Twinned with Shanghai, and home to the oldest Chinese community in the UK, Liverpool has always maintained an active dialogue with China. The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China (30 March - 10 June), the first major UK exhibition of contemporary art from China, brings to Liverpool art from one of the world's most dynamic countries at a time of unprecedented interest.

Turner's The Blue Rigi has been saved for the nation, thanks to an overwhelming public response to a fundraising appeal launched by The Art Fund and Tate in January, and a major grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) announced today.

The Tate08 Series goes from strength to strength in 2007 with an exhibition of work by Ellen Gallagher. Born in 1965, Ellen Gallagher is best known as a leading contemporary painter, although she has also created drawings, prints, sculptures and, in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne, a number of 16mm films.

Tate Liverpool will present a major retrospective exhibition of paintings by Peter Blake, the largest since his Tate Gallery exhibition in 1983. A highly influential and original artist, Blake is often described as the godfather of British Pop art. The Tate Liverpool exhibition will survey his rich and diverse oeuvre, presenting familiar works alongside other rarely-seen ones.

The Tate Liverpool exhibition Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People will constitute the most comprehensive overview of the Chapmans' work to date. As part of this survey, the exhibition will include the first and only complete showing of the newly finished project Painting for Pleasure and Profit: A piece of site-specific performance based body art in oil, canvas and wood (dimensions variable) 2006.