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"Most important meteorite in 100 years" gives Natural History Museum glimpse of life on Mars
The Natural History Museum has bought the largest meteorite ever to be added to its collection, found in the aftermath of a blaze above the skies of Morocco in 2011.
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.
Six decades of work by Yayoi Kusama disorient and delight at Tate Modern
The first major survey of the Japanese artist's work brings together painting, documentation, film, and installation in a show of two halves.
Her Maj: Cartoon Museum heralds Diamond Jubilee with 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits
The curator of the new show at The Cartoon Museum in London, tells us about some star portraits from the minds of Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and their contemporaries, taken from the likes of......
South London Black Music Archive catalogues local musical tastes at Peckham Space
A gallery in South London is filing away vinyl, cassettes, t-shirts and other ephemera for a show with a long shelf life by Barby Asante.
David Shrigley: Brain Activity at the Hayward Gallery
David Shrigley's intuitive work - showcased across 20 years in an exhibition featuring 68 pieces created specifically for the Hayward in London - makes for a refreshingly simple show amid the stuffed ......
Artist's Statement: Emily Young on The Metaphysics of Stone
The British sculptor talks about her contemplative and ambitious urban project in Berkeley Square, London.
World Society for the Protection of Animals seeks museum for unique Wildlife Crime display
The World Society for the Protection of Animals and a wildlife crime team working for London's Metropolitan Police are appealing to potential venues to host an exhibition.
SS Robin to reopen to public in time for the London 2012 Olympics
The world's oldest complete steamship will become a heritage site, training centre for the public and symbol of regeneration in London in time for the Olympics.
Hajj: journeys to the heart of Islam at the British Museum
Hajj is the only one of the five pillars of Islam that is closed to non-Muslims, but a major new exhibition at the British Museum - the first dedicated just to the Hajj - gives an insight into the......
Ori Gersht: This Storm is What we Call Progress at the Imperial War Museum London
In his first major solo show in the UK, Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht presents films and photography exploring the personal and visual scars of war.
Five-year, £1.4 million project to reveal "unsung heroes" of biomedicine
In the largest research project of its kind ever carried out in the UK, the University of London and the Wellcome Trust will spend five years collecting the stories of the people behind the medical......
Immortal Nature sees ten artists ponder impending doom at London's Edel Assanti
A psycho-geographical, end-of-the-world exploration of the relationship between civilisation and nature turns the floors of the gallery into Underworld, Earth and the Afterlife.
Hajj: The British Museum journeys to the heart of Islam
The world's first exhibition on Hajj - the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca - has opened at the British Museum with a wealth of rare artefacts and treasures.
Social Fabric looks at three centuries of the global textile industry at Rivington Place
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) brings together Alice Creischer and Sudhir Patwardhan for a show about cotton and chintz.
