Art Expo India 2009 is a step forward in the highly fulfilling and rewarding journey that involves serious investors, collectors and genuine lovers of art.

In its 10th anniversary year, Underbelly joins forces with Southbank Cent re to bring its iconic Edinburgh Festival venue, E4 Udderbel ly, to London’s famous riverside arts centre. Arguably the most identifiable venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Udderbelly is a 406-capacity touring performance venue in the shape of a 20 metre high x 27 metre long, upside-down purple cow.

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London presents a play by Tim Crouch and Hannah Ringham running from Friday, 8 May to Tuesday 16 June, at 7pm and 9pm.

The Museum of Arts and Design today announced the establishment of its new Design and Innovation Gallery, which will explore emerging trends in design through a series of short?term exhibitions guest?curated by leading voices in the field.

The El Paseo Art Walk continues in January, moving to the second Thursday due to a conflict with the holidays. Make plans to visit the famed shopping avenue of El Paseo on Thursday, January 8 from 5 to 9 pm to experience over 16 galleries with special events, receptions and so much more.

The National Galleries of Scotland and the National Gallery, London are working together with the Duke of Sutherland to secure the long-term future of the Bridgewater loan of Old Master paintings.

The National Gallery of Canada’s exhibition The 1930’s: The Making of the “The New Man” is drawing international and national accolades for its uniqueness and diversity. A North American exclusive, the exhibition The 1930s brings together over 200 extraordinary works that explore the seminal link between art and biology.

An exhibition that draws connections between two very different artists who make the immediate world around them the focus of their work, and will be on view through September 28, 2008.

This is the first time a Brett Whiteley exhibition has toured to regional Australia since the Brett Whiteley Studio opened in 1995. The exhibition includes 20 Whiteley works and traces the artist’s life and career from his earliest painting Self Portrait at Sixteen, 1955 to just a few months before his death with Port Douglas, Far North Queensland 1992.

Kate Beynon’s new paintings feature female characters surrounded and supported by owls, dragons, bats, orchids, flags and emblems – charms and talismans that draw out aspects of the figures’ identities and have the power to influence their futures.

The Simon Sainsbury Bequest to the nation goes on public display for the first time through 5 October 2008 at Tate Britain. All eighteen paintings from the Bequest are brought together before entering the permanent collection displays at the National Gallery and Tate.

Memorial Art Gallery, New York will exhibit Tradition In Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs, on view from October 5, 2008 to January 4, 2009.