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John Terry, Naomi Campbell and The Incredible Hulk go hell for leather in Mark Evans debut at Scream Gallery

Mark Evans, Rio Ferdinand's favourite etcher, tells us about the footballers, supermodels and rock stars in his debut solo show.

Tate Modern Director Vicente Todolí announces departure

Spanish Director Vicente Todolí will leave London this summer after seven years at Tate Modern.

Ton up for UK games as River and Rowing Museum launches Our Sporting Life project

A raft of 100 pre-Olympics exhibitions celebrating sport in the UK has launched at Henley's River and Rowing Museum.

a landscape painting of a castle with people walking around it

Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain at the Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy's latest exhibition reveals why Paul Sandby was one of the most popular painters of the eighteenth century.

Chopin and Poland explored at the British Library

The British Library is marking Frédéric Chopin's 200th birthday with an exhibition examining his Polish heritage.

Female force behind Olympic London celebrated at Museum of London Docklands

The women behind the 2012 Olympics star in a new show at the Museum of London Docklands.

An installation with an illuminated spiral tower

Ai Weiwei to undertake Unilever commission at Tate Modern Turbine Hall

One of China’s "greatest living artists" has been chosen as the first to represent the Asia-Pacific region in The Unilever Series at the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Ai Weiwei is the eleventh big...

Simon Pope's Memory Marathon swaps batons with microphones for Olympic flashbacks

Last November, artist Simon Pope spent a day walking 26 miles across the East End of London, discussing Olympic memories with local residents every 400 metres. A film of the day, Memory Marathon, has ...

War, Plague and Fire made gorily real in new Museum of London gallery

Culture24 heads to the popular Museum of London for a look around death masks, burnt-out windows, execution wear and scorched helmets at the gruesome new War, Plague and Fire gallery.

Screenprint of a pair of young men in suits and handcuffs shielding their eyes

Richard Hamilton weighs Modern Moral Matters at Serpentine Gallery

Pop art meets politics in a major show by Richard Hamilton at London"s Serpentine Gallery. Mixed media gives rise to a range of messages in Modern Moral Matters, as Mark Sheerin finds out.

a black and white photo of an airborn propellor driven aeroplane

Kingston University remembers Hawker Hurricane "man who saved Britain"

Kingston University is honouring Sir Sydney Camm, the inventor of Battle of Britain workhorse the Hawker Hurricane.

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill uncovered in Victoria and Albert Museum exposé

Strawberry Hill, the summer villa built by Horace Walpole in the 18th century, has given hundreds of objects belonging to the first English art historian to the Victoria and Albert Museum while it...

French war photographer Sophie Ristelhueber wins Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

Conceptualist Sophie Ristelhueber has won the Deutsche Börse Prize at The Photographers' Gallery in London.

Nigella Lawson and Alan Yentob open transformed Jewish Museum in London

Nigella Lawson and Alan Yentob have unveiled the Jewish Museum London following a £10 million development programme.

Secret second floor rooms of Sir John Soane's Museum to open after £813,000 Lottery win

The Sir John Soane's Museum is one of seven winners in a £4.4 million round of Heritage Lottery Fund investment.

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