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    London’s new Centre for Music? Don’t hold your breath…

    The delay to the London Symphony Orchestra’s planned new home is growing. And unrest in Iran could trouble a V&A show Wanted: a philanthropist to cough up about £145m towards London’s proposed Centre for Music. For that amount – about half the total cost of what will be the London Symphony Orchestra’s new home – […] More

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    Inside the odyssey: taking a closer look at Stanley Kubrick’s 2001

    At an expansive new exhibition in New York, the director’s defining science fiction opus is explored in detail with help from those who made it with him Though the calendar reads 2020 we’re still waiting for the future promised in 2001. Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, created concurrently with Arthur C Clarke’s novel, is recognized as […] More

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    Attenborough opens Turner display in artist’s former London home

    Sir David Attenborough says exhibition of Thames oil paintings at restored Sandycombe Lodge pays ‘proper respect’ to artist Oil paintings by JMW Turner have gone on display in the artist’s former west London home for the first time since 1826. The exhibition, at the meticulously restored Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham, which was designed by Turner […] More

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    12 of the best city museums in Europe: readers’ travel tips

    Our tipsters reveal brilliant museums from Reykjavík to Pristina, shining a light on everything from dinosaurs and Vikings to Mozart and the history of cinema The collection is breathtaking – true colour photographs commissioned by the banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn in the early 20th century and taken all over the world. The idea was […] More

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    Arctic treasures exposed by melting ice to go on display

    Items made from 28,000-year-old mammoth tusks among artefacts at British Museum Rare 28,000-year-old archaeological finds excavated from rapidly thawing ground in Siberia are to go on display for the first time at the British Museum as part of an exhibition on the history of the Arctic and its people. Sewing needles and jewellery made from […] More

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    Paris museum hires Instagram artist-in-residence

    Jean-Philippe Delhomme will depict an artist as a social media user every week for the Musée d’Orsay One of France’s most celebrated and august art institutions has taken a novel approach to embracing technology while breathing new life into its collection – by installing an Instagram artist-in-residence who imagines the social media accounts of famous […] More