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Illustration from the Saga of St Olaf, Flateyjarbók, Reykjavik, Iceland

Explore the scary stories of early cultures

31 Oct 2012

Don’t miss the chance to learn about the rich cultures of the early British Isles in a series of free talks and readings at the Faculty of English...

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Winifred Nicholson Roman Road (Landscape with Two Houses), 1926

Music of colour - Winifred Nicholson paintings at Kettle's Yard

28 Sep 2012

The paintings of Winifred Nicholson are the subject of the latest Artist in Focus exhibition at Kettle's Yard, which begins tomorrow and runs until...

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Artwork by Nondumiso Hlwele

Activist art reflects fight for rights of African AIDS sufferers

22 Jun 2012

A new exhibition launching at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the psychology and politics of living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa...

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Still from the film The Beaches of Agnès (2008), directed by Agnès Varda

Death and the image: an introduction to palliative filmmaking

29 May 2012

A new book by Professor Emma Wilson from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages looks at how death is addressed through modern artworks based...

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Tang Dynasty mirror

There but not there: the meaning of absence

14 May 2012

A lecture tomorrow by Professor Hung Wu is a rare opportunity to hear an eminent Chinese scholar talk about the ways in which the country’s artists...

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Christos Tsirogiannis

The dark side of the art world

20 Mar 2012

Looting of antiquities from archaeological sites is a serious crime. A fully-booked talk at Cambridge Science Festival on Thursday will unearth some...

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Clockwise from top left: Anthony and Cleopatra, Panel2, Jack, Silhouette on St-Paul's

Student photography investigates Englishness

09 Mar 2012

A new exhibition of photography by students at Cambridge opens next week, looking at original approaches to visual representations of English...

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Detail from The little Frenchman by Tal R

New wave of Danish art to be explored

22 Nov 2011

A free public lecture looking at the recent rise of the Danish contemporary art scene will take place at Churchill College on November 24, given by...

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Santas

Who colour-coded Christmas?

18 Oct 2011

The conventional colours of Christmas – red and green – are not, as many might suppose, a legacy of the Victorians. Instead, they hark back to the...

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Children's finger fluting at Rouffignac

Prehistoric pre-school

30 Sep 2011

Archaeological research reveals that 13,000 years before CBeebies hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves...

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Von Ribbentrop in St Ive's

Von Ribbentrop in St Ives

19 Jul 2011

Painter, author and filmmaker Andrew Lanyon seems to have achieved the impossible as he combines the histories of Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Von...

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Inscription on the new memorial at SPRI

SPRI memorial remembers lost Britons

13 May 2011

A memorial dedicated to Britons who lost their lives in the service of science in Antarctica has been unveiled at the Scott Polar Research Institute...

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