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Artist's Statement: Mark Leckey on The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things

Thu, 2013-05-02 01:00
The Turner Prize-winning artist selects two complementary items from his curatorial show at Nottingham Contemporary.
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Artist's Statement: Alejandro Guijarro discusses work in New Order: British Art Today

Thu, 2013-05-02 01:00
The London-based artist has been touring university physics departments for a photography project based on blackboards.
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Forensic reconstruction of Richard III's head to appear at Yorkshire Museum this summer

Thu, 2013-05-02 01:00
In what may be the most accurate representation of the King yet, a head based on scans carried out by Leicester Royal Infirmary will form a cranial summer centrepiece in York.
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Mark Leckey animates Dumb Things with artful curation at Nottingham Contemporary

Thu, 2013-05-02 01:00
The East Midlands gallery is next stop for touring show of artworks and artefacts mixing technology and myth. Mark Sheerin takes a look.
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Saatchi Gallery goes after the national zeitgeist in New Order: British Art Today

Thu, 2013-05-02 01:00
Three years after Newspeak, the West London gallery is back with another selection of UK based talent. Mark Sheerin pays it a visit.
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The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for May 2013

Wed, 2013-05-01 01:00
From a Bank Holiday party in Cambridge to the inspiring Museums at Night and the opening of the £27 million Mary Rose Museum, here are our history highlights this month.
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Our Time in Ice reflects on a fragile spring at Brighton's ONCA Gallery

Wed, 2013-05-01 01:00
The second exhibition at a gallery attuned to climate concerns is a strikingly simple and multi-disciplinary one, says Mary Stevens.
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Culture24/7: Science and Nature highlights for May 2013

Wed, 2013-05-01 01:00
From the Thames and Kew Gardens to Greenland and journeys through the Earth, May is an inspiring month in Science and Nature. Here are a few exhibitions we've spotted.
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Culture24/7: recommended art exhibitions from around the UK in May 2013

Tue, 2013-04-30 01:00
Our monthly round-up of shows includes photography in Wales, painting in Northern Ireland and Uncommon Ground in Southampton.
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Diffusion: Inaugural Cardiff International Festival of Photography makes for great May

Tue, 2013-04-30 01:00
Cardiff's inaugural photography festival is also notable for international vantage points ranging from industrial Portugal to rural Norway.
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Science Museum announces details of huge £15.6 million Information Age gallery

Tue, 2013-04-30 01:00
Charting communications from the 19th century to the internet age, organisers say the largest exhibition space at London's Science Museum is a "landmark project".
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The eggs and bin bags of Gavin Turk in The Years at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

Tue, 2013-04-30 01:00
Surveying two decades of provocative works by the Connect10 artist, Gavin Turk's latest exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts features pop art portrayals and bulging busts.
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Imperial War Museum to reopen to public with Spies, drones and photography displays

Mon, 2013-04-29 01:00
The Imperial War Museum has announced its programme for its partial reopening at the end of July, returning after a closure of more than six-months.
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Martin Creed talks art, music and psychotherapy ahead of Museums at Night at the Freud Museum

Mon, 2013-04-29 01:00
Ahead of his Museums at Night appearance at the Freud Museum in London, Martin Creed reveals to Culture24's Mark Sheerin why he is big fan of Freud.
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Jets turned off after three decades as Mary Rose Museum prepares to dazzle Portsmouth

Mon, 2013-04-29 01:00
The continuous spray which has protected the timbers of the Mary Rose for three decades has been turned off ahead of a five-year drying-out process for the famous ship.
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Read all About it! Wrongdoing in Spain and England in the Long Nineteenth Century

Mon, 2013-04-29 01:00
Taken from Anglo-Spanish historical resources, Cambridge University Library's new show features bandits, murderers, inmates and a gossip-hungry public.
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Museums at Night 2013: Win an exclusive evening tour of the Faber and Faber Archive

Mon, 2013-04-29 01:00
The popular Museums at Night competition to win an exclusive tour of the Faber Archive in London returns for May 2013. Submit your entry here...
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"Impossibly excited" Watershed organisers launch search for Magician in Residence

Mon, 2013-04-29 01:00
Watershed is inviting applications in a search for a magician, artist, illusionist or designer to take part in a two-month project at the Bristol venue.
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Legends of King Arthur written in forgotten crypt at Oxford Castle, say researchers

Mon, 2013-04-29 01:00
Experts say the man behind the 12th century History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth, wrote the famous book in the former chapel where he was a canon.
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Mariele Neudecker – Heterotopias and Other Domestic Landscapes at the Brighton Festival

Mon, 2013-04-29 01:00
Mariele Neudecker's three-storey show at Brighton's Regency Town House could represent the German installation artist's most ambitious work to date, says Mary Stevens.
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