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Come Carnival: Works by Markéta Luskačová and Francis West at London's Piper Gallery

Czech carnivals and a "Pandora's Box" of shape-shifting, imaginary scenes as photographer Markéta Luskačová and painter Francis West combine mystical forces.

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London Beyond Sight unites celebrities in show of heritage love

Barbara Windsor, Rob da Bank, Joely Richardson and Tony Robinson are among a cast of 40 well-known Londoners to describe their favourite sites across the capital.

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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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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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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: The Horniman Garden Party with rAndom International

The 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: A Victorian Delight at London's 18 Stafford Terrace

Museums 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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Martin Creed talks art, music and psychotherapy ahead of Museums at Night at the Freud Museum

Ahead of his Museums at Night appearance at the Freud Museum in London, Martin Creed reveals to Culture24's Mark Sheerin why he is a big fan of Freud.

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Catlin Prize shortlist of nine makes for slick show in Londonewcastle Project Space

The dark cube-like Shoreditch gallery's new exhibition is putting the pick of recent graduates in their best light. Mark Sheerin takes a look.

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Museums at Night Report: Behind the scenes at the Faber and Faber Archive

Ruth Hazard joins five lucky Museums at Night competition winners who visited the fabled Faber Archive in Bloomsbury for literary tales, readings and rare manuscripts.

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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Felice Varini performs trick of illusion in Across the Buildings at King's Cross

The Swiss artist's first major commission in the UK uses projected metallic shapes to create an illusion across buildings spanning 542 metres.

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Shadows of former King's College labs fill Somerset House Inigo Rooms in Plant Science

An installation art duo are carrying out a reclamation of the "oddly significant" artefacts from a doomed set of labs where leading scientists once worked in London.

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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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