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Liverpool Biennial 2010 shapes up to be biggest yet as 45 new commissions visit Merseyside

Liverpool gears up for ten weeks of contemporary art with exhibitions across the city for this year's festival, Touched.

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Culture24 Listings Pick: Above the Beaten Track at the Bluecoat

Ben Miller selects a Saturday soiree of multicultural ear candy, thespian tinkerings and artistic devotion for his weekend listing pick.

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Piermaster's House and National Conservation Centre could be axed in Liverpool by October

Heritage sites are under threat as National Museums Liverpool prepares to have its government funding slashed.

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Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L Jackson head to the UK for Captain America: The First Avenger

Planners at Liverpool's Stanley Docks and Manchester's Northern Quarter are celebrating after Marvel Studios picked the pair of North-West venues for a series of blockbuster scenes to be filmed in......

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Marcus Coates tries to save Liverpool flats in Journey to Lower World at Walker Art Gallery

Eccentric shaman genius Marcus Coates attempts to save a block of flats from demolition in his acclaimed video piece.

97-year-old Neptune Theatre could reopen next year after Liverpool owners finally strike deal

Liverpool City Council will commit £700,000 to refurbishing the historic Neptune Theatre after ending a lengthy lease dispute.

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20-tonne coach becomes first object at the new £72 million Museum of Liverpool

An enormous coach used on the Liverpool docks at the end of the 19th century has become the first exhibit to be moved into the city's massive new Museum of Liverpool.

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Contract sealed for new £50 million Liverpool Library

The three-month process to empty Liverpool Central Library will begin on Friday after council chiefs and planners ended four years of planning by signing the building contract.

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Liverpool's Sudley House rings the bells for Hitched: Wedding Clothes and Costumes show

Beautiful wedding wear from bygone eras are the focus for a new show at Sudley House on the history of getting hitched.

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Six artists from the Arabic world line up in Arabicity: Such a Near East at the Bluecoat

A new show at the Bluecoat mixes the foreign with the more familiar in a celebration of the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival.

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James Francis Hurley photographs reveal Ernest Shackleton's heroic Antarctic journey

James Francis Hurley's inside shots of Ernest Shackleton's expedition go on display at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

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Nine artists study the memory in multimedia Persistence of Vision at FACT in Liverpool

Gebhard Sengmüller, Lindsay Seers and Mizuke Watanabe star in an exploration of remembering, forgetting and vision.

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LS Lowry oil painting of Liverpool's Waterloo docks arrives at Walker Art Gallery

A rare painting of the city docks painted by LS Lowry in 1962 is puzzling curators at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.

Curator's Choice: Frances Morris of Tate Modern on Picasso's Weeping Woman

Frances Morris, Head of Collections at Tate Modern, explains why Picasso's Weeping Woman is a personal favourite.

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CPD for teachers: Teaching the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Last minute call for training programme with bursary offer for UK teachers from National Museums Liverpool.

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