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Artist's Statement: Tahnee Lonsdale on her new show at Redchurch Street Gallery
June 5, 2013 - 8:00pmPainter Tahnee Lonsdale on the endless searching and surrounding fears which have partly led to her new London show, Waiting for Entry into that Holy Place.
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Trees, swings and bouncy castles: University of Brighton Graduate Show aims for greatness
June 5, 2013 - 8:00pmAiming to follow in the footsteps of alumni such as Julien Macdonald and Rachel Whiteread, this year's Brighton graduates deploy swings, trees and bouncy castles.
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First Time Out: From baubles to masks, museums and galleries swap ten treats
June 5, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Royal Shakespeare Company and the Natural History Museum are among ten venues swapping and re-interpreting weird and wonderful exhibits this summer.
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Science Museum Group outlines "real threat" to three science museums in the north
June 5, 2013 - 8:00pmAhead of an expected 10% budget cut in this month's spending review, leaders say a £6 million annual deficit could cause one of the north's popular science museums to close.
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BE OPEN launch new design iniatives at Sounding Space Symposium, London
June 4, 2013 - 8:00pmGlobal philanthopists have announced BE OPEN Inside the Academy, a showcase of student projects based in a purpose-built listening chamber.
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William Morris Gallery enjoys "breathtaking" Art Fund Museum of Year win
June 4, 2013 - 8:00pmPutting the new-look gallery at the centre of regeneration plans for Waltham Forest, planners say they will make a "real, tangible difference" with the £100,000 flagship museum prize.
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Hidden intaglio provides vital clues in story of The Cheapside Hoard: London's Lost Jewels
June 4, 2013 - 8:00pmA gemstone bearing the heraldic badge of a Viscount has allowed curators to put dates to artefacts ahead of a major exhibition at the Museum of London.
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William Morris Gallery wins Art Fund Museum of the Year Award 2013
June 4, 2013 - 8:00pmJust a few years ago the William Morris Gallery faced an uncertain future and possible closure. Now the Walthamstow former home of William Morris has won the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year.
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Picturing Derry unites photography from The Troubles in City of Culture 2013 show
June 3, 2013 - 8:00pmCovering the turbulent period between the late 1960s and late 1980s in Derry-Londonderry, a major display of shots by Irish and international photographers in the City of Culture has intense local significance.
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The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for June 2013
June 3, 2013 - 8:00pmDeath in the Potteries, swimwear in Glasgow, Mary Queen of Scots in Edinburgh and the reopening of a £5 million Georgian mansion in Bath. Here are our history picks.
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Saloua Raouda Choucair builds reputation with show of modular sculpture at Tate
June 3, 2013 - 8:00pmTate Modern hosts an exhibition by the Lebanese artist who has been called the first true abstract, modern artist in the Arab world.
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Polish Art Now intrigues for six days at the Saatchi
June 3, 2013 - 8:00pmA brief display by a Warsaw-based talent house should entice gallery-goers to the Saatchi sharpish, says Ruth Hazard.
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Sculptor Nicholas Rena and weaver Stella Benjamin in Harmony of the Year in Cambridge
June 3, 2013 - 8:00pmStriking ceramics and colourful textile weaving from a pair of internationally acclaimed artists in a new exhibition at Cambridge's Lynne Strover Gallery.
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Log boats from "edge of a lost world" discovered in prehistoric Peterborough
June 3, 2013 - 8:00pmEight log boats, said to be in "an incredible state of preservation", have been moved to a special refrigeration unit as part of a major archaeological investigation.
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Patrick Caulfield and Gary Hume paired up for complementary shows at Tate Britain
June 2, 2013 - 8:00pmSemi-abstract and at times poppy, artists from different generations should find new audiences in a brace of tightly curated exhibitions.
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The Culture24/7: Your June 2013 Science and Nature highlights
June 2, 2013 - 8:00pmFrom Bournemouth to Inverness, there are five impressive science festivals to choose from this month, as well as a couple of excellent new exhibitions.
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RAF Museum bid to save Luftwaffe Dornier Do 17 bomber postponed
June 2, 2013 - 8:00pmBad weather has hindered the daring bid to save the only surviving World War II Luftwaffe Dornier bomber from the seabed off the coast of Kent.
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Richard White and Ali Pretty team up with Wiltshire Museum to Walk the White Horses
May 30, 2013 - 8:00pmArtists Ali Pretty and Richard White work with the Wiltshire Museum and Devizes Outdoor Celebratory Arts to produce a unique experience of Wiltshire’s chalk hillsides.
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Dame Vivienne Westwood and YOYOU Mentoring's Poetry Project at Keats House
May 30, 2013 - 8:00pm"Buy less, choose well, make it last". Founded by Dame Vivienne Westwood, new project The Climate Revolution encourages action against climate change.
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New museum: The Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
May 30, 2013 - 8:00pmWe take a look inside the £35 million Mary Rose Museum in Portsmoutn - a replica of one of the greatest ships in Henry VIII's "sea army".
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