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Bowes Museum acquires "sparkling" Flipart copies of Venetian paintings by Pietro Longhi 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Two exquisite depictions of 18th century life, The Lover of a Venetian Lady and The Encounter of a Procurator with his Wife at Ridotto, head for Durham thanks to The Art Fund.
Turner's Twickenham home to be restored with HLF backing 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Heritage Lottery Fund backs restoration of JMW Turner’s country villa in Twickenham as Turner's House Trust launches a £2 Bicentennial Appeal this autumn to save the house and restore it to Turner’s o...
Prodigal photographer Mina Ahmed captures a Positive Light in Gallery Oldham show 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Victorian architecture under moonlit skies as photographer Mina Ahmed takes an evocative look at her hometown of Oldham in a new show at the town's central gallery.
Nocturnal Creatures at the Natural History Museum at Tring 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Are you a night owl? Find out more about echolocation, heat detection, electricity, bioluminescence and other amazing ways in which animals have evolved to survive.
Lines in the Landscape at the National Railway Museum in York 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The National Railway Museum is about to host this year's Lines in the Landscape award from the the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition, along with past entries and previously unseen images ...
Jake and Dinos Chapman create an Exquisite Corpse at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Partly made with audiences during Museums at Night 2013, the Chapmans' exhibition in Hastings features composite creatures made with a game played by the Surrealists.
Swiss theme and Bowie influencers for 19th Encounters film festival in Bristol 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Returning to Bristol for six days, Encounters features installations, live music and a strand based around the stereotype of the Swiss psyche.
People watching or spying? Mass Observation at The Photographer's Gallery 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Featuring photos by Humphrey Spender and John Hinde, Mass Observation: This is Your Photo reveals what a radical experiment in social science, art and documentry can show us about human curiosity.
Marguerite Howarth: Artist of Surrey (1908-2001) at The Lightbox in Woking 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Lancashire-born and Yorkshire-tutored, Marguerite Howarth became renowned for creating elegant watercolour depictions of Surrey after moving there during the 1940s.
Banquets, village fairs and giant cakes in Southbank Centre's Festival of Neighbourhood finale 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The Southbank Centre's communally-minded summer festival will conclude with three weekends of wonder.
