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Johannes Vermeer, A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman 'The Music Lesson' c.1662-1665

Vermeer breaks Fitzwilliam Museum records

05 Jan 2012

Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence has achieved record-breaking attendance figures at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, with more than 130,000...

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...

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...

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...

Andrew Nairne, new Director at Kettle's Yard

Kettle’s Yard appoints new Director

18 Aug 2011

Kettle’s Yard is delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Nairne as its Director in succession to Michael Harrison.

Elizabeth Siddal as Ophelia by Tom de Freston, Leverhulme Artist in Residence, University of Cambridge

“I must be present at your conference”

04 Aug 2011

The Cambridge Shakespeare Conference 2011 will bring together eminent scholars, artists, performers and educationists from a wide spectrum of...

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...

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...

Diana Bell and Cambridge school children with the Big Book outside Cambridge University Library

The big book visits the big library

12 May 2011

It may already be home to more than seven million books, but Cambridge University Library is to host one of the world’s biggest books from May 19-21...