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Harriet Loffler in front of painting

The curator reframing our experiences of art

17 May 2024

“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...

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Nabil Ali in the Botanic Garden

The artist who made ink from Newton's Apple Tree

16 Oct 2023

Nabil Ali is discovering the natural colours hidden within the berries, blooms and bark found in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden – including...

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Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

21 Sep 2023

A major new exhibition explores Cambridge's role in slavery, the people it affected and their resistance to it.

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Two students creating art installation drawing on glass

Kettle’s Yard celebrates pioneering art project created with local school pupils

02 Feb 2023

Students from Castle School have collaborated with Kettle’s Yard gallery to develop a new installation designed to amplify student voices.

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The power of touch

17 Jun 2021

As a major Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition explores human touch through 4,000 years of art, Cambridge researchers explain why this sense is so...

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The researcher finding inspiration for the planet’s future in Latin American art

23 Mar 2021

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...

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Digital resurrection: bringing one of Italy's most important lost churches back to life

03 Aug 2020

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...

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Artist: Unknown

09 Jul 2019

A bold new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard brings together mysterious treasures from thirteen University of Cambridge collections to strip away the cult...

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Exposing a Nazi: The exhibition destroying a myth

13 Jun 2019

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...

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Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson & James Pryde

10 May 2019

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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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Cambridge in the 2019 New Year honours list

28 Dec 2018

Members of collegiate Cambridge recognised for outstanding contributions to society in science, education, engineering and art

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EDGE III by Antony Gormley.

Antony Gormley exhibition opens at Kettle’s Yard

22 May 2018

Renowned sculptor Antony Gormley has today become the first solo artist to exhibit in the new galleries of Kettle’s Yard with the opening of ‘SUBJECT...

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