Tate today announced the forthcoming highlights of its 2018 programme across all four galleries which include exhibitions of work by ground-breaking figures in painting, performance, textiles, film and photography. A retrospective of the Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones and a major show of figurative painting by, among others, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R.B. Kitaj and Paula Rego, will be presented at Tate Britain. Joining Picasso at Tate Modern will be the work of two pioneering women: leading performance and video artist Joan Jonas, and one of the world’s most important exponents of textiles in art, Anni Albers. Two further giants of the 20th century will go on display at Tate Liverpool as part of the gallery’s 30th anniversary celebrations: Egon Schiele and Fernand Léger. In St Ives, the newly-opened spaces will be filled with work by Patrick Heron and a group show of women artists explored through the lens of the life
