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Book Competition: Win a copy of Isle of the Dead by Alex Connor
June 17, 2013 - 8:00pmLike a crime novel? How about one with an art-historical twist? Read on to win a copy of Isle of the Dead - the latest Titian-flavoured conspiracy crime thriller from Alex Connor.
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John Akomfrah film places cultural theorist Stuart Hall in spotlight at New Art Exchange Nottingham
June 17, 2013 - 8:00pmA biographical three-channel film, Unfinished Conversation, brings its meditative charms to Nottingham.
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Seeing Red: Alex Connor, author of Isle of the Dead, on the power of colour
June 17, 2013 - 8:00pmFrom Titian and Rubens to Rembrandt and Gainsborough, there is a certain magic to the colour red. Alex Connor, whose new book you can win on Culture24, explains why.
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Culture24's top ten re-enactment and living history events for summer 2013
June 17, 2013 - 8:00pmCheck out the top ten re-enactment and living history events happening at museums and heritage sites across the UK during summer 2013.
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Etienne Viard sculpts and buckles The Poetry of Instability at London's Piper Gallery
June 17, 2013 - 8:00pmFrench artist Etienne Viard's debut exhibition in Britain reveals his destructive streak within folded, cut maquettes, steel rods and ironwork.
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Quakes and capitalism in Turning FACT Inside Out
June 17, 2013 - 8:00pmA French duo turn the gallery into a fracking site and an installation turns the value of capitalism into a public referendum as Liverpool's FACT celebrates ten years of new media adventures.
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Heart and Minds brings "powerful resonance" of found objects to Festival of North East
June 17, 2013 - 8:00pmArtist Barrie West and University of Sunderland lecturer Angela Sandwith present a recycled show in a shopping centre, including the cot Sandwith once played in.
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Museums at Night - Saturday: Ten Museums at Night taster events for tonight
June 17, 2013 - 8:00pmWe're into the third and final night of Culture24's annual Museums at Night Festival - so here's our final ten taster events to whet your appetite for Saturday May 18.
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Mavericks and savants make up Hayward Gallery's Alternative Guide to the Universe
June 16, 2013 - 8:00pmBilled as far-fetched and outlandish, the works in the Hayward Gallery's eccentric new show include blueprints to resurrect Paris and the search for unlimited energry.
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Natural History Museum to open Wallace Discovery Trail
June 16, 2013 - 8:00pmToucans, birds of paradise, an adult orang-utan and a portrait by comedian Bill Bailey are among a largely-unseen collection of exhibits relating to Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Frank Holl: Victorian painter is Emerging from the Shadows at Surrey's Watts Gallery
June 16, 2013 - 8:00pmDutiful seamstresses and images of the funereal in a first major retrospective for the Victorian painter commissioned by the Queen and revered at the Royal Academy.
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Affordable Art Fair returns to Hampstead Heath with hundreds of galleries and artists
June 13, 2013 - 8:00pmMoved to June in a bid to make the most of its surroundings, this year's Affordable Art Fair offers families the chance to get hands-on through tours, talks and printmaking.
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Futuristic rave gear and Noah's Ark in Spaceship Unbound at Castlefield Gallery
June 13, 2013 - 8:00pmA group show at Manchester's Castlefield Gallery takes Margaret Atwood's post-apocalypse novel, The Year of the Flood, as a starting point.
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Review: Visions of the Universe at the National Maritime Museum
June 13, 2013 - 8:00pmShowcasing a history of astronomical discovery, the National Maritime Museum's fusion of art and science provides a dazzling insight into the universe.
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Medical Research Council and UCL performers in Life Game festival at the Science Museum
June 13, 2013 - 8:00pmArmed with a paper "character", visitors to the Science Museum in London this weekend will be able to get tips on living a better life from some of the experts.
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Count Duckula's Igor the Butler back on disapproving form for MOSI animation display
June 13, 2013 - 8:00pmRescued from the skip in 2010, a statue of a cult cartoon character will stand at the entrance to a summer show in Manchester following careful surgery on his severed limbs.
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Jake and Dinos Chapman, Antony Gormley and The Gherkin in Sculpture in the City 2013
June 13, 2013 - 8:00pmThe annual show features dinosaurs at the base of the skyscraper, a shiny installation by Ryan Gander and works by Keith Coventry, Jim Lambie and Shirazeh Houshiary.
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National Museum of Computing tells "huge part" of tech history in new software gallery
June 12, 2013 - 8:00pmA robotics display and examples of how software infiltrates everyday domestic items are among the highlights in a new four-section display volunteers say has proved "great fun".
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Swan Upping brings 900 years of royal tradition to the River and Rowing Museum
June 12, 2013 - 8:00pmClad in the Queen's uniform, a group of rowers will monitor swans as part of an ancient tradition on the Thames this month. An exhibition devoted to them explains more.
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The Drawing Theatre – The Paul Kindersley Edition takes over Shoreditch Town Hall
June 12, 2013 - 8:00pmDescribed as a voyeur, madman, conspirator and obsessive, Paul Kindersley leads an afternoon of drawing and performance art with a difference in London this weekend.
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