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Watch the video: Bompas and Parr bring out the jelly for Museums at Night 2012

Watch as your favourite jellymongers send the crowds wild by filling the site of the famous old Brunel's ss Great Britain, in Bristol, with thousands of litres of neon green jelly.

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Vegan options, dehumidifiers and 55,000 litres of jelly: Museums at Night with Bompas and Parr at ss Great Britain

The most gobstopping event of Culture24's Museums at Night 2012 might come at Brunel's ss Great Britain in Bristol, where jellymongers Bompas and Parr have a wobbly masterplan.

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Flash, Bang, Wallop! recreates bygone journeys to Australia on Brunel's ss Great Britain

The Bristol ship will be luring visitors to recreate portraits of emigrants to Australia and New Zealand from 160 years ago and try on threads from a specially-made wardrobe.

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Cemeteries, ships and coffins as Heritage Sandbox backs £300,000 of digital projects

The "Creative Economy" - and heritage fans - receive good news as six digital history projects share a £300,000 award linked to the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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Eric Ravilious the Romantic Modernist at The Royal West of England Academy in Bristol

The seemingly innocent pastoral landscapes of Eric Ravilious are re-examined to reveal their Modernist credentials at the RWA in Bristol.

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Oscar winner Michel Legrand and iPad art feature in Filmic at the Watershed in Bristol

Artists and filmmakers head to the Watershed in Bristol for a new festival exploring the glorious tangle of film, art and music.

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Competition: Win the complete Eric Ravilious in Pictures courtesy of the Mainstone Press

To celebrate the opening of the Royal West of England Academy's Eric Ravilious: Going Modern / Being British exhibition, Culture24 readers can win the beautiful accompanying Ravilious in Pictures......

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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 ......

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Haroon Mirza brings the noise with sound installations at Bristol's Spike Island

A new show at Spike Island titled /|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/|/| finds the young Sheffield-based artist Haroon Mirza building on successes of 2011.

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Museum Show Part 2 brings back 11 semi-fictional institutions to Arnolfini Bristol

Vicente Razo, Simon Fujiwara and Hu Xiangqian are among the artists who double up as museum directors for the second part of a playful survey at the Arnolfini.

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Marshall McLuhan's Message explored through season of events at Watershed in Bristol

The enduring legacy of the man who first came up with the terms "global village" and "surfing" is explored in a series of films and events at the Bristol venue.

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Major museums in Bristol, Liverpool and London mark International Slavery Remembrance Day

Have a look at what's on for the 13th year of the Remembrance Day in London, Bristol and Liverpool.

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Last Chance to See: Beryl Cook – Larger than Life at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Plymouth artist Beryl Cook's fat ladies and nude men are on show in the latest major retrospective of her work following the popular painter's death in 2008.

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Culture24/7: Art picks for August 2011

Another excellent month in art features the sprawling Edinburgh Art Festival, the first exhibition at M Shed in Bristol, Paul Weller and pure pop culture in his hometown of Woking and one of the......

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Martin Parr to form first show at M Shed museum in Bristol

Bristol and West, a display of 60 locally-themed images by Martin Parr held in the city the photographer calls home, will be the largest show of his work in Bristol since 1974. Visitors will also be......

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