Arts for the year ahead ranging from Churchill's paintings to a National Gallery exhibition of Zurbarán's, Womad (The World of Music Arts and Dance) in Glasgow for the first time and a new film from the Chronicles of Narnia.

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), leading artist of seventeenth-century Spain, painted life-size depictions of saints and staggeringly large altarpieces that are celebrated for their directness and deep emotional power. This summer sees his first-ever UK monographic exhibition, with almost 50 paintings including St Francis of Assisi borrowed from the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, Agnus Dei from the Prado in Madrid, and The Crucifixion from the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition will explore his take on the saints, portrayed as figures from his own world, as well as the extraordinarily inventive paintings he produced for the religious orders of his day. One room will focus on his depiction of the Immaculate Conception, an ideal fundamental to the religious life of Seville where he spent much of his career.

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