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Look/13 festival takes top photographers to Liverpool

August Sander, Rankin and Martin Parr are a few of the artists in a photography festival taking over Liverpool's diverse array of galleries for the next month.

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Museums at Night Report: LightNight, Liverpool's city-wide spree of late night culture

Ben Miller reports from Liverpool where the city's Light Night reveals how a festival can really galvanise a city's imaginative after-hours culture.

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The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for May 2013

From a Bank Holiday party in Cambridge to the inspiring Museums at Night and the opening of the £27 million Mary Rose Museum, here are our history highlights this month.

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Sudley House marks 100 years of social change and fashion in Twentieth century Chic

Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Christian Dior, Yves St Laurent and more star in a show of style and social change at Liverpool's Sudley House.

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Pink Floyd to Lady Gaga: The Art of Pop Video at FACT Liverpool

From dancers in Fatboy Slim videos to works directed by Andy Warhol, an extensive survey of pop videos past and present features Queen, Prince, Björk, Ladytron and Bob Dylan.

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Dancing on Ice winner Beth Tweddle gets plastered at Museum of Liverpool

A gold body cast of Olympic gymnast and primetime television twirler Beth Tweddle, will be officially unveiled at the Museum of Liverpool this week.

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Transatlantic realist painter Sylvia Sleigh brings female gaze to Tate Liverpool

Tate Liverpool serves up a first UK retrospective of an overlooked Welsh painter with their exhibition covering more than five decades in the life and work of Sylvia Sleigh.

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Tate Liverpool celebrates the early 70s with Glam: The Performance of Style

David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol are among the many artists who show there was more to glam than music at Tate Liverpool.

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The Culture24/7: Machines and festivals in our February 2013 Science and Nature picks

From Brighton to Newcastle, this month sees extinction, a Squeeze/Hug Machine, steampunk and reconstructed heads in a packed scientific line-up.

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Artist's Statement: Nicola Green on the trail of Barack Obama at Liverpool's Walker

Nicola Green followed Barack Obama from stadiums and gyms to his presidential inauguration. Her silkscreens make their European debut at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.

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Winter Sparks and Noisy Table ping pong invite visitors to interact with the artworks at FACT

An interactive programme of works is taking gallery visitors to FACT in Liverpool into the winter with an electric programme of impressive large-scale reactive installations.

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Culture24/7: A scintillating Science and Nature selection box to round off your 2012

"Hackable" table-tennis games, Arctic gnomes and a trip to Ecuador in our pick of seven Science and Nature exhibitions to keep an eye on this December.

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Pioneering feminist Judy Chicago is back after long absence with three UK shows

Not seen in London since 1985, the West Coast artist now has shows at Riflemaker, Ben Uri (The London Jewish Museum of Art) and, in Liverpool, at the Black-E.

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Thresholds group show explores politics of hospitality at Tate Liverpool

The Merseyside gallery brings together works about nationhood and migration as part of the Liverpool Biennial, which has launched under the theme The Unexpected Guest.

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Corporate commissions meet grassroot ambitions as Liverpool Biennial gets underway

New director Sally Tallant aims to put Liverpool's art scene in the history books with a wealth of influential work. Mark Sheerin takes a look.

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