CHICHESTER EXHIBITION Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War Pallant House Gallery North Pallant November 8-February15 The Spanish civil war (1936-39) was one of the most significant European conflicts of the 20th century and this exhibition focuses on the impact of the conflict on British visual artists. On show are works by John Armstrong, Felicia Browne, Edward Burra, Wyndham Lewis, FE McWilliam and Henry Moore, alongside international artists such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. Recommended. pallant.org.uk

LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION Transmitting Andy Warhol Tate Liverpool Albert Dock November 7-February 8 This exhibition explores how the artist Andy Warhol embraced the mass mediums of his time — publishing, film, music, and broadcast to transmit his ideas and imagery to a mass audience, challenging notions of high and low culture along with private and mass experience. “Art should be for everyone,” Warhol proclaimed, and you can judge for yourself whether he had a point in a show which includes his 1962 paintings Marilyn Diptych, Dance Diagram and Do-it-Yourself 1962 paintings alongside Warhol TV commercials, fashion illustrations, concert posters, his TV show and celebrity magazine Interview. Three Brillo Soap Pad Boxes (1964-68) and Campbell’s Soup I (1968) are also on show. tate.org.uk/visit/tate-liverpool 

LONDON MUSIC 100 Years of British Song Queen Elizabeth Hall South Bank, SE1 Presented by Ian Shaw as part of the London Jazz Festival, this 100-year journey through British song takes in the end of music hall, two world wars and the torch and swing of the ‘40s and ‘50s. Also featured are folk, beat, the British musical, pop and Brit soul, glam, urban, protest and contemporary works. They’ll be performed by a multi-generational team of singers and musicians in a programme which aims to culturally and politically mirror 10 decades of popular song tradition. southbankcentre.co.uk

MANCHESTER THEATRE Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Royal Exchange Theatre St Ann’s Square Until November 29 Written on the eve of the cultural and civil rights revolutions in the US, Tennessee Williams’s 1958 play Cat On a Hot Tin Roof is regarded as his greatest. Fueled by drinking, desire and deceit. It tells the story of Maggie the Cat and her husband Brick returning to his home of the night of the patriarch Big Daddy’s 65th birthday. The evening spirals into disaster as the family scramble to secure their futures and renegotiate their relationships. Incendiary stuff. royalexchange.co.uk