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BY Culture24
28.10.2015
Museums at Night October 2015: Horrible atrocities in a Fright Night for adults at Butser Ancient Farm
Short, moonlit shocks are in store at the archaeologically-important Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire this Museums at Night. Expect the unexpected Butser was originally set up as a site for...
BY Culture24
27.10.2015
Jimi Hendrix's London flat to open to public in new museum at home where Handel lived 240 years earlier
Handel and Hendrix London to open flats where visionary musicians lived and worked 240 years apart Jimi Hendrix at 23 Brook Street (1969) © Barrie Wentzell Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom has been carefully...
BY Culture24
27.10.2015
Rediscovered genius: David Jones at Pallant House and Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
Exhibition: David Jones – Vision and Memory, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until February 23 2016; The Animals of David Jones, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, until February 1 2016 David...
BY Culture24
26.10.2015
Newly-appointed poet writes public address with Oswald, museum's cat-in-residence
Oswald Clingan-Smith, cat descendant of Ancient Egyptians, writes poem at Stirling Smith Art Gallery Oswald Clingan-Smith is a curatorial cat © Courtesy Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum A...
BY Culture24
26.10.2015
Ice Age bear skulls and elephant tusks: See some of the amazing artefacts found in a Yorkshire Dales cave
Male brown bear skulls, circular Romano-British brooches and more from a Yorkshire cave are about to be digitised © DigVentures One afternoon in 1837, just before the accession of the young Queen...
BY Culture24
21.10.2015
Museums at Night 2015: Spooks and shocks from around the UK
The first ever Halloween Museums at Night is almost here. Where will you go? Click on the links to find out more about our spooky highlights Death in the Archives at the National Maritime Museum ©...
BY Culture24
21.10.2015
A magical glimpse into the Tudor imagination: Lost library of John Dee to be revealed
Treasured books from the lost Library of Tudor polymath John Dee will be revealed in a special exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians Museum in January 2016 From the Private Library of John...
BY EUROPEANA
20.10.2015
Have a piece of cake!
Together with Europeana Food and Drink we are happy to present our newest, and probably the sweetest, virtual exhibition: Cake? Cake! Let us take you on a journey through history exploring...
BY Culture24
20.10.2015
In Pictures: The three photographers selected for the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015
Three artists have been selected for the inaugural Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Each received £5,000 and technical/curatorial support to produce new work for the Award exhibition. Explore their work...
BY Culture24
20.10.2015
"It says so much about early 1970s England": Val Williams on the first Daniel Meadows retrospective
Curator’s Choice: Val Williams, curator of the first retrospective of the career of photographer Daniel Meadows, on Brighton, Sussex. May 1974 Brighton, Sussex. May 1974 © Daniel Meadows “This...
BY Culture24
20.10.2015
Sam Bakewell wins British Ceramics Biennial AWARD with "pseudo shaman's hut" full of mysterious objects
Sam Bakewell wins the British Ceramics Biennial AWARD for a clay grotto filled with mysterious ceramic objects in cages Sam Bakewell, here neither © Sylvain Deleu, all rights reserved 2014 Sam...
BY Culture24
19.10.2015
Simon Roberts' Pierdom exhibition: "Invites the imagination to project past merriments"
Using a 4x5 plate camera in homage to the tradition of Victorian archives, artist Simon Roberts finds the unique personality of our piers Simon Roberts, Cleethorpes. From Pierdom © Simon Roberts,...
BY Culture24
16.10.2015
Flying Scotsman 2016 exhibitions and inaugural run details released by National Railway Museum
The National Railway Museum in York has announced further details of the return of Flying Scotsman in 2016 Flying Scotsman departing Scarborough Station on the return journey to York August 5 2004 ©...
BY Culture24
16.10.2015
Unity Spencer's doll delights - and deepens the mystery of Stanley Spencer painting
Unity Spencer's doll delights at a literary festival and leads to a bit of detective work at the Stanley Spencer Gallery Unity Spencer, Golden Slumbers Sonia Rose and Stanley Spencer's Hilda, Unity...
Museums
15.10.2015
Tullie House Museum wins Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award
It has Tudor racing bells, Georgian ball gowns, Suffragette photographs, over 100,000 insects, 16th century bandits’ armour and one of the oldest violins in the world. It welcomes toddlers for...
BY Culture24
14.10.2015
Object of the Week: The Japanese Katsura tree in the quarry gardens of Northumberland's Belsay Hall
This week we bring you an unusual, sugary-smelling Japanese tree making a brief appearance this autumn Jo Harrigan, the Head Gardener at Belsay Hall, Gardens and Castle, admires the burnt sugar...
BY Culture24
14.10.2015
Multiplied Art Fair Director and Christie's Senior Prints Specialist Murray Macaulay on collecting contemporary editions
Ahead of this week's Multiplied Art Fair, Culture24 talks to its Director Murray Macaulay about contemporary editions © Courtesy Christie's What is the market like for editions? With the inflation...
BY Culture24
14.10.2015
"Almost unbelievable" return of stolen Roman head surprises staff at Vindolanda
"Almost unbelievable" return of Roman head ends four-month search in Northumberland Education Officer Lauren Wilkinson and organisers at Vindolanda made a delightful discovery after losing their...
BY Culture24
16.10.2015
Win painter Oda Jaune's new book If You Close Your Eyes
Win a copy of the new book by 'surrealist' Oda Jaune Untitled (2012). Oil on canvas © Oda Jaune If You Close Your Eyes, the new book from controversial, prize-winning surrealist painter Oda Jaune,...
BY EUROPEANA
13.10.2015
