Craft
Keep up to date with craft news and exhibition reviews from UK museums and galleries and explore the latest listings, websites and resources highlighting Britain's great craft collections and practitioners.
Sculptor Nicholas Rena and weaver Stella Benjamin in Harmony of the Year in Cambridge
Striking ceramics and colourful textile weaving from a pair of internationally acclaimed artists in a new exhibition at Cambridge's Lynne Strover Gallery.
Hidden Heritage: Mrs Stirling, Old Battersea House and the De Morgan Collection
An exhibition at the De Morgan Collection brings its guidng light - the inimitable Mrs Stirling, a remarkable Battersea resident, author and collector of Victorian art - to light.
Galvanize Festival of Contemporary Metal shows off talent and innovation of Sheffield
Taking over some of Sheffield's most inspiring venues during May, the steel city's programme of displays, activities and workshops is a metal festival with a difference.
Julian Stair, Quietus: The Vessel, Death and the Human Body at National Museum Cardiff
The dextrous potter and writer explores the age-old relationship between pottery and human burial rituals in a Cardiff display of beautiful vessels.
The Leach Pottery reveals its east-meets-west ethos in Shigeyoshi Ichino Memorial Exhibition
One of the later Japanese potters to work at the Leach is celebrated with a show celebrating the East-West flow of ideas began by Bernard Leach during the early 20th century.
Earth Air Fire Water - 16 Somerset Artists in their Element at the Museum of Somerset
Working in a multitude of highly crafty forms, some of the finest artists with roots in Somerset are given a rare showcase in the county in a hands-on new exhibition.
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery channels Constance Howard in Seduction of Stitchery
The locally-born embroidery pioneer inspires a major triennial exhibition by the Northamptonshire Branch of the Embroider's Guild.
Ambitious York Art Gallery project gets £3.5m funding boost from Lottery
The £8 million development of York Art Gallery as a centre for studio ceramics has been given a boost by a £3.5 million grant from National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond at Oxford's Bodleian Library
A poetic history of Alexander the Great and a 60,000-couplet which is the longest poem ever written by a single person star in an Oriental literary winter at the Bodleian.
Culture24 guide to online Christmas shopping: The Best Museum and Gallery shops online
There's still plenty of time to do your Christmas shopping online. Here's the Culture24 guide to the best museum and gallery online shops.
Vanity of Small Differences from Grayson Perry's Channel 4 series to begin tour in Sunderland
The set of tapestries made by Grayson Perry, inspired by meeting communities around the country, will start a national tour in Sunderland.
Master makers create crafty gifts in annual Christmas Present at Gateshead's Shipley
Jewellery inspired by the Lake District and textiles woven in one of the country's finest studios are among the highlights in the Shipley Art Gallery's annual exhibition.
Cutting edge artists head to University of Westminster for Other art Fair at Ambika P3
More than 100 contemporary artists are hoping to sell their works directly to the public as the three-day fair returns for a third year after attracting 7,000 people in 2011.
Secret Splendour: Hidden World of Baroque Cabinets at Bath's Holburne Museum
Once the reserve of the privileged few during the 17th century, a range of exotic cabinets have opened their doors to the public in a decadent display at the Holburne.
Culture24/7: Top art exhibitions to see in November 2012
From Manchester to Chichester, we scour the UK for the most promising shows in the world of art, old and new. Find your nearest here:
