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The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Bompas and Parr go for Museums at Night

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Those jelly scallywags Bompas and Parr are off to one of three venues for Museums at Night - and you get to pick which one you want it to be.

The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Jon McGregor goes for Museums at Night

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Turner Contemporary in Margate, Discovery Point in Dundee and The Polar Museum in Cambridge bid for an evening with one of the country's finest authors.

The Connect10 Vote: You choose where Simon Roberts goes for Museums at Night

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

You get to vote which destination you want the renowned photographer to turn his lens on for a very special event as part of Museums at Night 2012.

John Piper’s Mountains of Wales return to National Museum Cardiff

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Paintings and drawings from a private collection on show at National Museum Cardiff reveal John Piper's intense period of recording the mountains of Wales in a group of works which are now regarded as one of his greatest achievements.

Monet, Picasso and Chagall among artists as Alon Zakaim opens Dover Street gallery

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Five years after launching its Cork Street home on the former site of Peggy Guggenheim's first London gallery, Alon Zakaim opens a second London space.

Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and Frankenstein in Wolfson Gallery's Outrageously Modern show

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

A display of salacious magazines in Durham features extracts from Charles Dickens novels, TS Eliot poems and "all that was bizarre and queer" more than a century ago.

Rachel Whiteread to create Tree of Life frieze above doors of Whitechapel Gallery

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The former Turner Prize-winning sculptor will decorate the outside of the Grade II-listed gallery in a celebration of architecture and art using casts of its existing features.

Rescue capsule which saved Chilean miners on show as Fénix 2 arrives at Science Museum

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The huge, oxygen-enhanced capsule which famously saved a group of Chilean miners in a miraculous 2010 mission has gone on display at the Science Museum in London.

Review: Lucian Freud Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

From the sublime and simmering to the sensual and shocking, Lucian Freud Portraits at London's National Portrait Gallery features 130 works charting seven decades of work.

Vault takes over Tunnels in "greatest arts festival melting pot London has ever seen"

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Set in a performance space beneath Waterloo Station, a new three-week festival run by the Old Vic Theatre brings art, orchestras, silent opera, poetry, puppetry and more to The Old Vic Tunnels in London.

French artist Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves's Geometry brightens Brentford with ray of light

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Mayor of London Boris Johnson hails a "dramatic beacon for Brentford" as planners boost the town's status as a "significant cultural destination" with a major installation.

In Pictures: The power of No Redemption at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Photographer Keith Pattison depicts a community's defence of their way of life during the miners' strikes of 1984 and 1985 in a visually powerful exhibition in Yorkshire.

Royal weddings and anti-cuts marches from Oona Hassim at Woolff Gallery

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Using figurative and abstract techniques to turn huge crowds into blurs, up-and-coming oil painter Oona Hassim enjoys a solo show at the Woolff Gallery in London.

Science Museum announces arrival of Suzanne Treister's "gloriously detailed" Hexen 2.0

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

British artist Suzanne Treister will fill the Bridge gallery at London's Science Museum with intricate diagrams mapping technology and a set of 78 reimagined Tarot cards.

Hamish Fulton: Walk and Turner and the Elements lift the spirits at Turner Contemporary

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

JMW Turner's fascination with the four elements combine with Hamish Fulton's fearless journeys across the world in a powerful pair of shows at the Margate gallery.

Last Chance to See: Beholder - an exhibition on beauty at the Talbot Rice gallery in Edinburgh

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

To celebrate the 300th anniversary of David Hume's birth the Talbot Rice Gallery at the University of Edinburgh is showing an eclectic collection of work inspired by his philosophy on beauty.

Longlist for Art Fund Prize Museum of the Year 2012 announced

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Some of the major new venues around the country - including Bristol's M Shed, the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow, Margate's Turner Contemporary and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - are named on the longlist for the £100,000 prize.

"Most important meteorite in 100 years" gives Natural History Museum glimpse of life on Mars

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The Natural History Museum has bought the largest meteorite ever to be added to its collection, found in the aftermath of a blaze above the skies of Morocco in 2011.

Dickens 2012: On the Trail of Charles Dickens

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

From the Historic Dockyard where his father worked as a Navy clerk to the Southwark Prison he once stayed in, follow our trail to follow the life of Charles Dickens.

Her Maj: Cartoon Museum heralds Diamond Jubilee with 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The curator of the new show at The Cartoon Museum in London, tells us about some star portraits from the minds of Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and their contemporaries, taken from the likes of Private Eye and the Guardian.