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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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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 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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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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Kettle's Yard is back

12 Feb 2018

As Kettle's Yard opens its doors following a two-year, multi-million pound redevelopment and transformation of its gallery spaces, the work of 38...

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Seventy years of Indian independence celebrated with summer exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum

06 Jun 2017

Two exhibitions and a new book have launched the Fitzwilliam Museum's celebration of the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence. The displays...

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Before and after detail of the Virgin Mary from the 'Adoration of the Shepherds'

Saving a renaissance masterpiece: Fitzwilliam Museum wins award for decade-long restoration

19 May 2017

A ten-year research and restoration project to save one of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Renaissance masterpieces was rewarded with a major national...

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Ben Nicholson, 1928 (Banks Head – Cumbrian Landscape).

Kettle’s Yard on the move to celebrate 50th anniversary

22 Oct 2016

Works by some of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries – including Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, LS Lowry and Helen Frankenthaler – are...

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Exhibition reunites artworks from Captain Scott’s final expedition – a century on

01 Aug 2016

A new exhibition has reunited the iconic photography of Herbert Ponting with the watercolours of Edward Wilson – more than a century after the two...

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Shrine in Tinghir, southern Morocco

Bringing Berber empires into focus as contributors to Islamic culture

06 Jul 2016

The Almoravid and Almohad empires flourished in the western Mediterranean of the 11th and 12th centuries. Despite controlling vast tracts of land...

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