The most comprehensive exhibition for over thirty years of the leading eighteenth-century artist, William Hogarth (1697-1764), opens at Tate Britain on 7 February 2007. No other artist's work has come to define a period of British history as powerfully and enduringly as that of Hogarth. He was greatly admired and collected on the international stage, influencing a broad range of artists across the centuries, including Greuze, Goya, the Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler and Hockney.

Jake and Dinos Chapman are among the most significant and best-known contemporary British artists working today. They have created a major new work especially for Tate Britain called When Humans Walked the Earth. This special display opens from 30 January and coincides with their mid-career exhibition Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People, on display at Tate Liverpool until 4 March 2007.

The Art Fund, the UK's leading art charity, and Tate, are launching a public appeal to help save Turner's The Blue Rigi for the nation. £2.45 million needs to be raised by 20 March towards a total price of £4.95 million to prevent the work entering a private collection abroad. The charity also announced it was pledging £500,000, one of The Art Fund's largest ever grants, towards the fundraising campaign.

The exhibition of Turner's very greatest watercolour paintings, JMW Turner: Three Rigis, opened at Tate Britain today. The three exceptional works, The Blue Rigi, The Dark Rigi and The Red Rigi, are united for the first time ever. The paintings have been brought together by Tate as part of a campaign to raise £4.95 million to save The Blue Rigi from going abroad. The free exhibition is open until 20 March 2007.