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Whitechapel Gallery Launches Artists’ Film International Programme

25/04/2020

Language is the common theme for this year's AFI programme, with every artist's film using language to intensify place. ...

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Earth Day Prompts First Ever Global Stealth Street Art Event

25/04/2020

For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, more than 500 artists bring passion and protest to the first ever global stealth street art event....

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UK Science Museum Group Building Coronavirus Collection

25/04/2020

Curators are amassing material and considering how to “collect important objects on behalf of the nation as a record of the medical, scientific and cultural responses to the outbreak”....

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Looted Benin Art Treasures to Go Online

17/04/2020

The project will unite pieces from the former kingdom of Benin that were spread around the world after being looted by British troops....

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Oldest Ever Piece of String Made by Neanderthals

10/04/2020

The discovery suggests that Neanderthals knew how to make cords, and raises the question of whether modern humans learned some of their skills from Neanderthals....

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The Other Art Fair Presents Online Studios

09/04/2020

In partnership with online art gallery Saatchi Art, Online Studios will roll out city-specific features in line with the original spring fair schedule....

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Bagri Foundation Launch Open Call for Asian Creatives

07/04/2020

At Home in the World is inspired by Vietnamese philosopher and Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s collection of autobiographical stories of the same name....

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Archaeologists Discover Trove of Silver Coins Hidden in Slovakian Renaissance Church

03/04/2020

The significant historical find was made after construction workers discovered ruins underneath the 19th-century church they were renovating....

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Sotheby’s Announce Sale of Rare DC Comics from Private Collection of Music Producer Ian Levine

01/04/2020

The selection comprises over 40,000 comics released between 1935 – 2014, featuring iconic American comic book characters such as Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Batman. ...

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Scientists Turn Ancient Egyptian Pigment Into Vital New Biomedical Tool

31/03/2020

The pigment behaves as a fluorophore, a light-emitting material used to stain samples so they can be seen at clearer resolution under modern microscopes....

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Artist Releases Paintings Responding to the Coronavirus From Lockdown

25/03/2020

David Downes, a landscape painter who amplifies the sense of place and time through the lens of autism, is painting one piece a day throughout isolation....

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New Platform Allows Galleries to Create Virtual-Reality Exhibitions Using 3D-Scanning Technology

24/03/2020

Vortic offers galleries customisable virtual gallery spaces to show their art using virtual and augmented reality technology....

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NFTS Releases Key Findings of Graduate Impact Report

20/03/2020

The National Film and Television School has evolved to become a leading global institution, developing some of Britain and the world’s top creative talent....

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Genesis P-Orridge Dies After Battle With Leukemia

17/03/2020

The pioneering cult hero, who adopted a third gender, is known for reinventing he/r own body as a work of art....

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Acclaimed American Artist Dale Chihuly Returns to London

13/03/2020

Sims Reed Gallery present an exhibition of fine art prints and original works on paper by the internationally renowned American artist Dale Chihuly....

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Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium

06/03/2020

Major exhibition explores the changing historical and aesthetic terms of artistic engagement with mediumship from the 19th century to present day....

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LOVE, ART, LOSS: The Wives of Stanley Spencer

04/03/2020

Show seeks to shed light on the effect Spencer’s two wives had on his artistic practice while also examining the love triangle that existed between them....

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Major John Hitchens Retrospective

03/03/2020

Aspects of Landscape features more than 50 works spanning nearly six decades, charting Hitchens' evolution from a descriptive to unique form of abstract painting. ...

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Google VR Exhibit Invites Public Into Chauvet Cave

28/02/2020

The Dawn of Art opens this significant site of usually inaccessible 36,000-year-old prehistoric art to the public via immersive tech....

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Debut Solo Show by Fresco Painter Ella Walker

25/02/2020

Cosmati Floor and Wax Fruit draws on a collected archive of varied imagery, and explores notions of stage, spectacle, desire and design....

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Original Cinema Posters Worth Over £200,000 to Be Auctioned

24/02/2020

Prop Store, one of the world’s leading film and TV entertainment memorabilia companies, will hold its fifth cinema poster live auction this March....

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Rome Unveils Shrine Dedicated to City’s Mythical Founder

21/02/2020

The newly found monument honouring Romulus includes a 2,600-year-old sarcophagus....

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Leading Auctioneer Simon de Pury Opens New Gallery Space

19/02/2020

For its inaugural show, Newlands House Gallery will stage an exhibition of original photographs by Helmut Newton....

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Fags, Birds and a Couple of Guns

18/02/2020

A Nancy Fouts retrospective will feature work spanning several decades, including some of her best loved sculptures and framed works alongside some unseen pieces....

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Picasso’s Ceramics Make London Commercial Debut

17/02/2020

Reflective of Picasso's unmistakable style, the ceramics provide a unique key into one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists....

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Auction in Aid of Australian Bushfire Includes Banksy and Shepard Fairey Works

14/02/2020

The Bushfire Relief Auction in Melbourne has been organised by collectors Sandra Powell and Andrew King and prices start at £200....

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New African Art Gallery Opens With Oluwole Omofemi Show

12/02/2020

Signature African Art, originally established in Lagos in 1992, will use its new London space to introduce a new generation of African artists to UK and European audiences....

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The Art of Banksy Comes to London

11/02/2020

The world’s largest touring exhibition of privately owned Banksy artworks opens on 23 April in South Kensington. ...

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Climate Activists Bring Trojan Horse to British Museum in BP Protest

07/02/2020

Activists from the theatrical protest group BP or not BP? dressed as warriors to protest against corporate sponsorship deal with oil firm....

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The Contemporary Human Condition

05/02/2020

JD Malat Gallery's group show attempts to underline the importance of international dialogue, focussing in particular on the artistic response to changing global conditions and political events....

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