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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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Brooklands Museum prepares a spectacular 1940s party for Museums at Night

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
There's a spectacular night of 1940s entertainment in store at Brooklands Museum in Surrey for Museums at Night with World War II home front fashion, dancing and music.
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Curator's Choice: Will Watts introduces the Scarborough Speeton plesiosaur

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
Scarborough Museums' Will Watts recalls a bitterly cold, ten-day excavation on a North Yorkshire beach which plugged a gap of around 60 million years.
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rAndom International line up new interactive artwork for big party at the Horniman Museum

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
Art collective rAndom International are heading to the Horniman Museum in London for a Museums at Night blockbuster featuring gin, music, film and cutting-edge art.
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Spiders for lunch and Nordic Food Labs as the Wellcome Collection plays part in Pestival

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
An infestation of art and events at the Wellcome Collection, where Insects au Gratin and Insects vs Humans are on the menu as part of the phobia-exploring Pestival.
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British Army Lynx helicopter flies in to Imperial War Museum Duxford

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
A British Army helicopter, seen by every soldier taking part in the campaigns during the past 35 years and only retired last year, is now awaiting visitors to Duxford.
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Museums at Night 2013: Find a museum sleepover event

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
From a night in a medieval Royal bedchamber to a Doctor Who over-nighter in a Gothic library, Culture24's Museums at Night festival has all kinds of sleepover events to choose from. Find yourself one here.
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Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum: Why is it so popular?

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
Ruth Hazard manages to get herself into the British Museum's hugely popular blockbuster Pompeii exhibition to find out exactly what all the fuss is about.
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Joan Miró and John Hoyland works join National Museum Cardiff in dozen-artwork gift

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
Four lithographs by surrealist Joan Miró are among a set of artworks worth more than £4 million going on display in Cardiff as part of a gift from collectors Eric and Jean Cass.
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Turner Prize 2013: Critics and commentators on Shrigley, Prouvost, Yiadom-Boakye and Sehgal

Fri, 2013-04-26 01:00
We take a look at the critical and public reaction to this year's Turner Prize shortlist.
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