Scotland's national art collections are to feature a show dedicated to a pop star for the first time when Annie Lennox will take centre stage.
The House of Annie Lennox, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG), will be curated by the Eurythmics singer and the V&A museum in London.
It will be a free exhibition and feature photographs, videos, films and costumes from the Aberdeen-born artist.
The touring show has already been shown at Aberdeen Art Gallery and will be placed on the ground floor of the SNPG from 23 March next year.
The gallery has also announced it will be displaying a major exhibition of portraits by Man Ray as well as a display of new works by the leading Scottish painter Ken Currie.
The Lennox exhibition will include material for her time in The Tourists and Eurythmics and her solo career, as well as some of the political causes she has backed.
Christopher Baker, director of the gallery, said: "Annie Lennox has constantly changed and adapted her image, which is very interesting to us as a portrait gallery because a lot of what we do is about the idea of identity.
"It is a very rich and interesting show about a very distinguished Scot, who is also a significant global figure in her own right, and we are delighted to have it. Along with the Man Ray and Currie exhibitions we think we have a very rich menu of exhibitions for next year."
The Man Ray portraits include images of Picasso, Dali and Ernest Hemingway and the show is billed as the first major museum retrospective of his photographic portraits. It features more than 100 works from his career in America and Paris, dating from 1916 to 1968.
From February there will also be an exhibition of Scottish comedians, from Sir Harry Lauder to Billy Connolly, called Tickling Jock: Comedy Greats.
It brings together images of 50 people including Lex McLean, John Laurie, Molly Weir, Rikki Fulton, Jack Milroy, Stanley Baxter, Johnny Beattie, Una Maclean and Ronnie Corbett.
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