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Hamish Fulton: Walk and Turner and the Elements lift the spirits at Turner Contemporary

JMW Turner's fascination with the four elements combine with Hamish Fulton's fearless journeys across the world in a powerful pair of shows at the Margate gallery.

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Longlist for Art Fund Prize Museum of the Year 2012 announced

Some of the major new venues around the country - including Bristol's M Shed, the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow, Margate's Turner Contemporary and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - are named on the longlist for the £100,000 prize.

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The Road is Wider than Long: Southampton enjoys Roland Penrose and British Surrealism

More than 100 works by the artist who introduced Surrealism to England accompany works by later practitioner Desmond Morris in a show at Southampton City Art Gallery.

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Stanley Spencer Gallery - 50th Anniversary Exhibition

A 99-year-old portrait of Stanley Spencer as a young man and a work from the Tate made as he faced his death feature at the gallery which was created as a tribute to the artist in the Berkshire town......

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Joys of nature at Turner Contemporary in Turner and the Elements and Hamish Fulton's Walk

A Margate homecoming for JMW Turner's surveys of the four elements, plus brave and bold textual, sculptural and video works from "walking artist" Hamish Fulton.

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David Dawson: Working with Lucian Freud gives portrait of the artist at Pallant House

The man who was Freud's friend and sitter for 20 years - including in his final, unfinished portrait - presents new insights into the artist in an intimate show in Chichester.

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Grayson Perry introduces Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage

Grayson Perry says collage is "in the realm of great artists" as an Arts Council Collection show featuring the likes of Ben Nicholson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Patrick Caulfield and Chris......

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The Garden of Forgotten Engineers, Smiths and Bicycles: Serena Thirkwell in Worthing

The great great granddaughter of Edward Burne-Jones turns a rusty heater into a bee and an old farmer's plough into a helicopter in the garden of Worthing Museum and Art Gallery.

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Hamish Fulton walks into concurrent shows at Turner Contemporary and Ikon Birmingham

The Kent-based artist whose practice involves walking and sometimes mountaineering gets his first public shows since 2002.

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Photographer Nigel Green surveys post-war Picardy in Reconstruction at UCA Canterbury

Combining his grounding in fine art and skill as an architectural photographer, Nigel Green contemplates the styles used to rebuild a French region.

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Emmy Award winners worn in hit BBC series The Tudors to return to Mary Rose Museum

Joan Bergin's designs for the likes of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Joss Stone in the BBC series go back on display in Portsmouth as part of a show of support for rebuild plans.

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Ragtime to Riches – a Musical Legacy honours Walter Harding at the Bodleian Library

Walter Harding, the Chicago ragtime pianist who assembled the world's largest collection of 17th and 18th century music and verse, has his achievements celebrated in Oxford.

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River and Rowing Museum to reveal a stunning unseen collection of John Piper's works

In March, the River and Rowing Museum in Oxfordshire will be marking the 20th anniversary of the death of John Piper with a previously unseen collection of his works.

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Rugby and rolling hills at Horsham Museum for Toby Phillips show Portraits made by Nature

Photographer Toby Phillips presents his shots of local rugby players and the historic Chanctonbury Ring on the South Downs in a new show at Horsham Museum and Art Gallery.

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Search engine giant Google helps Bletchley Park find funding in codebreaking huts quest

Former codebreaking centre Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire has moved closer to a multi-million pound revamp thanks to a £550,000 charitable gift from Google.

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