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Paintings from the Bay Area School: Californian Artists from the 40s, 50s and 60s

A new exhibition at Thomas Williams Fine Art shows how the Bay Area School affected the post-war American art scene dramatically and helped define a new counter-culture.

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Blooming Marvellous reveals master botanic illustrators at Natural History Museum Tring

Great 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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PM Gallery showcases Second Nature: The influence of environment on fashion

Moving 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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Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth at Oxford's Bodleian Library

Curators 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 Report: An audience with Queen Victoria at Leighton House

Those 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: A twilight tour of the second motte of Lewes Castle

Museums 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.

Lazarides and Robert Del Naja aka 3D present the art of Massive Attack in: Fire Sale

Shown together for the first time, a London retrospective looks at the artworks spawned by British trip-hop artists Massive Attack during the past two decades.

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Gasworks gallery presents Resolution 978 HD: An Exhibition by Model Court

Model Court, a collective of visual and conceptual artists, provides a striking interrogation of the controversial use of technology in universal jurisdiction.

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Curator's Choice: Ciara Phipps on colourful court shoes at Newcastle's Discovery Museum

Find out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.

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Oldest surviving English grand piano to play again at Duke of Wellington's Apsley House

Owned by the Duke of Wellington in the magnificent Hyde Park house he lived in after Waterloo, Americus Backers' 241-year-old grand piano has gone on public view.

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National Railway Museum makes final touches to magnificent Dominion of Canada train

Organisers in York say the painstaking process of adding lettering to the side of a 1930s locomotive from Canada is the culmination of a "labour of love".

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Maurizio Anzeri creates photo-sculptures in solo show commissioned by Chapter

Maurizio Anzeri creates imagined identities from found photographs and abstract embroidery as part of Diffusion, Cardiff's Biennial International Photography Festival.

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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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First past the chequered flag: Silverstone qualifies for Heritage Lottery Fund support

The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced initial support worth £68 million for six major projects in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Rustless: Harry Brearley and the Impact of Stainless on Everyday Life at Kelham Island

A century after Harry Brearley hit upon the formula for "rustless" steel, a renamed room and two displays at Kelham Island Museum honour the Sheffield lad's achievements.

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