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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Bompas and Parr go for Museums at Night
Fri, 2012-03-02 00:00
Those jelly scallywags Bompas and Parr are off to one of three venues for Museums at Night - and you get to pick which one you want it to be.
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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Jon McGregor goes for Museums at Night
Fri, 2012-03-02 00:00
Turner Contemporary in Margate, Discovery Point in Dundee and The Polar Museum in Cambridge bid for an evening with one of the country's finest authors.
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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Simon Roberts goes for Museums at Night
Fri, 2012-03-02 00:00
You get to vote which destination you want the renowned photographer to turn his lens on for a very special event as part of Museums at Night 2012.
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Dickens 2012: On the Trail of Charles Dickens
Tue, 2012-02-07 00:00
From the Historic Dockyard where his father worked as a Navy clerk to the Southwark Prison he once stayed in, follow our trail to follow the life of Charles Dickens.
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Her Maj: Cartoon Museum heralds Diamond Jubilee with 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen
Tue, 2012-02-07 00:00
Anita O'Brien, the curator of the new show at The Cartoon Museum in London, tells us about some star portraits from the minds of Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and their contemporaries, taken from the likes of Private Eye and the Guardian.
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Six decades of work by Yayoi Kusama disorient and delight at Tate Modern
Tue, 2012-02-07 00:00
The first major survey of the Japanese artist's work brings together painting, documentation, film, and installation in a show of two halves.
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Rachael Lomas looks at the Falklands in new show at Weston-super-Mare Helicopter Museum
Mon, 2012-02-06 00:00
Based on interviews with veterans, West Country artist Rachael Lomas uses drawings and imagery to re-interpret the Falklands conflict in Inscape Landscape.
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Stanley Spencer Gallery - 50th Anniversary Exhibition
Mon, 2012-02-06 00:00
A 99-year-old portrait of Stanley Spencer as a young man and a work from the Tate made as he faced his death feature at the gallery which was created as a tribute to the artist in the Berkshire town he described as "a kind of earthly paradise".
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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Bob & Roberta Smith goes for Museums at Night
Mon, 2012-02-06 00:00
One of Leeds Art Gallery, Bradford's Peace Museum or Eastbourne's Towner will be having plenty of fun this Museums at Night courtesy of the sign-loving artist. You choose...
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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Polly Morgan goes for Museums at Night
Mon, 2012-02-06 00:00
Taxidermist Polly Morgan has been in demand for Connect10, but the Victoria Gallery in Liverpool, Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol and the Yorkshire Museum now need your vote...
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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Susan Stockwell goes for Museums at Night
Mon, 2012-02-06 00:00
Susan Stockwell is a master creator, so it's no surprise to find Cambridge's Fitzwilliam and galleries in Wolverhampton and Hartlepool hankering to host her. Vote here...
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The Road is Wider than Long: Southampton enjoys Roland Penrose and British Surrealism
Mon, 2012-02-06 00:00
More than 100 works by the artist who introduced Surrealism to England accompany works by later practitioner Desmond Morris in a show at Southampton City Art Gallery.
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New Art Gallery revisits Jacob Epstein's Hyde Park Monstrosity
Mon, 2012-02-06 00:00
New Art Gallery Walsall is revisiting the controversy that surrounded Jacob Epstein's design for a memorial to WH Hudson in Hyde Park by taking a closer look at his sketches.
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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Martin Parr goes for Museums at Night
Fri, 2012-02-03 00:00
Three Museums chase Martin Parr for a Museums at Night Event - the Wedgewood in Stoke-on-Trent, the Haworth in Accrington and the People's History Museum in Manchester.
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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Terry O'Neill goes for Museums at Night
Fri, 2012-02-03 00:00
Famed photographer Terry O'Neill is destined to appear at the Museum of Soho or the Ragged School Museum in London this Museums at Night. Vote here.
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Simon Martin's Louis Ghost Chair installation premieres at The Holburne Museum in Bath
Fri, 2012-02-03 00:00
Installation artist Simon Martin's latest short film, Louis Ghost Chair, uses the original design of the Louis XV chair as a starting point before looking at its modern reinterpretations.
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South London Black Music Archive catalogues local musical tastes at Peckham Space
Fri, 2012-02-03 00:00
A gallery in South London is filing away vinyl, cassettes, t-shirts and other ephemera for a show with a long shelf life by Barby Asante.
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David Shrigley: Brain Activity at the Hayward Gallery
Fri, 2012-02-03 00:00
David Shrigley's intuitive work - showcased across 20 years in an exhibition featuring 68 pieces created specifically for the Hayward in London - makes for a refreshingly simple show amid the stuffed ostriches and toenail clippings, says Jennie Gillions.
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Get voting! Send a Connect10 contemporary artist to a museum or gallery of your choice
Thu, 2012-02-02 00:00
It's time to connect ten contemporary artists with ten museums, galleries and heritage sites as Culture24 launches the Connect10 Museums at Night public vote.
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Artist's Statement: Emily Young on The Metaphysics of Stone
Thu, 2012-02-02 00:00
The British sculptor talks about her contemplative and ambitious urban project in Berkeley Square, London.
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