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The Drawings of Edward Burne-Jones: A Pre-Raphaelite Master at Lady Lever Gallery
June 12, 2013 - 8:00pmMyth-based paintings and towering watercolours brought out from storage for the first time in decades feature in an exquisite show of the artist and designer's work.
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Chagall: Modern Master at Tate Liverpool
June 11, 2013 - 8:00pmChagall strove to recreate reality, interpreting the world through allegory and iconography. This selection of his earlier paintings fuses the spiritual and magic with the angular forms of cubist representation, transforming the socio-political landscape of 20th century Russia and Western Europe into a visual fairytale.
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Artists respond to Benjamin Britten centenary at Aldeburgh Festival
June 11, 2013 - 8:00pmCerith Wyn Evans and Maggi Hambling are among 16 artists responding to the centenary of composer Benjamin Britten's birth in Suffolk. We take a look at some of them.
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Horniman Museum to send south London sounds over Twitter on Dawn Chorus Walk
June 11, 2013 - 8:00pmForest Hill's finest museum is calling on the public to join a dawn walk later this month, capturing the finest examples of local birdsong before broadcasting them to the world.
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Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Gertler, Carrington, Bomberg: A Crisis of Brilliance in Dulwich
June 11, 2013 - 8:00pmA Paul Nash painting hidden from public view for decades features in a war-covering exhibition devoted to the early 20th century prodigies of the Slade School.
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Curator's Choice: The raciness, modesty and nudity of bygone British bathing beauties
June 11, 2013 - 8:00pmKaren Snowden, of Scarborough Museums Trust, explains why bathing costumes have sparked fashion trends and controversy across the centuries.
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Asthall Manor's seductive onform sculpture show brings stone to London's Crypt Gallery
June 10, 2013 - 8:00pmFormed as a biennial in 2002, the sixth edition of a playful sculpture show from the Cotswold arrives at an atmospheric London crypt with work by 19 artists.
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"Supremely important" Stradivarius show reveals the secrets at the Ashmolean in Oxford
June 10, 2013 - 8:00pmMade by the Italian craftsman during the late 17th and early 18th century, an alluring new exhibition features 20 of the finest string instruments ever made.
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RAF Museum's delight as World War II Dornier 17 bomber is rescued
June 10, 2013 - 8:00pmThe German bomber at the centre of the RAF Museum's delicate, frequently-thwarted underwater excavation has been raised with its wings and engines intact off the coast of Kent.
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A home for history: Sneak preview of Brighton and Hove's new £19 million Keep archive
June 9, 2013 - 8:00pmTwo years after construction work began, archivists have been given the keys to an impressive new community resource in Sussex. Duncan Andrews takes a look.
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First Time Out: Ancient dishes, Chinese puzzles, bone guillotine and the earliest lightbulb
June 9, 2013 - 8:00pmIn the second part of our series on the exhibit swap going on between ten venues, we get the inside track on amazing artefacts including the earliest lamp.
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First World War Centenary Partnership of national and international partners tops 1,000
June 9, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Imperial War Museum-led network of organisations marking the centenary of the First World War between 2014 and 2018 has reached more than 1,000 members.
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Government reveals detailed plans to mark 100 years since beginning of First World War in 2014
June 9, 2013 - 8:00pmEducational battlefield visits for schoolchildren, a series of candlelit vigils marking the outbreak of war in 1914 and funding for local community projects will be at the centre of the government's commemoration of the First World War.
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New Coastal Culture Trail in Sussex links Towner, Jerwood and De La Warr Pavilion
June 9, 2013 - 8:00pmThree of the best galleries on the south coast have teamed up for the Coastal Culture Trail, linking Eastbourne, Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea.
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RAF Museum hopeful as Dornier 17 World War II excavation is narrowly foiled by winds
June 9, 2013 - 8:00pmArchaeologists say they came "within 40 minutes" of raising the German plane on the Kent seabed on Sunday, and remain hopeful of completing the lift within 24 hours.
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Review: Sou Fujimoto's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
June 7, 2013 - 8:00pmDesigned by the Japanese-born rising star of design, this year's extraordinary Serpentine Pavilion is somewhere between a nest and a cave, says Ruth Hazard.
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Polly Morgan, Tracey Emin and Billy Childish join Vauxhall Car Boot Fair 2013
June 6, 2013 - 8:00pmEver-presents Sir Peter Blake and Gavin Turk return and celebrity bingo and pass the parcel aim to please as the ultimate car boot fair returns for a tenth year.
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Briony Marshall creates Life Forming DNA sculpture in residency at Pangolin London
June 6, 2013 - 8:00pmMarking the 60th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, a scientist-turned-sculptor has created a two-metre high artwork as part of an artist-in-residence programme.
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New Visions showcases regional talent with open show at Bristol's Grant Bradley Gallery
June 6, 2013 - 8:00pmChosen from an open submission process, 50 emerging and established artists are taking part in The Grant Bradley Gallery's annual exhibition.
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Magnus Gjoen – Break Glass for a New Beginning at artrepublic Soho
June 6, 2013 - 8:00pmDescribing his works as "salvation for a godless generation", former Vivienne Westwood designer Magnus Gjoen's new exhibition in London adds punk sensibilities to traditional art.
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