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Uncommon Ground: On the trail of Land Art in Britain 1966-1979
May 20, 2013 - 8:00pmAs a major new show of UK Land Art gets underway in Southampton, Culture24 maps out a georgraphical history of the movement.
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Glasgow's Riverside Museum wins European Museum of the Year 2013
May 20, 2013 - 8:00pmGlasgow's museum of transport and travel has beaten 40 rivals from across Europe to a prestigious international prize.
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Blooming Marvellous reveals master botanic illustrators at Natural History Museum Tring
May 20, 2013 - 8:00pmGreat botanical illustrators from across the centuries, including the artist who made a fateful trip with Captain Cook and important contributors to science, feature in Tring.
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Nationwide contemporary art exhibition announced for Scotland in 2014
May 20, 2013 - 8:00pmA Scottish nationwide exhibition of contemporary art, GENERATION, will coincide with the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in summer 2014.
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Hepworth Wakefield to convert adjacent mill into contemporary art space
May 20, 2013 - 8:00pmA 19th century textiles mill on the River Calder, handily positioned opposite The Hepworth Wakefield, will become a major new contemporary arts space.
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Tales of Titian's Diana and Castillo head to summer festivals in cinema truck
May 20, 2013 - 8:00pmVisitors to this year's Hay, Grassington, Buxton and Latitude festivals will be able to sit under a star-studded canopy and be inspired by Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon.
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Look/13 festival takes top photographers to Liverpool
May 19, 2013 - 8:00pmAugust Sander, Rankin and Martin Parr are a few of the artists in a photography festival taking over Liverpool's diverse array of galleries for the next month.
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Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth at Oxford's Bodleian Library
May 19, 2013 - 8:00pmCurators have worked with authors Philip Pullman, Alan Garner and Susan Cooper for a new show at the ancient library where JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis also once worked.
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Museums at Night 2013: Venues and visitors reflect on a successful weekend
May 19, 2013 - 8:00pmFrom Somerset to Cumbria, we look back at some of the reaction to more than 500 events held for Museums at Night 2013, including appearances by leading artists.
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Ashmolean Museum acquires Millais' famous Pre-Raphaelite portrait of John Ruskin
May 19, 2013 - 8:00pmThe Ashmolean Museum has permanently acquired John Everett Millais' famous portrait of John Ruskin thanks to the Arts Council Acceptance in Lieu scheme.
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Museums at Night Report: A twilight tour of the second motte of Lewes Castle
May 17, 2013 - 8:00pmMuseums at Night wouldn't be complete without a night-time tour of a medieval castle. Lewes Castle in East Sussex duly obliged, Culture24's Jenni Davdson went along for the ride.
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Museums at Night Report: An audience with Queen Victoria at Leighton House
May 17, 2013 - 8:00pmThose Victorians knew how to party...Ruth Hazard has a brush with Queen Victoria during an immersive Museums at Night at Lord Leighton's opulent gaff, Leighton House.
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Museums at Night Report: LightNight, Liverpool's city-wide spree of late night culture
May 17, 2013 - 8:00pmBen Miller reports from Liverpool where the city's Light Night reveals how a festival can really galvanise a city's imaginative after-hours culture.
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Museums at Night Report: The Horniman Garden Party with rAndom International
May 17, 2013 - 8:00pmThe premiere of a new work by light magicians rAndom International hit the headlines at London's Horniman. There was music, dancing and poetry. Gin also materialised.
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Museums at Night Report: David Blandy's Biter: Hip-Hop and Freud at the Whitechapel
May 16, 2013 - 8:00pmIn Freud’s study, amid an unblinking collection of classical and Egyptian artefacts, David Blandy delivers lines of broken Hip-Hop verse to the psychoanalyst’s unoccupied seat.
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Museums at Night Report: A Victorian Delight at London's 18 Stafford Terrace
May 16, 2013 - 8:00pmMuseums at Night created a rare chance to sneak inside a 19th century London house, complete with waiting Victorian residents. Richard Moss went to take a look.
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Museums at Night Report: Bat walking through the scented woodlands at Hatchlands Park
May 16, 2013 - 8:00pmFor Museums at Night Amy Strike heads through the bluebell-scented woodlands of Hatchalnds Park for a bat walk in search of Barbastelles and Pipistrelles...
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Museums at Night Report: Behind the scenes at the Faber and Faber Archive
May 16, 2013 - 8:00pmRuth Hazard joins five lucky Museums at Night competition winners who visited the fabled Faber Archive in Bloomsbury for literary tales, readings and rare manuscripts.
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Museums at Night - Friday: Ten tasters for Museums at Night events tonight
May 16, 2013 - 8:00pmWe're into the second night of Culture24's annual Museums at Night Festival - here we have ten taster events to whet your appetite for Friday May 17.
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PM Gallery showcases Second Nature: The influence of environment on fashion in
May 15, 2013 - 8:00pmMoving off the catwalk and into the wilderness, PM Gallery presents a journey through fashion’s love affair with nature, featuring designers Donna Karan, Giles Deacon and Zandra Rhodes.
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