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Oxford Painted Rooms to reopen for William Shakespeare's birthday
April 21, 2013 - 8:00pmHistory lovers at the Oxford Preservation Trust will reopen the rooms where Shakespeare once stayed for a rare series of public tours on the 449th anniversary of his birth.
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"Exciting and innovative" Environmental Art Festival Scotland to take place in August 2013
April 21, 2013 - 8:00pmAn environmental festival will launch this year as part of a £400,000 partnership between Creative Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway Council.
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A view through the Urban Eye of Charlie Phillips at Nottingham's New Art Exchange
April 18, 2013 - 8:00pmGrowing up in an at-times hostile West London, Charlie Phillips began portraying the Caribbean community of the 1950s and 1960s. His photos are hidden stories of life.
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Full range of Sir Tatton Sykes' architectural "works of art" to open to public in Yorkshire
April 18, 2013 - 8:00pmA set of churches along the Wolds of East and West Yorkshire, created by a baronet father-and-son more than a century ago, will open to the public for a weekend in May.
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Artist's Statement: Liz Charsley-Jory on her Canadian residency at Dulwich Picture Gallery
April 18, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Canadian Artist-in-Residence at Dulwich Picture Gallery discusses paddling a kayak down the Thames and giving North American inspiration to visitors.
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Chez Paulette on the Sunset Strip takes Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson to Plymouth Peninsula
April 17, 2013 - 8:00pmTransporting a star-studded Los Angeles coffee house from half a century ago to Devon, Peninsula Arts Gallery's new show owes everything to a great storyteller.
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Nick Harkaway and Neil Gaiman help literary trip These Pages Fall Like Ash in Bristol
April 17, 2013 - 8:00pmUsing a hand-crafted wooden book and their mobile phone, visitors to Bristol's Watershed will be able to follow stories through the city streets in a new literary adventure.
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PM Gallery devotes new exhibition Walk On to 25 artists inspired by walking
April 17, 2013 - 8:00pmFrancis Alÿs, Marina Abramovicz, Richard Long and Janet Cardiff are among the many arty ramblers to feature in a show worth hiking to.
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Enlightenment! Derbyshire Setting the Eighteenth Century Pace at Strutt's North Mill
April 17, 2013 - 8:00pmRepresenting a collaborative effort between curators in Belper, Buxton and Derby, a new exhibition features some inspiring examples from Derbyshire's creative history.
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Ten artists depict Margaret Thatcher in Thatcheristic show of Iron Lady portrayals
April 17, 2013 - 8:00pmFrom Iron Lady paintings held by Tate to specially-created new works, an exhibition at London's Gallery Different unites artists who grew up as "Thatcher's children".
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Bathing Beauties: brilliant beach huts at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre
April 16, 2013 - 8:00pmA far cry from simple sheds by the sea, the new exhibition at Aberystwyth Arts Centre features more than 100 innovative models for contemporary beach huts.
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Gert and Uwe Tobias exhibition brings craft and geometry to Whitechapel Gallery
April 16, 2013 - 8:00pmRomanian twins install woodcut prints and typewritten drawings in London space, with echoes of both constructivism and folk art.
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Birthplace Trust, galleries and museums to "bypass barriers" in Shakespeare Week 2014
April 16, 2013 - 8:00pmDozens of cultural institutions across the country will help the inaugural Shakespeare Week inspire millions of people when it launches in March 2014.
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Museums at Night 2013: Find an after-hours event in a historic house or property
April 16, 2013 - 8:00pmFind an exciting after-hours event at a historic house or property during Culture24's Museums at Night 2013 weekend of May 16-18.
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Abstract expressionism, feminism and Cow Tipping for Rebecca Ward at Ronchini Gallery
April 16, 2013 - 8:00pmYoung Texan-born artist Rebecca Ward's exhibition in central London is a departure from her signature style which is often bleach-based, says Sophie Furse.
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Artist's Statement: David Breuer-Weil on a sculpted Alien invasion in London
April 16, 2013 - 8:00pmFive times the size of an average person, David Breuer-Weil's monumental bronze sculpture, Alien, has just landed in a garden next to Victoria station. He tells us about it.
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Artist Susan Haire and composer Stephen Dydo cast Indra's Net at The Cello Factory
April 15, 2013 - 8:00pmA series of works which enlightened the Dalai Lama in the US, an installation of 600 lenses and a set of shattered DVDs feature in an audio-visual exhibition in Waterloo.
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"An eerie, magical feeling": Katie Paterson takes a history of life to Kettle's Yard
April 15, 2013 - 8:00pmHaving explored mammoth teeth, dragonfly wings and the bones of bears during a residency alongside scientists, Katie Paterson's new exhibition is a miniature history of life.
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Horniman Museum launches composer competition for 241-year-old harpsichord
April 15, 2013 - 8:00pmYoung composers are being given the chance to write a piece for the ancient Jacob Kirckman harpsichord as part of a display linking instruments from the Horniman and the V&A.
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Kathy Dalwood takes her Secret Society for a Sculptural Banquet at Pitzhanger Manor
April 14, 2013 - 8:00pmThe opulent surroundings of Sir John Soane’s dream house, Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, are about to host the strange sculptural busts of Kathy Dalwood for a decadent banquet.
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