The National Portrait Gallery, London is exhibiting photographs from the John Kobal Foundation; "Glamour of the Gods" it's a celebration of Hollywood portraits from the industry's "Golden Age". The period of the exhibition covers the 1920's to 1960's and displays portraits of great icons from Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Marylin Munroe, James Dean, and Clark Gable.

Authors; Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith of the new biography “Van Gogh: The Life”  say that Van Gogh didn’t kill himself and that it was likely he was accidentally shot by two young boys he knew who they claim had “a malfunctioning gun”.

24^th September 2011 – 29^th January 2012 Manchester Art Gallery

£8 (£6 concessions) FREE Entry for under 18s and Manchester Art Gallery Friends

From 24^th September 2011 Manchester Art Gallery will be displaying one of the first major exhibitions from the work of Ford Madox Brown. This is the first major exhibition of his work since 1964.

Plans have been made to turn the old Tetley's Bitter brewery in Leeds into a new and modern art gallery. The gallery will hopefully be spread over two floors in the old brewery and will host exhibitions by some of the regions most contemporary artists.

An exhibition of Rothko's abstract paintings is being displayed at the Tate Modern.

International dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, 26, has been captured on canvas at the National Portrait Gallery. American-Iranian born artist Darvish Fakhr depicted Khan performing nine 'rasa' or emotions central to the traditional Khatak dance.

Artwork depicting an artist slashing a canvas has won the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize worth £25,000.

A huge and eagerly awaited exhibition of modern art has opened in the Grand Palais in Paris. Over 60 museums around the world have loaned works by Picasso and canvas works by other artists admired by him.

A London artist has created a striking new series of canvases featuring the image of troubled singer Amy Winehouse.

A group of young artists is preparing its latest exhibition at the Hannah Barry Gallery in Peckham, South London. This is Optimism: The Art of Our Time aims to spread happiness and optimism in these otherwise gloomy times.