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Museums at Night 2012: Send us your photos from the best year yet of Culture24's festival
It was an amazing year for Museums at Night, which hosted 535 events in more than 450 venues across the UK. We want you to send us your pictures from the weekend of wonder.
From Exeter to Edinburgh, final four announced on "truly exceptional" Art Fund Prize shortlist
Ylva French takes a look at Art Fund final four The Hepworth Wakefield, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and the Watts Gallery.
Nine photographers respond to Italian economic miracle in group show at Stills
Although perhaps out of step with present realities, a new show in Edinburgh demonstrates the visual appeal of boom years.
Indie stars Django Django to play National Museum of Scotland for Museums at Night
Django Django, the psych-indie band who have had critics purring over their debut album, will play an exclusive gig in their home city of Edinburgh for this year's festival.
In Pictures: The Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
From an Art Lending Library to Jeremy Deller's inflatable Stonehenge on a city green, take a look at some of the highlights as one of the UK's most vibrant art festivals draws to a close.
Curator's Choice: David McCracken takes a look at artist Donald Urquhart's Big Jessie
David McCracken, of show organisers Peacock Visual Arts, tells us about a print featuring Elvis, Tilda Swinton, Lena Zavaroni and the "energetic glamour" of Glasgow.
Elvis and Lulu get the Big Jessie treatment from Donald Urquhart at Glasgow's Brunswick
Former drag queen and clubnight accomplice Donald Urquhart brings a "low-brow bunch" to a display of his cartoonish black ink drawings at a merchant city hotel.
Get a bounce on: Glasgow's International Festival of Visual Art enters final weekend
The Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art heads into the bank holiday weekend with plenty still to see and do in Scotland's cool capital of contemporary art.
The Culture24/7: Art picks for May 2012
A round-up of shows from Edinburgh, Bristol, London, Portsmouth, Liverpool and Milton Keynes.
The Culture24/7: History and Heritage highlights for a marvellous May 2012
Enjoy an incredible display from ancient China at the Fitzwilliam Museum, an Angolan odyssey at the Powell Cotton Museum and annual funfest Museums at Night.
Heritage sites enjoy TLC as Historic Scotland announces more than £4 million in awards
The country's oldest surviving library and a new learning centre are among the winners as Historic Scotland pledges funding to 16 recipients.
Jeremy Deller and Wolfgang Tillmans headline Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
Combining an arts biennial approach with the events-based feel of a festival, this year's Glasgow International showcases more than 130 artists - and a plastic Stonehenge.
Edvard Munch: Graphic Works at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Love, death, melancholy and anxiety as dozens of Munch lithographs and woodcuts from the Gundersen Collection go on show, including variations of The Scream.
£537,000 funding boost for conservation project at Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site
The SITA trust gives the site a substanistial grant to help conserve parts of the Wall that have fallen on to the Heritage at Risk register because of their state of disrepair.
The Essence of Beauty looks at 500 years of Italian Art at Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow
Drawing together pieces from galleries across the city, this new exhibition features some of the best of Italian Art produced between the late 14th and 19th centuries.
