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Museums at Night 2012: Win tickets to Spike Jonze and Sam Taylor-Wood films at top hotel

Pop-up mini-film festival Future Shorts is bringing six films to the glamorous Soho Hotel in London for Museums at Night, and you can win a ticket to the screening.

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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.

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Bob & Roberta Smith's Art on the Underground project launches on Central Line for Olympics

Bob & Roberta Smith is the latest artist to engage with Art on the Underground - in readiness for an Olympic surge through the Central Line.

The British Library travels from Wastelands to Wonderlands in impressive haul of British literary manuscripts

The exhibition brings together more than 150 works from the library archives to explore the literature that has been inspired by places and spaces around the British isles.

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Japanese Red Army makes reappearance thanks to Eric Baudelaire at Gasworks

The French artist brings film and documentation to the South London gallery, with testimonies from May Shigenobu and Masao Adachi.

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Anne Desmet reveals her Olympic Metamorphoses at PM Gallery and House

Wood-engraved print portraits of the surrounding area and collages of the building phases as the Royal Academy artist responds to the Olympic construction near her home.

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Within This Wooden O conjures the time of the Bard at Shakespeare's Globe

The haunting paintings of Rosalind Lyons Hudson are the result of a residency at the Globe Theatre and currently form part of the famous theatre's exhibition and tour programme.

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Bauhaus: Life as Art at the Barbican Art Gallery

From precise watercolours and multiple overlapping circles to lamps, wall hangings, tubular steel chairs and party invites from 1920s Weimar, the Barbican's huge new installation testifies to the......

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Museums at Night 2012: Artists head out across the UK - your guide to Connect10 events

In the inaugural year of the Museums at Night Connect10 competition, the likes of Martin Parr, Polly Morgan, Terry O'Neill and Bompas and Parr are heading to venues across the UK.

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Kalashnikov schoolbook gives chilling insight into Afghan conflict at National Army Museum

A school textbook at the National Army Museum reveals how the Soviet-Afghan war touched the everyday lives of citizens in Afghanistan.

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Jerwood Space tackles art and the pervading influence of the internet

A new group show at the Jerwood Space in London aims to explore the influence of the constantly-shifting platform of the Internet.

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Evolutionary David Breuer-Weil sculptures stalk Hanover Square

A set of four primal craggy bronze men, created by sculptor David Breuer-Weil in his Emergence series, appear to rise from the ground in a major new commission at a green refuge in Oxford Circus.

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Painted love: Corinna Spencer talks Twitter and plywood for new group show on obsession

Transition Gallery in East London is the first of three venues to host the curatorial debut by Coventry-based painter Corinna Spencer.

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Street artist Mau Mau embraces gallery walls with solo show at West Bank

The Devon-born artist who has had sell-out shows in Tokyo mixes social comment with commercial nous in a London appearance.

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Photos and drawings reclaim the throwaway in group show at Hoxton Art Gallery

Stephen Gill, Colin Glen, Beatrice Haines, Laura Culham and Janne Malmros all bring focus to meticulous works in Et Cetera.

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