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Tales of Titian's Diana and Castillo head to summer festivals in cinema truck

Visitors 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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Ashmolean Museum acquires Millais' famous Pre-Raphaelite portrait of John Ruskin

The 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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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.

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Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary unites Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and more at The Public

Vitality, 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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Camden Arts Centre's Dieter Roth's diaries offers insight into an elusive artist's life

Camden Arts Centre offers an intimate insight into the impassioned life and work of German-Swiss artist Dieter Roth through a collection of his personal diaries and several large-scale installations.

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Steadman@77: Cartoon Museum's Ralph Steadman Retrospective Exhibition

From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to Extinct Boids, the cult cartoonist stars in a show of around 100 works, accompanied by accolades from Will Self and Johnny Depp.

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Fiona Rae: Maybe you can live on the moon in the next Century at Eastbourne's Towner

Caspar David Friedrich, Albrecht Dürer, Photoshop and a revisited Tokyo childhood inspire Fiona Rae's exhibition at Towner - not to mention "ludicrous but gnomic" elements.

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Leicester's New Walk Museum and Art Gallery welcomes Magic Worlds from the V&A

From 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

Having 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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The eggs and bin bags of Gavin Turk in The Years at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

Surveying two decades of provocative works by the Connect10 artist, Gavin Turk's latest exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts features pop art portrayals and bulging busts.

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Turner Prize 2013 shortlist revealed for Derry-Londonderry

David Shrigley, Laure Prouvost, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Tino Sehgal are the four artists who will compete for this year's Turner Prize.

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Photographer David Sims reimagines David Bowie in Bowievirus outbreak at ICA London

First explored on the cover of magazine Arena Homme Plus last year, David Sims' first UK solo show in 15 years features a Bowie impersonator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre Kiev entertain the Ben Uri Gallery

Featuring the works of the son of the Rabbi of Kiev who became an acclaimed New York theatre design via Moscow, Paris and Berlin, the Ben Uri's new show is a dramatic one.

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John Isaacs and Billy Childish are art ambassadors at Gallery Weekend Berlin

Sculptor John Isaacs and muso-artist Billy Childish will be the stars at two German galleries during a weekend uniting 51 contemporary art spaces.

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BP Portrait Award 2013 is a family affair at London's National Portrait Gallery

A painter who portrayed his three children growing up and an artist whose sitter was her eldest son are the finalists in the National Portrait Gallery's annual award, which has increased the prize......

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