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News A marvellous menagerie as National Museum Wales opens new gallery The Wolf InsideChickens, pigs, goats and complete horse and cow skeletons feature in the Cardiff museum's new gallery, which also draws close comparisons between wolves and dogs.10 October 2012
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News A stitch in time: work starts on the Great Scottish Tapestry at the Scottish ParliamentAuthor Alexander McCall Smith and Scottish Parliament officer Tricia Marwick have put the initial stitches to a tapestry of Scottish history that is expected to be the longest in the world.10 April 2012
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News A Study in Scarlet: Stephen Fry and friends mark 125 years of Conan Doyle's Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes fans will get a glimpse of a rarely-seen first edition of A Study in Scarlet at Portsmouth City Museum, accompanied by an audio tour voiced by Stephen Fry.23 November 2012
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News Achievements of Project Art Works group celebrated with Anthology launch at Tate BritainA group which has spent 15 years working with galleries and artists to improve the lives of people with severe intellectual impairments has launched a book recording its work.31 October 2012
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News Airport x-ray scans reveal haul of new Bronze Age axeheads in pot found in Jersey fieldArchaeologists believe the weapons found in a pot in the area of Trinity last month may have been used as objects of prestige after finding a further 21 axeheads inside the vessel.13 November 2012
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Interview Artist’s Statement: Mark Wallinger on 10000000000000000 at BALTICAs a major site specific work opens at the Gateshead gallery, the former Turner Prize winner talks archaeology and chess computers to Culture24's Mark Sheerin.26 June 2012
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Interview Artist’s Statement: Ultimate Holding Company at Tatton Park Biennial 2012Artists Julie McCarthy and Jai Redman talk about their novel and outdoor sculpture, The Cartland Institute for Romance Research.23 May 2012
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News Attention-craving meerkat to meet Newcastle in animal invasion at Life Science CentreFurry facilitator Jay Gunn promises the truth about animals as he prepares to accompany bats and planetarium shows in a weekend of fun at the Newcastle centre.01 May 2012
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News Barr Beacon to become wonder of Walsall after planners win £440,000 Lottery awardA damaged war memorial for Warwickshire and Staffordshire on a site mentioned in the Domesday Book will become a centre for community pride in a three-year heritage project.27 March 2012
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Review Bedwyr Williams lays siege to Ikon on the occasion of largest solo show to dateThe Welsh artist and sometime stand-up comic brings ambiguous humour, surreal drawings and ambitious intervention to the Birmingham gallery.22 May 2012
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News Cemeteries, ships and coffins as Heritage Sandbox backs £300,000 of digital projectsThe "Creative Economy" - and heritage fans - receive good news as six digital history projects share a £300,000 award linked to the Arts and Humanities Research Council.13 April 2012
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News Charles Dickens Museum reopens after £3.1 million transformationTaking over its neighbouring house, the Doughty Street building where Charles Dickens once lived reopens to round off the bicentenary of his birth in style.05 December 2012
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C24 Feature Christmas versus contemporary art: a mismatch worth celebratingAs galleries flag up their New Year's offerings, you might not know that in the art world it is still the season of goodwill. Mark Sheerin asks why not.20 December 2012
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News Colossus machine gets new gallery at Bletchley Park's National Museum of ComputingThe public can help fund a new gallery for the world's first programmable computer, credited with playing a vital part in thwarting Nazi communications during World War II.22 February 2012
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Article Daria Martin explores hypersensory world of synaesthesia at MK GalleryA first UK survey for American artist Daria Martin features four 16mm films, including the brand new Sensorium Tests, aiming to suggest that objects "can be sentient or animate”.16 February 2012
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Preview Digital art pioneer Manfred Mohr brings algorithmic art to Carroll / FletcherThe West End gallery holds the first UK solo show for German artist whose first exhibit of computer generated work was in 1971.27 November 2012
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News Edouard Manet's Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus saved by Ashmolean's public campaignA tenacious eight-month campaign by the Ashmolean Museum has ended in triumph, raising £7.83 million, turning Oxford into a leading centre for the study of Impressionist painting and allowing one of Manet's most important paintings to tour the nation.08 August 2012
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News Entrance examination causes Westonbirt Arboretum to launch naming competitionThe public are being invited to put forward their suggestions for the name of one of the hallowed entrances to The National Arboretum, with a lucrative prize for the winning idea.04 September 2012
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News Eyeballs and wolf skulls as Museum of Curiosity prepares to openA new vault of "weird s***" in Soho prepares to unveil penis bones carved from human skulls, skeletons, a woolly mammoth tusk and an Ice Age wolf head.09 November 2012
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News Feel like you're flying in the wind: National Trust launches 50 Things to do Before You're 11¾Overseen by five "Elite Rangers" going by names including The Bug Catcher and Den Boy, the Trust launches a new scheme to get kids playing in the great outdoors.16 April 2012