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Birmingham to reveal new £1 million Metropolis: Reflections on the Modern City
Urban views from across the world, as well as Birmingham's own architecture, come to the city's Museum and Art Gallery in a major new collection of contemporary art.
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Richard T Walker – In Defiance of Being Here at Carroll / Fletcher
The San Francisco-based artist sings, beats drums and plays guitars against a backdrop of canyons, mountains, dust plains and neon tubes in an exhibition attuned to nature.
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The Culture24/7: Herculaneum History and Heritage for March 2013
The British Museum's blockbuster on Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum catches the eye this month. Tudors, teeth and International Women's Day also feature.
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Polly Morgan, David Blandy and international talent in Art13 at London Olympia
The inaugural edition of a new fair features 129 galleries - most of which are less than six years old - from dozens of countries across the world.
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The Culture24/7: Festivals and revolutions in Science and Nature for March 2013
Find out about aliens, cholera and sword-swallowing in London, or try Cambridge Science Festival, Space-craft in Glasgow and two exhibitions celebrating female pioneers.
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Wunderkammers and techno-animalism: Kinetica Art Fair returns to Ambika P3
More than 45 exhibitors from across the world are taking part in the fifth instalment of the robotic art fair this weekend, including kinetic jewellery and 1960s Ops pieces.
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Florence Nightingale Museum acquires Tardieu oils to honour role of nurses in World War One
The Florence Nightingale Museum has acquired a series of ten oil paintings by Victor Tardieu showing the WWI Red Cross field hospital run by Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland.
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Julian Opie's winter landscapes fuse technology and tradition at Alan Christea
The result of a winter walk in the French countryside, Julian Opie's landscapes create a modern pastoral panorama at Alan Christea Gallery.
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The Lightbox Woking hosts major retrospective of sculptor Elisabeth Frink
A major retrospective at The Lightbox in Woking examines the art of Elisabeth Frink, one of the most prominent names in 20th century British sculpture.
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Candice Breitz channels Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Irish debut at Derry's Void
Twenty-eight talking Meryl Streep heads and 23 Jack Nicholsons take part in installation artist Candice Breitz's show - one of the first in the UK City of Culture programme.
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Great North Museum celebrates 200 years of Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Celebrating 200 years of collecting and caring for the heritage of the north-east, a new exhibition takes a look at the work of Newcastle's Society of Antiquaries.
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Review: Tate Modern's Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective
Dots, desolate pilots and dissolving compositions in Tate Modern's major new exhibition featuring the pop artist Roy Lichtenstein whose works have become ubiquitous.
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Wordsworth Trust acquires two Romantic landscape paintings for Dove Cottage
Works by Francis Towne and Thomas Girtin depicting late 18th century views of Coniston and Windermere in the Lake District have been acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.
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Culture24/7: top art exhibitions around the UK for March 2013
Welcome to the monthly round up of promising shows nationwide, with offerings from Glasgow all the way to Eastbourne.
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Joan Jonas invites global audience to watch out in Draw Without Looking for Tate Live
Screened live on YouTube, pioneering performance artist Joan Jonas will instruct a group of protégés to draw, fold, make masks and follow the commands of a recorded poem in the latest instalment of the gallery's Performance Room series.
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Trailblazers celebrates Remarkable Women in Science at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
National Portrait Gallery images of pioneering female scientists from history visit a forthcoming show in Newcastle which aims to inspire the inventive minds of the future.
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Archaeological remake of 4,000-year-old boat faces "moment of truth" in Cornwall
An amazing project to reconstruct an ancient boat, carried out using Bronze Age axeheads and prehistoric techniques in Cornwall, could see the vessel launch this week.
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Fashion designer Peter Jensen to launch Hepworth-inspired collection in Wakefield
Designs full of holes will feature heavily when high art and fashion meet in catwalk style with a womanswear launch at The Hepworth Wakefield.
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Ceramicist Elaine Lim-Newton creates Switch City at Walsall Museum
Taking inspiration from a factory which used to be the largest source of employment in the town, artist Elaine Lim-Newton has created a sci-fi style electricity sculpture.
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Quentin Blake: Drawn by Hand at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum
Etchings, lithographs and works made to decorate maternity units feature alongside materials from the artist’s studio in a survey of Quentin Blake's dexterity.
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