This autumn the Victoria and Albert Museum, in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, created a vivid and immersive journey through nearly 400 years of opera, exploring its passion, power and politics. The only exhibition ever to explore opera on a grand scale, it immerses visitors in some key moments of the history of European opera from its roots in Renaissance Italy to its present-day form, by focusing on seven operatic premieres in seven cities. It reveals how opera brings together multiple art forms to create a multi-sensory work of art, and show how social, political, artistic and economic factors interact with great moments in the history of opera to tell a story of Europe over hundreds of years. More than 300 extraordinary objects, including important international loans, are being shown alongside digital footage of compelling opera performances. Objects on display include Salvador Dali’s costume design for Peter Bro

The Turner Prize will be presented at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull for the first time, with an exhibition of work by this year’s shortlisted artists: Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi. The exhibition will run from 26 September 2017 to 7 January 2018, and will be a highlight of Hull UK City of Culture 2017. One of the most important art prizes in the world, the Turner Prize was established in 1984 and aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art. The winner of the Turner Prize 2017 will be announced on Tuesday 5 December 2017 at an award ceremony in Hull, broadcast live on the BBC, the broadcast partner for the prize. The exhibition features work by the four nominated artists (in alphabetical order): Hurvin Anderson was born in Birmingham in 1965. He studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Selected solo exhibitions incl

The Bucerius Kunst Forum presents from 23 September 2017 to 7 January 2018 the first large-scale exhibition devoted to the birth of the art market in the Golden Age of the Netherlands. Tracing the careers of artists such as Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen and many others, the exhibition explores how the transformation of Dutch society during the seventeenth century brought forth a new art market, with artworks tailored to its demands. Artists, art dealers and their workshops had to keep pace with the evolving market situation, leading to art prices ranging from just a few Dutch guilders to astronomical sums. The Birth of the Art Market: Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen and the Artists of the Dutch Golden Age is the first exhibition curated by Prof. Dr. Franz Wilhelm Kaiser in his new role as artistic director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum. Trading in art is a way of engaging in the debate about art’s status in society and

The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting a landmark exhibition of the Honorary Royal Academician, Jasper Johns. This is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to be held in the UK in 40 years. The exhibition comprises over 150 works including sculpture, drawings and prints, together with new work from the artist. Johns is recognised as one of the most significant and influential artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the exhibition spans over 60 years from his early career, right up to the present time, bringing together artworks that rarely travel from international private and public collections. The title of the exhibition comes from a statement by Johns in 2006: ‘One hopes for something resembling truth, some sense of life, even of grace, to flicker, at least, in the work.’ Widely known for his iconic images of flags, targets, numbers, maps and light bulbs, Johns has occupied