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New wave of Korean contemporary ceramics in White on White at the Oriental Museum
July 16, 2013 - 12:00amThe ethics of Confucian philosophy and the porcelains of the Joseon Dynasty form starting points for a "new wave" of artists from Korea in Durham.
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Culture24's top ten events from the Festival of Archaeology 2013
July 16, 2013 - 12:00amAs the annual Festival of Archaeology returns with activities across the country, we take a look at some of the best digs, tours, tales and adventures to look forward to.
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Laura Ashley: The Romantic Heroine at the Fashion Museum in Bath
July 15, 2013 - 12:00amThe Fashion Museum in Bath is heading back to the seventies – an age when the designer Laura Ashley whisked young women away to a bygone era of long flowing dresses.
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British Library and Lincoln and Salisbury Cathedrals to unite surviving Magna Cartas
July 15, 2013 - 12:00amMore than 1,000 people will be given free tickets to see the four surviving copies of Magna Carta when they are united in early 2015 - the 800th anniversary of their creation.
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Kensington Palace visits wardrobes of The Queen, Princess Diana and Princess Margaret
July 15, 2013 - 12:00amTwenty-one iconic frocks go on show in a major new exhibition, Fashion Rules, at Kensington Palace. Jenni Davidson pays it a visit.
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Miles Aldridge: I Only Want You to Love Me at London's Somerset House
July 15, 2013 - 12:00amBeautiful, fragile, pensive, anxious and lavishly uneasy, Miles Aldridge's high-glamour photos are the Stepford Wives on acid, says Kirstie Brewer.
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Last Chance to See: David Batchelor's Flatlands at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket
July 12, 2013 - 12:00amArtist David Batchelor is renowned for his love of colour, as his largest exhibition of two-dimensional works, at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery, amply demonstates.
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Photo 51 - from DNA to the Brain combines science and art at Somerset House
July 12, 2013 - 12:00amA show in the Inigo Rooms at Somerset House is inspired by the iconic image that led Crick and Watson to discover the structure of DNA 60 years ago.
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Photographer Cristina De Middel recalls Zambian mission to Mars in The Afronauts
July 12, 2013 - 12:00amAcclaimed Spanish photographer Cristina De Middel retells the little-known story of the 1964 Zambian space mission at Copper House Gallery.
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Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature at Compton Verney
July 12, 2013 - 12:00amDozens of works from Turner, Constable and their contemporaries illustrate the plein air techniques which became fashionable around 200 years ago in an exhibition drawing from the Tate collection.
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Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure at London's National Gallery
July 11, 2013 - 12:00amThe exquisite Vermeer paintings at the core of the National Gallery's display are the highlights of a show also concerned with love, death and amazing ancient instruments.
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Acclaimed Medusozoa jellyfish hung at Horniman Museum and Gardens
July 11, 2013 - 12:00amA portrait of a jellyfish, shortlisted for the photography competition accompanying the Art Fund Museum of the Year prize, has gone on public show in south London.
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New app is pure smartphone gold for Bank of England inside tour
July 11, 2013 - 12:00amThe Cash Vault and a gold room full of enormous bars and the Garden Court are a few of the sights available on a new app offering a tour of the Bank of England's home.
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Beamish Museum receives fruit and vegetables bottled by greengrocer 103 years ago
July 11, 2013 - 12:00amContainers of carrots, peas, asparagus and cherries, bottled to award-winning effect in Darlington in 1910, have been given to Durham's Beamish Museum.
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In Pictures: The Higgins Bedford opens
July 10, 2013 - 12:00amA look inside the new community art gallery and museum in Bedford, uniting three venues in a 19th century brewery and family home following a development project costing almost £6 million.
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Bold Vision: Pallant House and Julian Hartnoll Gallery admire Outsiders in Black and White
July 10, 2013 - 12:00amThere are musical vibrations amid a group of hugely talented outsider artists as London gallery Julian Hartnoll welcomes some of the stars of Pallant's Outside In scheme.
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Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots reveals striking monarch during reign
July 10, 2013 - 12:00amDespite no portraits existing of Mary, Queen of Scots from her reign in Scotland, a sculpture is allowing visitors to the National Museum of Scotland to examine her face.
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Coming into Fashion – A Century of Photography at Condé Nast
July 10, 2013 - 12:00amEdinburgh’s City Art Centre has dipped into the publisher's archives and returned with a snazzy collection of images which are in vogue, says Jenni Davidson.
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Curator's Choice: Dr Ellen McAdam on Henry VIII's bed head at The Burrell Collection
July 8, 2013 - 8:00pmThe bed head from the night of Henry VIII's 1540 marriage features a carving of the king's extremely large codpiece. Dr Ellen McAdam, of Glasgow Museums, tell us more.
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Pallant House pieces together wide-ranging retrospective for Eduardo Paolozzi
July 8, 2013 - 8:00pmCollage is a touchstone for the Chichester gallery as they show the first major retrospective since the artist's death in 2005.
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