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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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Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901. The Courtauld captures the magic of Picasso's pivotal year
A stunning show of key works at the Courtauld Gallery offers a tightly focussed and compelling view of Picasso's breakthrough year in 1901.
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Cartographies of Life and Death: John Snow and Disease Mapping in Soho
Smelly cartography by Bompas and Parr and a cocktail bar based around the water pump cholera was once pinpointed to in a multi-site show honouring a medical pioneer.
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York's medieval might recalled as Capital of the North opens at the Yorkshire Museum
Find out why York was one of the most powerful cities in England for 1,000 years in a new exhibition illuminated by films, cartoons and colour-coded trails.
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Rosa Barba twins Manchester with Margate in Subject to Constant Change at Cornerhouse
Smoke, lighting, 60 years' of dust and a team of arts enthusiasts helped artist Rosa Barba create a film looking at the forgotten architecture of north and south.
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What Happened to Helen Mirren? Artist Dawn Mellor returns actress to Southend
Taking the role of delusional fan, Dawn Mellor's paintings of Helen Mirren in various powerful roles also mark the acclaimed artist's first major regional solo show.
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What Remains: Geraldo de Barros at The Photographers' Gallery in London
A series of works by the late Brazilian modernist pioneer include shots completed when he was confined to a wheelchair following a series of strokes.
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Alleksandras Macijauskas and Rimaldas Viksraitis: Borderliners at Ffotogallery
In a strange, frightening and darkly humorous show in Cardiff, two of Lithuania's most popular photographers capture the decline of village life.
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Richard III: Leicester's Search for a King attracts record crowds to Medieval Guildhall
Following the discovery of Richard III's body, an exhibition looking at the evidence and methods behind the search - including a recreation of his skull - is proving popular.
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Kai-Oi Jay Yung: Amongst Dark Trees, A Clearing at the Grundy Art Gallery
On a journey of visitor-triggered installations taking on fear, anxiety and hope, artist Kao-Oi Jay Yung examines our psychological and physiological identities.
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Dark Fantastic lights up West Bromwich with a bouquet at The Public
Suspended from the ceiling in a shimmering five-foot decorative vase, a digital bunch of flowers has become a central installation at The Public in West Bromwich.
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Lee Miller's family prepares to publish thousands of her unseen photographs online
More than 3,000 photographs taken by famed American photographer Lee Miller will be published online in a new image library created by the Lee Miller Archive.
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"Really beautiful" Micrarium fills old office with tiny wonders at Grant Museum of Zoology
A couple of thousand slides form one of the most unusual exhibitions ever made at the University College London museum, including beetles, squids, fleas and whales.
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We Made it – Nuts, Bolts, Gadgets and Gizmos gallery opens at Thinktank Birmingham
Cars, cows, aluminium and mobile phones feature among 1,200 objects and 20 interactive exhibits in a new gallery charting Birmingham's productive past.
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Elena Fortescue-Brickdale: the last Pre-Raphaelite at Watts Gallery
The Watts Gallery in Surrey is hosting an intriguing exhibition of works by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, one of the last great exponents of the Pre-Raphaelite style of painting.
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Mysterious master sculptor Paul de Monchaux's Fixing Memory at Piper Gallery
Best known for his major commissions in public spaces, former Camberwell Head of Sculpture Paul de Monchaux has his first gallery exhibition with a solo show in London.
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