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Museums at Night 2014
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Museums at Night 2014 gets underway

The sixth edition of Museums at Night begins this evening with museums, galleries and heritage sites throughout the UK taking part and playing host to various leading visual artists.

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Bury Sculpture Centre 1
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Bury Sculpture Centre: cutbacks, controversy and town’s new art venue

The recently opened Bury Sculpture Centre is sited in two large rooms that until recently were part of the Lancashire town’s central library. But while the move has prompted protests from local people, the centre’s instigator insists it is not a case of library services being cut to make way for a new art space.

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Topping Out, Bauhaus Master’s Houses
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NOW SHOWING #44: The week’s top exhibitions

Drawings inspired by images from magazines, books and the Internet, a sound and sculpture installation made in response to a gallery’s architecture, and private histories laid bare through a series of photographic compositions – this week’s selection includes exhibitions in Edinburgh, Wakefield and Manchester.

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Float complex
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Artists talking: this month’s top ten blogs

This month’s top ten Artists talking blogs sees the first, second and third slots remain the same, but with new entries by Simon Fell, Nick Kaplony and Niki Dennis there’s plenty of jostling for attention.

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Mat Chivers, Sarah E Goode and Tom Hair, Home, patinated bronze, 2014
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Crisis Commission opens

Newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists feature in two-part fundraising exhibition for homelessness charity Crisis.

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Yinka Shonibare
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HOUSE festival review: a big deal for visual arts in Brighton

The headline show at this year’s House festival in Brighton & Hove is Yinka Shonibare’s installation of 10,000 reclaimed books at Brighton Museum and Gallery. But as our reviewer discovers, there’s also a satisfying journey of discovery to be had around the festival’s more unconventional spaces.

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PICTURED #23: Eamonn Doyle, i

Quiet observations of passersby in Parnell Square, Dublin form the basis of Eamonn Doyle’s self-published, i, an odd but captivating take on the tradition of street photography.

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Polari Mission, Bury Museum, Bury.
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NOW SHOWING #43: The week’s top exhibitions

This week’s highlights include an attempt to save the endangered language of Polari, a show that uncovers how governments, intelligence agencies and corporations are using social media and drone technologies, and an exhibition that unpicks the enduring love affair between artists and nature.

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Photo: Claire Reddleman
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Tweet the dawn: online artwork, please RT

To celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day on Sunday, the collaborative online artwork #dawnchorus365 will be creating its own virtual dawn chorus on Twitter. We find out more from one of the artists involved.

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