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Bernini; or, Art & Life— What Do They Have to Do with Each Other?
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"Separate & Together: Opposites in the Art and Life of Edward Hopper" by Dorothy Koppelman
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BY Culture24
15.04.2016
Anglo-Saxon graves and Neolithic pits and monuments found at MOD army base where anti-tank weapons were tested
The graves of men, women and children could have contained members of the same families on Salisbury Plain This workbox was found in the grave of a woman on Ministry of Defence land in Bulford ©...
BY Culture24
16.04.2016
Shamans packed skulls with clay and burnt brains inside them in prehistoric Europe
Modified red deer heads from the Early Holocene provide the earliest known evidence of shamanic costume. Now archaeologists have recreated them This is how a burnt crania, containing cooked brain,...
BY Culture24
03.05.2016
Win a copy of Face: Shape and Angle, Helen Muspratt Photographer
As Pallant House Gallery shows the photographs of pioneering photographer Helen Muspratt we have copies of her monograph to give away to lucky winners Face: Shape and Angle - Helen Muspratt,...
Museo de Chiclana
14.04.2016
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The building that now houses the Museum is known as the Briones house, named for the family that long owned and inhabited it. This 18th century building, its façade a beautiful example of civil...
BY Culture24
14.04.2016
Artist uses X-ray scans of King Richard III's skull to create a forensic record of his remains
Alexander de Cadenet has used X-rays of the skull of Richard III to create a series of vanitas artworks more than 500 years after the king's death © Alexander de Cadenet / University of Leicester In...
BY Culture24
11.04.2016
Curator's Choice: Lovers, guns and African goddesses as Sokari Douglas Camp takes inspiration from Botticelli
Taking a leaf from the revisions of Botticelli, Sokari Douglas Camp’s new works breathes life into antique forms, says October Gallery’s Gerard Houghton Sokari Douglas Camp, Europe Supported by...
BY Culture24
11.04.2016
Huge pink granite Pictish stone moves into Scotland's oldest independent museum
Between the 3rd and 9th centuries, Scotland was the place to go if you wanted to see artists working in stone Try the 3D model of the Craigellachie Stone The Picts loved to etch into huge boulders...
Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales "Carlos Ameghino" de Mercedes
10.04.2016
El Ordenamiento Territorial y la gestión del Patrimonio Cultural del partido de Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
El Ordenamiento Territorial y la gestión del patrimonio cultural del partido de Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. REDSociales 3(1): 200-213. ISSN 2362-4434....
BY Culture24
10.04.2016
A guaíza: The tiny sculpture of a face found by archaeologists at an indigenous Dominican Republic house
Described by its finders as "enigmatic", this sculpted face was buried by a house in the Dominican Republic, as archaeologist Alice Samson, from the University of Leicester, explains © Courtesy...
BY Culture24
07.04.2016
New copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio emerges on Scotland's Isle of Bute
A prized Shakespeare First Folio, once owned by an 18th century editor, bears the fingerprints of its former owners © Mount Stuart A new copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio – the collection of 36...
BY Culture24
07.04.2016
Beasts, a salient pig, Wilfred Owen's poetry and Magna Carta: 12 of the Bodleian Library's best
The most expensive printed book ever sold at auction - sold for $14.2 million - is part of the collection at the Bodleian, where it's in fine company This souvenir comes from a women’s suffrage...
BY Culture24
06.04.2016
Object of the Week: A Polynesian fertility sculpture designed to carry a human skull and bones
This recast of A’a, at the British Museum, comes from a skull-carrying sculpture which has been shown across the world and was admired by Henry Moore © British Museum In 1821, islanders on the...
BY Culture24
06.04.2016
Mysterious Culloden skull could have belonged to battlefield casualty who was charging forward or on hands and knees
The Statistical Account for Scotland from the 1746 Battle of Culloden includes 1,794 references to locals picking up bullets and fragments of armour, seeking them out and preserving them as...
BY EUROPEANA
04.04.2016
The Latvian “nightingale” Elfrīda Pakule
Historical sound recordings are treasures that, since the end of 19 th century, inform us about musical life, about performers and about musical interpretation. We would like to tell you about one...
BY Culture24
01.04.2016
The work of a genius: Dulwich Picture Gallery to hold exhibition on artist Winifred Knights
Dulwich Picture Gallery is at it again - this time uncovering the genius that was painter Winifred Knights Winifred Knights, Self-portrait, 1920, Pencil on tracing paper © Trustees of the British...
BY Culture24
30.03.2016
Object of the Week: One of the oldest female neanderthal skulls in Britain - blood vessel folds still visible
The left and central sections of this skull were found by a local doctor in Swanscombe, Kent in 1935 and 1936. The right was discovered by archaeologists 20 years later © Trustees of the Natural...
BY Culture24
31.03.2016
Daughter of World War Two RAF hero who fled SS in Norway creates exhibition in his honour
Nicknamed Olly, a Norwegian man left his family without telling them and fled the SS to help the RAF during the Second World War. Now his story is being told in Scotland for the first time Bodil...
Museums
12.03.2018
Ready to celebrate International Museum Day 2018?
Among the celebrations to welcome the seasonal change during the month of May is International Museum Day – a highly anticipated event for the global museum community. Around 18 May, excitement will...
BY Culture24
29.03.2016
"Being Viking is a way of life": Images released of most important Viking hoard in Scotland for more than 100 years
More than ten centuries after it was buried in a field, CT scans have allowed archaeologists to release images of a hoard of 9th and 10th century treasures discovered in Galloway. Stuart Campbell,...
BY Culture24
07.04.2016
