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Wowie Bowie: The V&A does blockbuster with David Bowie is...
The V&A's David Bowie is...spine tingling stuff says Richard Moss, as he takes a trip back to the seventies and the days of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
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Murder in the Library: An A-Z of Crime Fiction goes from Christie to Pelé at British Library
Coinciding with the printed re-emergence of the revolver-holding, cigarette-smoking early female detective Mrs Paschal, the library looks at a litany of crimes and capers.
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Rocket Artists and University of Brighton aim to build on Paralympics at Royal Festival Hall
More than 150 artists with learning disabilities, working with non-disabled collaborators, have contributed to an exhibition featuring 30 international arts groups.
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Humphrey Spender's London Photographs at Firstsite Colchester
The works of revered photographer Humphrey Spender, known for capturing social upheaval including mass anti-poverty marches during the 1930s, make for snapshots of everyday life in London more than 70 years ago.
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Graham Sutherland and the Romantic Landscape at Oriel Parc in Pembrokeshire
Graham Sutherland's watercolours, sketches and oil paintings are currently being displayed at Oriel Parc Gallery, in the beautiful Pembrokeshire setting that inspired them.
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Curator's Choice: Professor Jenny Clack chooses an extraordinary sea-bream bone
The Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Museum of Zoology explains why a bone from the collection is one of the most extraordinary she's ever seen.
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Design Museum calls on public to create new piece of furniture for summer exhibition
Members of the public have been given an open brief to create a new piece of furniture, with the winning design from a public vote becoming part of a major display.
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Kenneth Anger brings Hollywood home museum to Sprüth Magers in London
Photographs, letters, posters and other memorabilia recall the illustrious director's long and influential career in short film.
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Redesigning Fashion - How to Change the World in Style at Stockport's Hat Works
The Hat Works Museum harks back to the make-do-and-mend days of the 1940s for a stylish look at resourceful fashion, featuring designs by acclaimed milliners and stylists.
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Wideyed revisit mill observers with Therblig at New Art Exchange as part of Format photography festival
Observing a tissue mill in Northumberland, a pair of artists have used photography and film to reimagine some of the first techniques used to observe the inner workings of factories a century ago.
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Artist's Statement: Eduardo Stupia on Reinventing Landscape at Rosenfeld Porcini
The Argentine artist tells us about taking the "spiritual and intangible stuff" around the world, being inspired by landscapes and avoiding the constraints of self-awareness.
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Curator's Choice: Gill Scott on bone saws and amputation knives at the Great North Museum
The gruesome details of Barber Surgeon instruments from the current Tales of Antiquarian Adventure exhibition in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Duty Calls: Yorkshire Country Houses launch linked exhibitions revealing wartime role
A series of fascinating linked exhibitions exploring the impact of war on the country house and its communities goes on show throughout Yorkshire in 2013 and 2014.
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Historic Duxford: Imperial War Museum Duxford tells the long story of an airfield
Imperial War Museum Duxford is preparing to open its first major permanent exhibition since 2007 revealing the history of the airfield and the men and women who served there.
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Inspired by Nature: The Traditional Cosmetics of Korea at the Korean Cultural Centre
Cosmetics and beauty from thousands of years ago to the present in a display at the London centre which also gives visitors the chance to make their own treatments.
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Bollywood Icons: 100 years of Indian Cinema at the National Media Museum
Some of the best-known names in Bollywood feature in a celebration of the centenary of Indian cinema in the City of Film.
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Curator's Choice: Professor Andrew Balmford on the near-mystical Great Bittern reed bird
As part of a guest series from the University of Cambridge, take a look at a reed-dwelling bird which is thriving again after an uncertain few years.
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Studio Sittings: Photographing Royal Academicians at Leighton House Museum
The new show the Holland Park home of former Royal Academy President Lord Leighton compares studio portraits of Victorian artists with shots of their more recent peers.
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Huge Aston Martin archive to reveal letters to James Bond in two-year exhibition
A vast archive, assembled during 35 years of collecting by the late historian for Aston Martin, will go on display for the first time at the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust.
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Barocci: a forgotten Renaissance painter at the National Gallery in London
Four centuries after his death, an exhibition dedicated to Italian Renaissance painter Federico Barocci is giving the British public the chance to appreciate this little-known artist.
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