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The FA Cup, Connect 4, Wombles and Bee Gees star in Silver 70s at Leeds City Museum

Travel back in time as Leeds celebrates the decade of the Raleigh Chopper, David Bowie, the Silver Jubilee and an FA Cup win for Leeds United.

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Wirral artist Leo Fitzmaurice wins Northern Art Prize 2012 and £16,500 at Leeds Art Gallery

Chosen from an exhibiting shortlist of four, the artist who presented a makeshift slideshow of shots taken on his mobile phone wins the annual Northern Art Prize.

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"Obsessive, mordant and morbid" Glamourie sends 26 artists to Project Space Leeds

Handmade hurdy-gurdy and giant cardboard heads as 26 contemporary British artists are brought together in a new exhibition at Project Space Leeds.

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Northern Art Prize 2011 exhibition rewards time and effort at Leeds City Art Gallery

Elizabeth Hughes finds a lesson in avoiding immediacy in Leeds, where work by the four finalists hoping to win the Northern Art Prize make for an intriguing exhibition.

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In Pictures: Leeds Art Gallery gets ready to host quartet of hopefuls in Northern Art Prize 2011

Finalists Liadin Cooke, Leo Fitzmaurice, James Hugonin and Richard Rigg will showcase work ranging from binary designs to towering sculpture at this year's Northern Art Prize.

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Leeds Art Gallery introduces Artineraries range of trails to help time-poor art lovers

Curators in Leeds devise timed trails in a bid to help visitors navigate a collection which includes the likes of Damien Hirst, Paula Rego, Atkinson Grimshaw and Bob & Roberta Smith.

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Jonathan Rhys-Myers and Joely Richardson's BBC Tudors outfits star at Royal Armouries in Leeds

The makers of BBC series The Tudors and designer Joan Bergin have lent a series of "sexy and foxy" outfits worn by stars to the Royal Armouries' Tournament Gallery.

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Tacita Dean presents a different side of Italian sculpture genius Mario Merz at Henry Moore

Mario Merz, the 2002 portrait of the camera-shy artist, joins mysterious drawings by Tacita Dean and her filmic views of other artists including Cy Twombly at the Institute.

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11,000 visitors for first week of Damien Hirst show at Leeds Art Gallery

More than 11,000 visitors passed throught the doors of Leeds Art Gallery during the first week of a major free show of Damien Hirst's work

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Art planners appeal for return of giant bobble hat stolen from Junction project in Leeds

Leaders are hoping CCTV footage of a giant bobble hat sculpture stolen from a Jamie's Italian will lead to its return.

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Junction project aims to stop the traffic as controller boxes in Leeds are turned on by art

A dozen artists have turned grey controller boxes into interventions certain to entertain across Leeds.

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Last Chance to see: Tate Britain Henry Moore given a northern outing at Leeds Art Gallery

The largest show at Leeds Art Gallery since the British Art Show of 1990 is a blockbuster one courtesy of Henry Moore.

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Spiceworld goes number one in Leeds City Museum display

Since buying two copies of Wannabe in 1996, Liz West has made it her mission to assemble the largest collection of Spice Girls memorabilia on Earth. The most high-profile display of her efforts so......

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Tate Britain's Henry Moore blockbuster heads for homecoming Yorkshire show at Leeds Art Gallery

The multi-disciplinary survey of Henry Moore's career becomes the largest show at Leeds Art Gallery for more than two decades.

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Haroon Mirza's Anthemoessa installation wins £16,500 Northern Art Prize at Leeds Art Gallery

The Sheffield lover of "that moment when noises become sound" echoes triumph of Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz.

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