibition at the De Morgan Collection brings its guidng light - the inimitable Mrs Stirling, a remarkable Battersea resident, author and collector of Victorian art - to light.

Caspar David Friedrich, Albrecht Dürer, Photoshop and a revisited Tokyo childhood inspire Fiona Rae's exhibition at Towner - not to mention "ludicrous but gnomic" elements.

From Alice in Wonderland and the characters of JRR Tolkein to Harry Potter and Abracadabra, the new exhibition at New Walk is a fairytale one.

Surveying two decades of provocative works by the Connect10 artist, Gavin Turk's latest exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts features pop art portrayals and bulging busts.

David Shrigley, Laure Prouvost, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Tino Sehgal are the four artists who will compete for this year's Turner Prize.

George Bellows' paintings explored the dark and dismal corners of human existence to reveal the gritty reality that lay at the heart of 20th century American life, says Ruth Hazard.

Contemporary takes on Victorian collecting, ceramics and paintings from the ocean past and present feature in the new season at Touchstones in Rochdale.

Working in a multitude of highly crafty forms, some of the finest artists with roots in Somerset are given a rare showcase in the county in a hands-on new exhibition.

Graham Sutherland's watercolours, sketches and oil paintings are currently being displayed at Oriel Parc Gallery, in the beautiful Pembrokeshire setting that inspired them.

Works from a leading civic art collection appear with the Warwickshire gallery's permanent collection from Naples.

A portrait held at Durham's Bowes Museum for more than a century has been unmasked as a work by 17th century master Anthony van Dyck..

Ancient paintings of the Lake District - including one by Thomas Girton, who JMW Turner considered a future master before his premature death - now live in Grasmere.

Works by Francis Towne and Thomas Girtin depicting late 18th century views of Coniston and Windermere in the Lake District have been acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.

A stunning show of key works at the Courtauld Gallery offers a tightly focussed and compelling view of Picasso's breakthrough year in 1901.

As the first full-scale British Roy Lichtenstein retrospective in more than 20 years prepares to open at Tate Modern, the show's curators explain why he is a 20th century master.

An absorbing aesthetic journey awaits visitors to the British Museum, which brings the art of the hunter gatherers together in a groundbreaking show of artworks made in the Ice Age.

Paintings based on the imagery of post-Communist Poland and monumental sculptures made from mysterious materials feature in a compelling exhibition in Newcastle.

The amazing life of the daughter of Charles I and youngest sister of Charles II is remembered in a new exhibition in Edinburgh starring a beautiful full-length painting.

Experts have used X-rays and raking light to reveal the amazing truth behind a wrongly identified Lambeth Palace portrait, putting it on public display in London.

Voting is about to open to decide which artists head where for Culture24's Museums at Night competition, Connect10. Every vote will count. Find out which venues are taking part.

A scroll depicting all of "amusing and entertaining" everyday life in early 18th century Tokyo will be conserved and put on display if experts in Scotland succeed in a funding bid.

Culture24 editor Richard Moss begins his look at 2013's top exhibitions by exploring some of the best art exhibitions happening in London.

George Shaw's painting of the Tile Hill Estate in Coventry is at the centre of the Millennium Gallery's current Ruskin-inspired show. Curator Rowena Hamilton tells us about it.

The £8 million development of York Art Gallery as a centre for studio ceramics has been given a boost by a £3.5 million grant from National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Otto Dix, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread and Bruce Nauman are among the artists whose works will face off in an exhibition combining two great collections to diverse effect.

Pencil artists from across the world are being given the chance to take part in an exhibition which will tour the UK, with the best entry receiving an £8,750 reward.

Not seen in London since 1985, the West Coast artist now has shows at Riflemaker, Ben Uri (The London Jewish Museum of Art) and, in Liverpool, at the Black-E.

A rare UK showing of the L'Hourloupe series by French painter and father of l'art brut, the art of marginalised people, is not to be missed, says Mark Sheerin.

Curators Alex Farquharson and Leah Gordon assemble one of the biggest ever shows of vodou-inspired Haitian art. Mark Sheerin takes a look.

Ben Miller mixes with the dandies, catwalkers, photographers, artists and celebs at Frieze Art Fair, and finds "stackloads" to enjoy.

Scottish Colourist, still life and landscape painter Leslie Hunter's style changed dramatically over the course of his life. The City Art Centre in Edinburgh follows his life and work.

Artist and printmaker Mark Hearld and the Fry Art Gallery's Iris Weaver picked out a safari of animals, birds and other beasties for the Fry Menagerie exhibition.

This weekend is the last chance to see the landscape work of the post War English landscape painter Harold Mockford and his eerie landscapes of Sussex.

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford marks the 200th birthday of artist and writer Edward Lear with a collection of oils, watercolours, manuscripts and illustrated books spanning the length of his career.

The display of paintings and memorabillia at John Ruskin's former home in Cumbria suggests that his relationships with women were not as troubled as is often thought.

The disputed Turners featured on BBC's Fake or Fortune programme have gone on display at National Museum Wales for the first time since the 1960s.

The latest In Focus exhibition at Kettle's Yard focuses on a firm favourite of Jim Ede, the master of watercolour and light Winifred Nicholson.

Piers Secunda is a contemporary artist who uses paint as a sculptural material. He tells us about Shanghai firing ranges, Taliban bullet holes and casting shrapnel damage at the V&A.

The 10-day festival in Nottingham includes a packed programme of exhibitions and events which showcase the work of up and coming young artists from all around the world.

The former Turner prize nominee presents a collection of his historically-inspired work as part of a year-long celebration of art at the National Trust site in Warwickshire.

The paintings seduce while the drawings excite in a show of virtuoso technique and wide sphere of reference. Mark Sheerin takes a look.

A tenacious eight-month campaign by the Ashmolean Museum has ended in triumph, raising £7.83 million, turning Oxford into a leading centre for the study of Impressionist painting and allowing one of Manet's most important paintings to tour the nation.

Creation Fine Arts is mounting the first UK showing of a 41-piece Bulgarian collection by artists including Michail Petkov, Irma Vodeva and Todor Ovcharov.

A group of art students are asking the public to decide their next steps after transforming a Gateshead police station which had remained derelict for a decade.

A Lowry Summer brings together more than 200 paintings and drawings by the artist, including a complete private collection never shown in its entirety before.

Saatchi Online's mission to give up-and-coming artists a chance to find an audience - and flog some work - sees 100 curators select 1,000 emerging artists for an online exhibition.

Following a tough brief from curators Phillip Allen and Dan Coombs, abstract painters get figurative at London's Charlie Smith gallery.

Artist Graham Dean has visited Olympic and Paralympic training camps to make studies of athletes, then converted them into large-scale watercolours for display.