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Museum of Zoology displays ceramic art to explore Earth's 'breaking points'

21 Jul 2021

The museum's reopening exhibition uses the fragility of fired clay to throw attention back on to ecological decline, ecosystem collapse and...

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Two of 38 teapots found on the site of Clapham's coffeeshop in Cambridge

A tale of 38 teapots: an intimate portrait of 18th-century sociability

20 Oct 2014

At a seminar tomorrow (22 October 2014) archaeologist Craig Cessford will talk about the challenges of working on ‘clearance deposits’. He will use...

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Schooner and Icebergs (c.1928)

Kettle's Yard international exhibition "Art & Life 1920-1931"

10 Feb 2014

A major international exhibition of work from two of the UK’s most important 20th Century painters, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, starts on Saturday 15...

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Edmund de Waal installation at CRASSH

Potted histories

23 Jan 2013

Artist and writer Edmund de Waal – known for his work in porcelain as well as his best-selling memoir 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes' - will be giving...

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Leg and torso from the model of a four-legged animal, possibly a deer or horse. This is one of 36 ceramic items recovered from Vela Spila, Croatia.

Archaeologists uncover Palaeolithic ceramic art

24 Jul 2012

Ceramics found on the coast of the Adriatic attest to a hitherto unknown artistic culture which flourished during the last Ice Age, thousands of...

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