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Dying for the Vote: Militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison at Bourne Hall Museum
May 6, 2013 - 8:00pmIn June 1913 Emily Wilding Davison's cause of death was recorded as "misadventure". Bourne Hall Museum revisits the events of the day in a celebration of her life and the cause for which she died.
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Leicester's New Walk Museum and Art Gallery welcomes Magic Worlds from the V&A
May 6, 2013 - 8:00pmFrom Alice in Wonderland and the characters of JRR Tolkein to Harry Potter and Abracadabra, the new exhibition at New Walk is a fairytale one.
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Richard Nott paintings join St Michael's Church for Artists' Open Houses in Brighton
May 6, 2013 - 8:00pmHaving originally worked for the famous Valentino fashion house in Rome, artist Richard Nott's show in one of Britain's finest churches is a survey of exotic dresses.
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Lighthouse presents James Bridle's Under the Shadow of the Drone for the Brighton Festival
May 2, 2013 - 8:00pmIn a commission for this month's Brighton Festival, artist James Bridle has created a scale representation of the reaper drones which cast deadly shadows over modern war.
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The Last Stand: Marc Wilson's wartime defences at Royal Armouries Fort Nelson
May 2, 2013 - 8:00pmMarc Wilson's project to photograph World War II defences has resulted in a thought-provoking series of ethereal "documentary landscapes" at Fort Nelson.
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Museums at Night 2013: Julia Vogl on bottles and social sculpture in Newcastle
May 2, 2013 - 8:00pmJulia Vogl is planning to fill the Discovery Museum's 19th century home with a kaleidoscope of public messages for Museums at Night. The social sculptor tells us more.
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Moment to Moment: Randy Klein's sculpture at St Giles' Cathedral Edinburgh
May 2, 2013 - 8:00pmA touring collection of 100 sculptures by Randy Klein visits St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, creating a large-scale piece about spirituality in modern times.
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RAF Museum begins task of rescuing the last German Dornier bomber from the seabed
May 2, 2013 - 8:00pmThe RAF Museum has begun the delicate process of lifting the last remaining World War Two Luftwaffe Dornier bomber from its 1940 resting place beneath the Kent sea.
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RAF Museum begins task of rescuing the last German Dornier bomber from the seabed
May 2, 2013 - 8:00pmThe RAF Museum has begun the delicate process of lifting the last remaining World War Two Luftwaffe Dornier bomber from its 1940 resting place beneath the Kent sea.
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Artist's Statement: Dominic from Luton talks work in New Order: British Art Today
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmThe suburban artist accounts for his performance photos selected for the Saatchi Gallery's current survey of contemporary art in the UK.
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Call for return of Ai Weiwei's seeds results in surprise 10-pound arrival
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmCurators at current exhibition Couriers of Taste, at Danson House in Bexleyheath, have received a ten-pound sack of seeds, collected by an avid Ai Weiwei fan at one of his previous exhibitions in New York.
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Seeds of Change: Artist and Arnolfini create A Floating Ballast Seed Garden in Bristol
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmAn ongoing investigation by Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves into ballast flora in the port cities of Europe has birthed an inimitable botanical landmark in Bristol.
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United Micro Kingdoms (UmK): A Design Fiction at the Design Museum in London
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmThe new show at the Design Museum offers a selection of interrogative perspectives on a fictional United Kingdom and the imaginary infrastructure of emerging technologies.
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Artist's Statement: Mark Leckey on The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Turner Prize-winning artist selects two complementary items from his curatorial show at Nottingham Contemporary.
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Artist's Statement: Alejandro Guijarro discusses work in New Order: British Art Today
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmThe London-based artist has been touring university physics departments for a photography project based on blackboards.
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Forensic reconstruction of Richard III's head to appear at Yorkshire Museum this summer
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmIn what may be the most accurate representation of the King yet, a head based on scans carried out by Leicester Royal Infirmary will form a cranial summer centrepiece in York.
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Mark Leckey animates Dumb Things with artful curation at Nottingham Contemporary
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmThe East Midlands gallery is next stop for touring show of artworks and artefacts mixing technology and myth. Mark Sheerin takes a look.
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Saatchi Gallery goes after the national zeitgeist in New Order: British Art Today
May 1, 2013 - 8:00pmThree years after Newspeak, the West London gallery is back with another selection of UK based talent. Mark Sheerin pays it a visit.
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The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for May 2013
April 30, 2013 - 8:00pmFrom a Bank Holiday party in Cambridge to the inspiring Museums at Night and the opening of the £27 million Mary Rose Museum, here are our history highlights this month.
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Our Time in Ice reflects on a fragile spring at Brighton's ONCA Gallery
April 30, 2013 - 8:00pmThe second exhibition at a gallery attuned to climate concerns is a strikingly simple and multi-disciplinary one, says Mary Stevens.
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