Exhibition notice: Fashion in the Mirror, Self-Reflection in Fashion Photography at the Photographers' Gallery, London, until September 14 2008. Fashion in the Mirror shows how snappers picturing the latest trends often turned the camera at least partly upon themselves -
Two major public art commissions premiered at Stratford Tube Station on July 17 2008. The new works, by Lucy Harrison and Alan Kane, will be the first in an ongoing series of contemporary projects from Art on the Underground, which
Photo above - William Tickle, age 17, of the 9th Battalion, Essex Regiment, was killed during the Battle of the Somme, in July 1916. His mother's handwritten note on the photograph, taken a few days before his death, describes him
Wysing Arts Centre outside Cambridge have invited International artist/architect team Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser to design and build - in just six weeks - an 'amphitheatre', working with the local community using discarded, found and recycled materials. Gallery organisers
Exhibition notice: Impressionism and Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, July 19 - October 12 2008. The National Gallery of Scotland's big summer show for 2008 is Impressionism and Scotland, with over 100 paintings, pastels and watercolours exploring the Scottish taste
Exhibition review: Dan James enjoys a curious matching of science and art from post-war Britain at the Wellcome Collection, London. It would be interesting to know what Oscar Wilde would have thought about the latest temporary exhibition at the Wellcome
Jimi Hendrix' burnt 1965 Fender Stratocaster is expected to fetch $1million in an auction sale on September 4 2008 at London's Idea Generation Gallery. It was in March 1967, at the Finsbury Astoria, London that Jimi Hendrix blitzed a UK
Exhibition review: Noelia Martinez Castellanos enjoys the riches of Renaissance Italy - in Edinburgh. Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo Da Vinci are four of the greatest Renaissance artists - but they are, of course, not the only ones. Many more
Proposals to revise Stonehenge World Heritage Site Management Plan and to improve the monument's landscape setting and visitor centre in time for the 2012 Olympics were unveiled for public consultation on July 15 by Margaret Hodge, Culture Minister, and Lord
Event notice - Publish and Be Damned happens on August 3 2008 at Rochelle School in Shoreditch Publish and be Damned (PaBD) is an annual one-day self-publishing fair in London, happening this year on Sunday, August 3 2008. Visitors to
Artist Anna Dumitriu has been working with staff and students at Varndean School in Brighton on a project called Normal Flora. Students took swabs of microbes all over the school - from the drinking fountain to school computers, and even
Exhibition review: 24HM writer Marian Cleary and Harry Semple, our Year 10 intern, enjoy The Science of Survival - Your Planet Needs You, on now at the Science Museum, London , until Sunday Nov 2, 2008. A huge picture of
Over one hundred museums, libraries and archives across the country have signed up to host activities this summer and autumn to mark the start of the UK's Olympic journey. The activities - part of the Museum, Library and Archive Council's
Folkestone might not be heaven, but that depends very much on how you interpret one of 22 international artists who have created public art installations for the first Folkestone Triennial. Nathan Coley's ambiguous illuminated text sculpture, 'Heaven Is A Place
The National Gardens Scheme will open 3,600 gardens to the public on Saturday July 19, to raise money for cancer and caring charities, as well as the National Trust's garden Careership programme.
A great little website featuring events and activities run at Whitehawk Primary School in Brighton on life in the Second World War on the home front. Launched this week by Screen Archive South East, at the University of Brighton, in
