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Ikon Youth Programme reviews Jane and Louise Wilson film piece at the Herbert

The Birmingham gallery sends teenage critics on an assignment to nearby Coventry for a show about an unfinished Stanley Kubrick movie.

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Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary unites Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and more at The Public

Vitality, diversity and humour are the aims for curator David Thorp in a British Council touring show which brings the likes of David Shrigley and Martin Creed to West Bromwich.

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Tom Hunter finds shrines from a disappearing world in Findings of Birmingham

In an exhibition of pinhole photographs at a central square in Birmingham, acclaimed photographer Tom Hunter takes a journey back into the country's industrial heritage and his own history.

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Culture24/7: Science and Nature highlights for May 2013

From the Thames and Kew Gardens to Greenland and journeys through the Earth, May is an inspiring month in Science and Nature. Here are a few exhibitions we've spotted.

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Julian Wild talks Meccano, industrial history and sculpture for Museums at Night 2013

Ahead of his Museums at Night public sculpture project at the Ironbridge Gorge industrial heritage site on May 18, sculptor Julian Wild talks to Mark Sheerin about his ambitious plans.

Birthplace Trust, galleries and museums to "bypass barriers" in Shakespeare Week 2014

Dozens of cultural institutions across the country will help the inaugural Shakespeare Week inspire millions of people when it launches in March 2014.

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A Centenary of Stainless Steel: The Old Hall Connection at Walsall Museum

Who knew about the impact stainless steel had in Walsall? A new show reveals a design dream created by a husband and wife unimpressed with their cleaning nearly a century ago.

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Science Culture24/7: Seismic stations, liposuction fat and insect eating for April 2013

Bones in Coventry, pests in London, steel science in Sheffield and rumbles and groans in Manchester in our round-up of some Science and Nature highlights this month.

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Factory Girls takes nostalgic trip through bright bygone work clothes at Walsall Museum

From dress-like overalls during the 1920s to the nylon jackets of the 1960s and 1970s, a nostalgic exhibition in Walsall collates workwear from local factories.

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Birmingham residents debut in drawing show along with European neighbours

Ikon Gallery hosts an exhibition by communities in Northfield, Berlin, Bologna and Castellón as part of the Post Marks project.

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Glasgow collection of Italian art spanning 500 years heads for Compton Verney

Works from a leading civic art collection appear with the Warwickshire gallery's permanent collection from Naples.

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Huge Aston Martin archive to reveal letters to James Bond in two-year exhibition

A vast archive, assembled during 35 years of collecting by the late historian for Aston Martin, will go on display for the first time at the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust.

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Thrift Radiates Happiness opens Birmingham's Municipal Bank Building after a decade

Partly a meeting of finance and architecture, a bank created by former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain a century ago will be taken over by artists including Spartacus Chetwynd .

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David Hancock's Cosplay, Zed Nelson's Love Me and Sensing Sculpture in Wolverhampton

Cosplayers in the Midlands, an interactive gallery of sculpture and the chase for beauty worldwide fills Wolverhampton Art Gallery's halls.

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Birmingham to reveal new £1 million Metropolis: Reflections on the Modern City

Urban views from across the world, as well as Birmingham's own architecture, come to the city's Museum and Art Gallery in a major new collection of contemporary art.

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