“Art doesn’t need to be in an elaborate frame on the wall of a gallery,” says Harriet Loffler, curator of The Women’s Art Collection at Murray Edwards College. “In fact,” she says, “art in ordinary spaces can change the way we see the world.”
Nabil Ali is discovering the natural colours hidden within the berries, blooms and bark found in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden – including from a very special tree.
A major new exhibition explores Cambridge's role in slavery, the people it affected and their resistance to it.
Students from Castle School have collaborated with Kettle’s Yard gallery to develop a new installation designed to amplify student voices.
As a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores human touch through 4,000 years of art, Cambridge researchers explain why this sense is so important in their own work.
Joanna Page has been exploring how work by Latin American artists can help to bring humanity back into a relationship with nature and give us hope for the planet’s future.
Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence’s oldest and most important churches, San Pier Maggiore, 240 years after it was demolished.
A bold new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard brings together mysterious treasures from thirteen University of Cambridge collections to strip away the cult of the artist and challenge how we value art.
In 1941, the Nazis banned Emil Nolde from painting, for life. For the past 50 years, many Germans have viewed him as the persecuted artist but now a major exhibition in Berlin, co-curated by a Cambridge historian, has shattered this myth and sent shock waves through the country.
New exhibition puts the University's collections of two leading figures in Modern British Art into context for the first time.
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