March, Visual art

Portraits from the century of Scotland's great transformation, 1750–1850, including Nasmyth's deliberately and stylishly unfinished picture of Robert Burns, Danloux's all-action portrait of Admiral Duncan keeping a cool head in the middle of a sea battle, Raeburn's picture of Walter Scott as king of the hill, before…

Iconic works by artists including Bacon, Constable, Hirst, Hockney, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Lowry, Millais, Spencer, Stubbs and Whiteread, representing 500 years of British art, spread out over 20 refurbished rooms.

An exhibition looking at the way the Jacobites presented themselves in portraiture.

Contemporary portrait and landscape paintings created by the group in a variety of media, exploring the theme of urban versus rural.

A major exhibition of portraits of Scotland's funny men and women. The subjects are a long and illustrious list, with music hall stars and TV comedy heroes from Sir Stanley Baxter, Rikki Fulton and Una Mclean to Ivor Cutler, Ronnie Corbett and the Big Yin himself. There are 'On Air' booths for you to listen to clips of…

A unique collection of miniature Coronation chairs, including gold and silver replicas, jewellery charms, music boxes and money boxes.

Photographs and drawings from the archives of one of the key figures in the field of historic painting collections and interiors.

Works by artists including Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Constable, Blake, Rossetti, Spencer, Freud and David Hockney, shedding light on the central role of drawing in portraiture, landscape, romanticism and minimalism.

Photography, film, installations and iconic memorabilia telling the story of the development of popular music in Britain.

Too few Scots are aware that Scotland has its own Enlightenment, and a hugely influential one at that, with a world-class philosopher in David Hume, an equally heavy-hitting economist in Adam Smith, an outstanding painter in Allan Ramsay, plus less well-known intellectual giants like Hutcheson, Ferguson, Reid and others.

A permanent display of a selection of items tracing the history of contemporary design, as well as the country's national identity, including works by Marcel Breuer, Jasper Morrison, Jill Ritblat and Erno Goldfinger.

More than a hundred works in various media exploring the effects of influential artworks on the ideas of modern artists. Featuring works by Robert Morris, Helio Oiticica, Barbara Kruger and Rasheed Araeen.

Exhibition of key designs that have shaped the modern world.

A sculptural installation near the entrance to the gallery, comprising of one glacial boulder balanced on top of another, exploring themes of equilibrium, stability, construction and destruction.

Sculpture responding to contemporary global conflict.

Thomas Rowlandson was one of the leading caricaturists of the Georgian period, and if his work is more mellow and less pointed than that of his ferocious contemporary James Gillray, it's still no less capable of pointing up folly, gluttony and excess. Rowlandson was also a skilled artist in a realistic vein, and this…

Interactive installations and displays exploring the past, present and future of human life.

Large-scaled oil paintings which are reflections of everyday life situations, observed, filtered and reassembled in a collage like way.

Works in a variety of media based on Raymond Williams' seminal book of the same name, studying the English language and culture.

Paintings, prints and sculptures created by the collective, alongside selected works from the Derek Hill collection. Celebrating 100 years of the Group's existence.

A look at the influence of the Far East on collectors over the last 200 years, highlighting some of the Oriental treasures in Aberdeen Art Gallery's own collection.

Programme includes: Martin Creed: Face to face with Bach for organ (World premiere) .: Bach: works to be announced Martin Creed is one of the UK's most well known and versatile artists. As a visual artist, he won The Turner Prize in 2001 for his piece Work No.227 - the lights going on and off, and on the morning…

Drawings, watercolours and paintings from throughout the artist's career, from collections around the world.

The first public sculpture by the celebrated Swiss artists to be commissioned in the UK comprises two large granite boulders seemingly balanced one on top of the other.

A weekly story reading event, brought to you by Simon Oldfield and Elizabeth Day. Each time, a new line-up of authors, artists, actors and cultural commentators read aloud from contemporary and classic literature.