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Art Fund gift helps Pallant House Gallery acquire Paul Nash treasures
The Chichester gallery will put wood engravings, etchings, photographs, collages and correspondence, gathered by one of the artist's closest friends, on public display.
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Cornish lord Sir James Tillie found in chair burial after 300 years at Pentillie Castle
Excavators believed they have found Sir James Tillie's body, buried in his best clothes alongside books, wine and his pipe 300 years ago, in a hidden vault.
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Transatlantic realist painter Sylvia Sleigh brings female gaze to Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool serves up a first UK retrospective of an overlooked Welsh painter with their exhibition covering more than five decades in the life and work of Sylvia Sleigh.
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Last Chance to See: Lisa Cradduck's Blue Plague at WestLane South in Bermondsey
Calling the Conservative influence a "bubonic miasma", printmaker Lisa Cradduck is creating a linocut in progress alongside open workshops at a Bermondsey space.
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Richard Wentworth's Black Maria aims to magnetise King's Cross Crossing
Recalling the scaffolding of the London throughfare's industrial past, a new sculptural installation at King's Cross aims to provide a central point and a new view for audiences.
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Tate Liverpool celebrates the early 70s with Glam: The Performance of Style
David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol are among the many artists who show there was more to glam than music at Tate Liverpool.
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Curator's Choice: Graham Peet on Richard Billingham and Black Country Legends
Former Turner Prize nominee Richard Billingham returns to West Bromwich with a film of his family and a series of small, processed photographs.
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Organic matter and sumptuous contrasts as Coastal Gallery sees Colour and Light
Six artists combine painting, printmaking, photography and ceramics in the new exhibition at Lymington's independent gallery.
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David Breuer-Weil: Project 4 heads into The Vaults beneath London's Waterloo Station
In 1989 monumental sculptor David Breuer-Weil decided he would paint many of his site specific commissions for a series of 70 disorientating canvasses.
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John Flaxman: Plastered at University College London Art Museum
Victorian death masks and small-scale angels feature in a new show of works from the plaster pioneer, coinciding with the reopening of the gallery dedicated to him.
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Murillo and Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship at Dulwich Picture Gallery
A gallery has been transformed for a show symbolising the relationship between the Spanish painter, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and his patron, Don Justino de Neve.
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BBC and Public Catalogue Foundation project Your Paintings gems onto buildings
Exeter Cathedral, Northern Ireland's Donegal Square West and venues in Scotland and Wales are among the buildings to act as canvasses for rarely-seen artworks.
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Mark Wallinger marks 150th anniversary of London Underground with labyrinths
The artist says he hopes to reflect an "individual yet universal experience" which is close to his heart after creating a unique artwork for each of the Underground stations.
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Oldham Stories: Popular demand creates Encounters with our Collections
Banners, chips, pungent chemist's, owls, watercolours and an inspiring natural history collection as Gallery Oldham adds a permanent display to its impressive temporary programme.
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Extinction: Not the end of the World? asks Natural History Museum
A Great Auk, a Dodo and an Irish Elk are part of the Natural History Museum's new display. And one of the tiniest specimens on show proves it's not all doom and gloom.
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High fashion and innovative art: Man Ray Portraits at London's National Gallery
Major museum displays of Man Ray's ubiquitous art are few and far between. A new exhibition in London features dozens of works appearing in the UK for the first time.
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Review: Light Show at London's Hayward Gallery
Mesmerising, beguiling, hypnotic and occasionally downright confusing, the Hayward's new show features photogenic installations and one-way mirrors.
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Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind at the British Museum
An absorbing aesthetic journey awaits visitors to the British Museum, which brings the art of the hunter gatherers together in a groundbreaking show of artworks made in the Ice Age.
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Curator's Choice: Tony Robinson on the television, his career and snooker in full colour
Actor and broadcaster Tony Robinson explains why television is as good as it ever was, and how the advances of the small screen have paralleled his life.
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Elizabeth Shaw, Fry's and Turkish Delight in Chocolate show at Bristol's M Shed
Unwrap the business of chocolate making during the past 250 years in a new show in Bristol inviting visitors to follow the entire chocolate making process.
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