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BY Culture24
08.02.2015
Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to play free gig as part of exhibition at London's White Cube gallery
Free performance to showcase Sonic Youth founder's commission for Sinfonietta Click on the picture to launch [View at source] [View at source] ...
BY Culture24
08.02.2015
Huge T-rex moved outside museum after sculptor's A1 lorry trip
Huge replica of Tyrannosaurus rex moved down A1 to Cambridge by Sculptor in lorry Click on the picture to launch [View at source] [View at source] ...
BY EUROPEANA
05.02.2015
Vintage fashion drawings from the Late 1930s
The years between 1900 and 1939 represent an extremely turbulent time in history with two World Wars and the rise of the suffrage movement. These unstable times clearly had an impact on...
Museums
05.02.2015
Daily art story: Salvador Dalí and the sacred moustache
“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed...
BY Culture24
05.02.2015
Aerial photos of WWII airfields join new crowdsourcing American Air Museum website
Aerial photos of WWII airfields join the growing resource that is the American Air Museum website Aerial photograph of Duxford airfield, looking south, the runway runs upper left; the control tower...
BY Culture24
05.02.2015
Commonality of Strangers finds no neat conclusions at Nottingham's New Art Exchange
Exhibition in one of Nottingham's most multicultural areas shows contentment, fear and few signs of a big society Click on the picture to launch [View at source] ...
BY Culture24
03.02.2015
Archaeology or anthropology? Artist to show bones from animals' point of view in residency
Artist to recreate reliquary boxes used by medieval Christians to hold bones of Saints Artist Jo Dacombe says she understands why people once used bones as amulets or charms © Jo Dacombe Jo Dacombe,...
BY Culture24
04.02.2015
Robin Hood's Major Oak of Sherwood Forest bids for European Tree of the Year
The Major Oak of Robin Hood fame is taking on the best of Europe for the European Tree of the Year title The Great Oak in Sherwood Forest in 2014 © Nottinghamshire County Council The major...
BY Culture24
02.02.2015
£30 million Rembrandt painting proved genuine by scientists is revealed to public at abbey
Gallery home of £30 million Rembrandt painting reflects "pretty amazing" eight-month investigation, say designers National Trust curators take a look at a surprise Rembrandt © National Trust / Steve...
BY Culture24
31.01.2015
Fines on banks provide £1 million boost for UK's last Second World War Landing Craft from D-Day
Museum of the Royal Navy expects £1 million from banking fines in project which saved D-Day veteran from sinking The bid to restore the LCT 7074 looks in line for a banking boost © NMRN The...
Museums
30.01.2015
Daily art story: Paul Klee - the Bauhaus and Düsseldorf period
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. -- Paul Klee Paul Klee was a Swiss-born painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gently humorous works are replete with...
Museums
23.06.2016
Top 15 most visited art museums in the world
According to the The Art Newspaper this is the list of 15 most visited art museums in the world. It’s based on the visitor numbers for the year 2013, with new version coming out in April each year....
Museums
30.01.2015
Daily art story: Édouard Manet - an admirer of Spanish art and culture
Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a dedicated student of earlier European painting and, most especially, an admirer of Spanish art and culture. The languorous pose and costume of the...
BY Culture24
29.01.2015
Rare surviving Arts and Crafts house to open to public for first time in Leicestershire
A rare survival of an Arts and Crafts family home opens to visitors for the first time in Leicestershire Approaching Stoneywell from the gravel path. © National Trust. James Dobson A rare surviving...
Museums
28.01.2015
Daily art story: Frida Kahlo and the bus accident
"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint." -- Frida Kahlo Considered one of Mexico's greatest artists, Frida Kahlo began painting after s he was severely injured in a bus...
BY Culture24
29.01.2015
Natural History Museum's Dippy the Diplodocus to make way for Blue Whale
The Diplodocus of the Natural History Museum is to make way for a Blue Whale skeleton [View at source] [View at source] How the...
Museums
27.01.2015
Daily art story: René Magritte and the famous pipe
"The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been...
BY Culture24
27.01.2015
National Museum of Computing enlists sound artist Matt Parker to create sound archive of computing
A new project at the National Museum of Computing aims to capture the sounds of 70 years of computing Matt Parker recording at an Icelandic data centre © Photo: Sébastien Dehesdin A permanent sound...
BY Culture24
27.01.2015
Mick Aston fans launch £20,000 fundraiser in bid for Channel 4 Time Team tribute dig
Time Team fans target £20,000 in latest call for Channel 4 commission © Courtesy G de la Bedoyere Campaigners attempting to persuade Channel 4 to organise a one-off episode of Time Team in honour of...
BY Culture24
27.01.2015
