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Kader Attia Room 20, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris 25 May – 19 August 2012 Kader Attia has been invited to present, in the permanent collection of the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de ...

Picasso at Play This exhibition is an intimate and revealing glimpse of Picasso at home as a playful father, husband, lover, host and friend. The photographs by Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and their son Antony were taken during their frequent visits...

Text and sound will be used to explore the idea of ‘endings’ in a new project to be exhibited at Slumgothic’s deconsecrated church, x-church, in Gainsborough by University of Lincoln academic Professor Steve Dutton in collaboration wi...

Deadline for submissions for The Threadneedle Prize is 12 noon, Wednesday 23 May. As the UK’s most prominent competition for figurative and representational painting and sculpture, the prize has been increased to £30,000. This ma...

The Quest Gallery in Bath UK is showing a major retrospective of drawings, paintings and sculpture by Michael Kenny RA, until 16 June 2012. Michael Kenny was born in Liverpool in 1941, the son of an engineer. He studied at Liverpool Art school, ...

The Museum and Heritage Awards presented the Highly Commended Award for Best Entrepreneurial attraction to Turner Contemporary for the Artworks project. The trophy is awarded to the museum or heritage attraction which best demonstrates an opport...

A billboard advert for The Electric Bar & Restaurant featuring an unusual view of Lincoln, designed by two University of Lincoln students, is unveiled today, Friday 18 May. Maria Sousa Machado (20) and Sam Barber (21) won a competition, o...

The independent charity Historic Royal Palaces re-opened the doors of Kensington Palace to the public on 26 March 2012 after a £12 million project to restore and refurbish the palace and gardens in celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s Diam...

The Science Museum is to showcase the ‘Universe of Sound’ - a major new digital installation which sees a virtual Philharmonia Orchestra taking up residence in the Science Museum for more than six weeks from 23 May - 8 July 2012. It is also ...

The funding target of £45m for the Tate Britain Millbank Project has been achieved, Tate announced today. The scheme to conserve and upgrade a number of Tate Britain’s beautiful historic galleries, open up the Millbank atrium spaces, and cre...

Presenting visions of imagined worlds that investigate our relationship with communication and power – work by Tim Phillips and Adam Dix will be on view at Sumarria Lunn Gallery in Mayfair from 25 May to 30 June 2012. Bringing together the w...

Turner Contemporary was one year old on 16 April 2012. In the gallery’s first year 496,554 visitors passed through the doors, more than treble the prediction for the first year of operation. Turner Contemporary generated an additional &pou...

Prominent contemporary artist David Batchelor, along with Tim Brown & Anna Deamer, Robin Blackledge, Deb Bowness, Caroline Le Breton, Helene Kazan are working to alter theartistic landscape of Brighton, UK in its annual visual art festival . ...

The next generation of young creative professionals will showcase their work during an art and design festival at Nottingham Trent University. Professionals in the creative and design industries from around the UK will descend on Nottingham for the univ...

The list of UK museums and galleries left in the running for the 2012 Art Fund prize – £100,000 and the title Museum of the Year – has been whittled down to just four. The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire David Chipper...

The Royal Mint today revealed the third and final addition to its London 2012 Gold Series commemorative coin range – the ‘Stronger’ set, an exclusive trio of coins inspired by the ancient Olympic Games crafted in fine 22 carat gold. ...

At Art Melbourne (24–27 May) innovative modern art curators Coates and Scarry will be offering affordable art from artists they represent. The works incorporate pagan imagery, street art, folk art, human and animal mixed manifestations, c...

21 May – 16 June 2012 Private View: Saturday 19 May, 6-8pm Kristin Vestgård says that her paintings are the ‘voice of (her) silence’. The paintings stand alone, in their own quiet stillness and beauty becoming sensiti...

Tower of London Archaeology Weekend, Riverside Wharf Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May 2012 11.00 - 16.00 (foreshore open according to tides, see below) Come down to the historic stretch of the Thames by the infamous Traitors Gate...

Museum of London to receive over £650,000 from Arts Council England Arts Council England is to give the Museum of London a funding award of £650,190 as part of the museum development fund. Eight other regional museums and partnershi...

David Shrigley's intelligent and entertaining show at London's Hayward Gallery is due to close on Monday 13 May, so catch it this weekend. Read our review by Rosalind Ormiston (May Cassone ) and see the video that accompanies it.

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin , are showing work by a number of their artists at the Hong Kong International Artfair, 2012. Artists showing are: Phil Collins
 Mark Francis
 Liam Gillick
 David Godbold
 Isabel No...

Join Birkbeck College, London University for Arts Week 2012, running from Monday 14 to Friday 18 May. The week will include lectures, readings, concerts, film screenings, taster courses, performances and panel discussions and is our annual showcase of ...

A new exhibition about the inspiration, history and creativity behind London transport maps opens on Friday 18 May 2012. Mind the Map: inspiring art, design and cartography will draw on the Museum’s outstanding map collection to explore the t...

A new installation at York Art Gallery's contemporary art space York St Mary’s by Laura Belém 11 May - 4 November 2012 A thousand cast glass bells evoking a visual quality of water will be suspended in the nave of ...

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 Luxury operator offering savings on autumn art tours Cox & Kings is the appointed travel partner for the Royal Academy of Arts for 2012. On behalf of the Friends of the Royal Academy, the luxury tour oper...

Nomination for the Student Academy Awards, the highest global accolade A film written, filmed, produced and directed by a team of students from the University of Westminster’s Film and Television Production BA has been shortlisted at t...

After a year of painstaking artistry and craftsmanship, a 30-ft sailing boat fashioned from hundreds of donated wooden objects will be launched near Chichester, England on Monday 7 May 2012. This floating collage of memories, The Boat Project ,...

The Harvard Art Museums present ‘Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print’, an exhibition that centres on the artist’s signature ‘crosshatch’ works in the Harvard Art Museums collections and expl...