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100 Years Of The Suffragettes Celebrated Through Visual Art
On 14 June 1913, 6,000 women took to the streets to remember a pivotal activist and martyr. They were walking in solidarity from Victoria to...
New Exhibition To Mark The Summer Solstice At Waterside Contemporary
To mark the summer solstice - an astronomical moment of repose and contemplation, and the high point of the short English summer - waterside...
New Exhibition Of Allen Ginsberg And The Beat Generations Opens
A new exhibition centring around the Poet, performer and antimilitarist, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) opens in Metz, Rennes near Lille, France...
Kapoor, Perry and Serota Honoured In Queen’s Birthday List
Anish Kapoor, the 59 year old, Indian-born British sculptor has been Knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list. Kapoor said; "I am honoured and...
DCMS Announces 8% Cut In Arts Spending For 2015-2016
The (DCMS) Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced an 8% cut in spending for the period 2015-2016. The deal, made with the Treasury is...
SHUBBAK CONTEMPORARY ARAB CULTURE ARTS FESTIVAL UNVEILED FOR LONDON
Shubbak is a window on contemporary Arab culture, with 15 days of art exhibitions, concerts, films, theatre, family events, talks and debate in...
Massimiliano Gioni’s New Dialectic At The 55th Venice Biennale
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace, this is the title for the 55th International Venice Biennial of contemporary Art, curated by...
Tate Modern Film Curator Stuart Comer To Head Media and Performance At MoMA
Stuart Corner, who has been curator of film at Tate Modern since January 2004, has been appointed the new curator of Media and Preformance at MoMA...
Queen Elizabeth Portrait By Ralph Heiman Vandalised By Protester
A recent portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, unveiled for the diamond jubilee in Westminster Abbey has been defaced with spray paint, by a...
House of Peroni Pop Up Defines Contemporary Italian Culture In London
Peroni Nastro Azzurro is creating 'The House of Peroni', an event to celebrate the new wave of visionaries defining contemporary Italian culture....
Identity And Migration Themes within Contemporary Art Explored In New Exhibition
The Ben Uri gallery is presenting the exhibition, Looking In: Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae. This is the first in a series...
New Photography Exhibition Explores The Impact Of DNA
The discovery of DNA was arguably the most significant breakthrough of modern science. From DNA fingerprinting to personalised genomes the...