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Sculptor Nick Evans fills Tramway, Glasgow with ostensible evidence of alien civilisation

Tue, 2013-03-05 01:00
The local artist with a growing reputation for biomorphism has been earning rave reviews from the Scottish press in a major show at Tramway.
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Clifton Suspension Bridge invites public to help with new Heritage and Learning Centre

Tue, 2013-03-05 01:00
Organisers at the Bristol landmark want the public to inform a series of exhibitions at its new visitor centre and volunteer to help with the accompanying activities programme.
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Wordsworth Museum adds Thomas Girton and Francis Towne works to collection

Tue, 2013-03-05 01:00
Ancient paintings of the Lake District - including one by Thomas Girton, who JMW Turner considered a future master before his premature death - now live in Grasmere.
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Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock sounds out Scarborough

Tue, 2013-03-05 01:00
A rock and roll soundtrack and more than 100 snaps of the Beatles and friends as the V&A's touring show of Harry Hammond's iconic shots visits Scarborough Art Gallery.
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Six snappers take photo journey to Coast of Copeland at Whitehaven's Beacon

Tue, 2013-03-05 01:00
In an exhibition they reckon might be their last, a photographic history group who have called The Beacon home for 18 years survey 45 miles of "devastatingly beautiful" coast.
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Gertrude Jekyll: Landscape Gardener and Craftswoman to open at Woking's Lightbox

Mon, 2013-03-04 01:00
A major summer exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking will take a look at the myriad talents of Gertrude Jekyll - a prolific pioneer of garden design more than a century ago.
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Sisterhood and After: UK Women's Liberation Movement for International Women’s Day

Mon, 2013-03-04 01:00
The first oral history archive of the UK Women's Liberation Movement has been launched in celebration of International Women's Day.
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National Museum Wales to bid for Bronze Age treasure axes in Pembrokeshire

Mon, 2013-03-04 01:00
The Deputy Coroner has given treasure status to a pair of 4,000-year-old weapons found by a pair of metal detectorists in a Pembrokeshire field two years ago.
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National Army Museum gifted death-defying Indian Mutiny redcoat

Mon, 2013-03-04 01:00
The National Army Museum has been gifted a rare blood stained tunic worn by a British officer in a bloody gunfight during the Indian Mutiny of the 1850s.
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Birmingham to reveal new £1 million Metropolis: Reflections on the Modern City

Mon, 2013-03-04 01:00
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

Mon, 2013-03-04 01:00
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

Mon, 2013-03-04 01:00
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

Fri, 2013-03-01 01:00
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

Fri, 2013-03-01 01:00
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

Fri, 2013-03-01 01:00
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

Fri, 2013-03-01 01:00
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

Fri, 2013-03-01 01:00
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

Fri, 2013-03-01 01:00
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

Thu, 2013-02-28 01:00
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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