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Museums at Night tonight! Paupers and performance inside Southwell's Workhouse
May 15, 2013 - 8:00pmCostumed drama will be at its most atmospheric in the 19th century Workhouse at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, where actors are waiting to tell stories within former schoolrooms, bedrooms, dormitories and kitchens.
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Egyptian make-up, Arabic dancing, beetles and Walking Wikis in Bristolian Museums at Night
May 15, 2013 - 8:00pmGavin Turk's Connect10 magic carpets might steal the show, but Bristol Museum and Art Gallery has revealed an exotic line-up of music, dancing, art and history.
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Museums at Night - Thursday: Ten tasters for Museums at Night events tonight
May 15, 2013 - 8:00pmMuseums at Night kicks off tonight with hundreds of events in museums, galleries and heritage sites. Here are ten tasters to whet your appetite for Thursday May 16.
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Winners of the Museums and Heritage Excellence Awards 2013 announced
May 15, 2013 - 8:00pmThe winners of the 2013 Museums and Heritage Excellence Awards were announced last night in London at a gala dinner hosted by comedian Sue Perkins.
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Museums at Night is here: the annual festival of after-hours cultural openings begins
May 15, 2013 - 8:00pmWhat will you do? Museums at Night, Culture24's festival of after-hours openings in the UK's cultural venues, begins. There are 582 events taking place at 411 venues right across the UK.
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Museums at Night 2013: Gloves are off for Scarborough Art Gallery
May 15, 2013 - 8:00pmCurators and artists will face each other off in a ring as part of Museums at Night in Scarborough, where poetry, photography exhibitions and more are also on the cards.
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Catlin Prize shortlist of nine makes for slick show in Londonewcastle Project Space
May 14, 2013 - 8:00pmThe dark cube-like Shoreditch gallery's new exhibition is putting the pick of recent graduates in their best light. Mark Sheerin takes a look.
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Lazarides and Robert Del Naja aka 3D present the art of Massive Attack in: Fire Sale
May 14, 2013 - 8:00pmShown together for the first time, a London retrospective looks at the artworks spawned by British trip-hop artists Massive Attack during the past two decades.
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Museums at Night 2013: An Evening with Simon Mayo and Itch at the Royal Institution
May 14, 2013 - 8:00pmThe author, broadcaster and film reviewer introduces his new book and presents a series of demos, workshops and activities for kids in London.
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Gasworks gallery presents Resolution 978 HD: An Exhibition by Model Court
May 14, 2013 - 8:00pmModel Court, a collective of visual and conceptual artists, provides a striking interrogation of the controversial use of technology in universal jurisdiction.
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Museums at Night 2013: Port Eliot at Night's music and monastic splendour in Saltash
May 14, 2013 - 8:00pmFire, candlelight, a choir performance and an enormous sculpture of an elephant as one of Cornwall's best-loved historic sites celebrates Museums at Night in style.
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Ikon Youth Programme reviews Jane and Louise Wilson film piece at the Herbert
May 14, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Birmingham gallery sends teenage critics on an assignment to nearby Coventry for a show about an unfinished Stanley Kubrick movie.
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Museums at Night 2013: Harewood House ushers in Harewood at Twilight
May 14, 2013 - 8:00pmYorkshire's magical Harewood House will reveal a magnificent staircase, a major art display, insights into the life of a French master chef and more this Museums at Night.
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Museums at Night 2013: In the Company of the Curious: Steampunk at Dragon Hall
May 14, 2013 - 8:00pmAudience-inspired theatre, peepshows, Victorian dueling, music, sketches and gentlemen poets: Norwich's Dragon Hall has a brilliant Museums at Night lined up.
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Curator's Choice: Ciara Phipps on colourful court shoes at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
May 13, 2013 - 8:00pmFind out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.
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Museums at Night 2013: Andrew Lane's Lost Worlds at Barts Pathology Museum
May 13, 2013 - 8:00pmAndrew Lane, the author of the Young Sherlock Holmes series, is heading to the wondrous Bart's Pathology Museum for a special reading for Museums at Night.
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Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary unites Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and more at The Public
May 13, 2013 - 8:00pmVitality, diversity and humour are the aims for curator David Thorp in a British Council touring show which brings the likes of David Shrigley and Martin Creed to West Bromwich.
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Jake Chapman talks art, Hastings and the joys of "funny pessimism" ahead of Museums at Night
May 12, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Chapman Brothers' Museums at Night event at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings may have raised a few eyebrows, but as Jake Chapman explains, "no-one's going to get hurt..."
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Felice Varini performs trick of illusion in Across the Buildings at King's Cross
May 12, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Swiss artist's first major commission in the UK uses projected metallic shapes to create an illusion across buildings spanning 542 metres.
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Shadows of former King's College labs fill Somerset House Inigo Rooms in Plant Science
May 12, 2013 - 8:00pmAn installation art duo are carrying out a reclamation of the "oddly significant" artefacts from a doomed set of labs where leading scientists once worked in London.
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