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Heritage Lottery Fund unveils small grants programme to help commemorate First World War

Tue, 15 May 2103 00:00:00 GMT

The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced details of a new £6 million small grants programme for smaller community projects marking the Centenary of the First World War.

Museums at Night Report: Gavin Turk, pyramid power and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Sun, 17 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Artist Gavin Turk's occult new sculptures are among the after-hours attractions in the West country. Mark Sheerin explores the power of pyramids.

Ashmolean Museum acquires Millais' famous Pre-Raphaelite portrait of John Ruskin

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The Ashmolean Museum has permanently acquired John Everett Millais' famous portrait of John Ruskin thanks to the Arts Council Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

Look/13 festival takes top photographers to Liverpool

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

August Sander, Rankin and Martin Parr are a few of the artists in a photography festival taking over Liverpool's diverse array of galleries for the next month.

Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth at Oxford's Bodleian Library

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Curators have worked with authors Philip Pullman, Alan Garner and Susan Cooper for a new show at the ancient library where JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis also once worked.

Museums at Night 2013: Venues and visitors reflect on a successful weekend

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

From Somerset to Cumbria, we look back at some of the reaction to more than 500 events held for Museums at Night 2013, including appearances by leading artists.

Museums at Night Report: A twilight tour of the second motte of Lewes Castle

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Museums at Night wouldn't be complete without a night-time tour of a medieval castle. Lewes Castle in East Sussex duly obliged, Culture24's Jenni Davdson went along for the ride.

Museums at Night Report: An audience with Queen Victoria at Leighton House

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Those Victorians knew how to party...Ruth Hazard has a brush with Queen Victoria during an immersive Museums at Night at Lord Leighton's opulent gaff, Leighton House.

Museums at Night Report: LightNight, Liverpool's city-wide spree of late night culture

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Ben Miller reports from Liverpool where the city's Light Night reveals how a festival can really galvanise a city's imaginative after-hours culture.

Museums at Night Report: The Horniman Garden Party with rAndom International

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The premiere of a new work by light magicians rAndom International hit the headlines at London's Horniman. There was music, dancing and poetry. Gin also materialised.

Museums at Night Report: A Victorian Delight at London's 18 Stafford Terrace

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Museums at Night created a rare chance to sneak inside a 19th century London house, complete with waiting Victorian residents. Richard Moss went to take a look.

Museums at Night Report: Bat walking through the scented woodlands at Hatchlands Park

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

For Museums at Night Amy Strike heads through the bluebell-scented woodlands of Hatchalnds Park for a bat walk in search of Barbastelles and Pipistrelles...

Museums at Night Report: Behind the scenes at the Faber and Faber Archive

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Ruth Hazard joins five lucky Museums at Night competition winners who visited the fabled Faber Archive in Bloomsbury for literary tales, readings and rare manuscripts.

Museums at Night Report: David Blandy's Biter: Hip-Hop and Freud at the Whitechapel

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

In Freud’s study, amid an unblinking collection of classical and Egyptian artefacts, David Blandy delivers lines of broken Hip-Hop verse to the psychoanalyst’s unoccupied seat.

Museums at Night 2013: Gloves are off for Scarborough Art Gallery

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Curators and artists will face each other off in a ring as part of Museums at Night in Scarborough, where poetry, photography exhibitions and more are also on the cards.

Museums at Night is here: the annual festival of after-hours cultural openings begins

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

What will you do? Museums at Night, Culture24's festival of after-hours openings in the UK's cultural venues, begins. There are 582 events taking place at 411 venues right across the UK.

Museums at Night tonight! Paupers and performance inside Southwell's Workhouse

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Costumed drama will be at its most atmospheric in the 19th century Workhouse at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, where actors are waiting to tell stories within former schoolrooms, bedrooms, dormitories and kitchens.

PM Gallery showcases Second Nature: The influence of environment on fashion in

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Moving off the catwalk and into the wilderness, PM Gallery presents a journey through fashion’s love affair with nature, featuring designers Donna Karan, Giles Deacon and Zandra Rhodes.

Catlin Prize shortlist of nine makes for slick show in Londonewcastle Project Space

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The dark cube-like Shoreditch gallery's new exhibition is putting the pick of recent graduates in their best light. Mark Sheerin takes a look.

Gasworks gallery presents Resolution 978 HD: An Exhibition by Model Court

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Model Court, a collective of visual and conceptual artists, provides a striking interrogation of the controversial use of technology in universal jurisdiction.