One is a Turner prize-winning artist, the other is a well-known journalist and broadcaster but both have been brought together by a seemingly evergreen gripe…
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A celebration of birds in Lego and ink – in pictures
Roy Scholten has been interested in birds ever since he can remember. In his 50 Birds series, the Netherlands-based artist and printmaker has created handmade…
View More A celebration of birds in Lego and ink – in picturesGift memberships: the best UK gallery, museum, cinema and theatre deals this Christmas
If you are looking for Christmas gifts that are less about stuff and more about experiences, an arts organisation membership could be just the ticket.…
View More Gift memberships: the best UK gallery, museum, cinema and theatre deals this ChristmasLeeds art installation helps children grapple with fourth spatial dimension
It is unlikely the children clambering over the world’s first 4D climbing frame had any idea they were helping to explore higher dimensional geometry, irregular…
View More Leeds art installation helps children grapple with fourth spatial dimensionAstronomy Photographer of the Year – winners and finalists
New Class of Galactic Nebulae Around the Star YY Hya by Marcel Drechsler Stars and nebulae winner – A team of amateur astronomers, led by…
View More Astronomy Photographer of the Year – winners and finalistsLGBTQ+ military charity backs proposal for Alan Turing statue on fourth plinth
An LGBTQ+ armed forces charity has backed proposals to erect a statue of the second world war codebreaker Alan Turing on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth…
View More LGBTQ+ military charity backs proposal for Alan Turing statue on fourth plinth‘Ancient’ vase repatriated from UK to Greece faces fresh forgery claim
Days after Greece announced the recovery of hundreds of antiquities from a disgraced British dealer, its ministry of culture faces the accusation that one of…
View More ‘Ancient’ vase repatriated from UK to Greece faces fresh forgery claimInto the Void: the four-storey Barbican shell set to become a £3.5m home
For years, every day on his way home from work, Christian Keesing passed a vast empty unit within the foot of the Grade II-listed Barbican…
View More Into the Void: the four-storey Barbican shell set to become a £3.5m homeSaving the dragon’s blood: how an island refused to let a legendary tree die out
Just after 4am on the Diksam plateau, near the centre of Yemen’s Socotra Island, a loudspeaker stirs local people from their sleep with the day’s…
View More Saving the dragon’s blood: how an island refused to let a legendary tree die outAn other-worldly art project: the artists furnishing a Martian house
There is a “Martian guitar” manufactured out of recycled pieces of wood and metal with an amp fashioned from a coffee pot. A surprisingly comfortable…
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