In collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Gallery of Canada opens an exhibition today devoted to the eight winners of the 2008 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (GGAVMA), which are organized by the Canada Council.

Edgar Degas's Dancers, Claude Monet's Towing a Boat, Honfleur and Mary Cassatt's Young Mother, Daughter and Baby are among the treasures in a second companion show that includes paintings and works on paper by Impressionist masters, as well as by artists of the period who influenced and were influenced by the Impressionist movement.

The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the UNDEREXPOSED arts program, part of the 4 The Record Initiative (4TR) created to highlight talent and achievement within the black British community and to bring their work to a wider audience.

Teachers, students, art historians, researchers, and all art enthusiasts in Canada and throughout the world can now visit CyberMuse, the on-line research and education tool of the National Gallery of Canada, via www.canadianart1930.gallery.ca to access new research. On-line access is now available to more than 8,000 digitally archived images and documents linked to the major exhibition Canadian Painting in the Thirties, which was first presented by the National Gallery Of Canada in 1975.

Aspiring artists will capture the flowering of Washington’s cherry trees at three Drawing from Cherry Blossoms workshops led by Corcoran College of Art + Design faculty members.

The V&A will open the new William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery on 24 May 2008. The gallery will display 3,500 jewels from the Victoria And Albert Museum's jewellery collection, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world.

Artist Martin Ball from Auckland has been awarded the Packing Room Prize in conjunction with the 2008 Archibald Prize for his portrait of Crowded House frontman, Neil Finn. Neil Finn is one of New Zealand's leading singer/songwriters.

Mr. Seamus Brennan, T.D., Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, has officially unveiled the National Gallery of Ireland's most recent gift; Johann Zoffany 'Portrait of George Fitzgerald with his sons George and Charles'.

The final masterpiece of composer Luigi Nono, Prometeo, receives its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall on 9 and 10 May. This most extraordinary work involves multiple orchestras, two conductors, narrators and groups of instrumental and vocal soloists placed around the Royal Festival Hall auditorium, whilst a live electronic studio, at the heart of the performing space, distributes the music as islands of sound in real time.

A new work by one of today's leading composers, Thomas Ades, and young Israeli video artist Tal Rosner, will be given its world premiere in the Royal Festival Hall on 28 April, at 7.30pm as the climax to the ETHER festival, Southbank Centre's annual festival of art and technology.

The ARC programme for 2008 begins with a real event: the total takeover of its entire space by GELaTIN and all the extravagant, zany and bohemian individuals, gelatin calls on to contribute to its works, running through April 20, 2008.

TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945 presents a fascinating look at the artistic movement that transformed photography from a tool of documentation to one of the most exciting means of visual expression of the twentieth century.