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Exhibition Opening of Ancient Cast Collection at Freie Universität Berlin on May 11, 2017 ' 112/2017 from May 10, 2017 An exhibition of sculptures in an architectural context will open on May 11, 2017, in the Cast Collection of Ancient Sculptures.

A collection of ten new works for carillon will have their world premiere this Friday as part of a collaboration between The Australian National University (ANU) and the National Capital Authority, which manages the National Carillon in Canberra.

The University of Nottingham has delivered a project aimed at upskilling professionals working in China's screen industries.

Digital reporter bursaries available for Attenborough Centre project The Space digital reporter creative bursaries for REFRAIN, an immersive, site-specific performance in Newhaven Fort, East Sussex.

The University of Melbourne is pleased to announce the second round of successful applicants to the pioneering ACMI X co-working space in Melbourne's Arts Precinct.

In 1929, the Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan, a subsidiary of RCA, released a recording of the song 'Tokyo March,' an ode to modern life, with lines about 'dancing to jazz and drinking liqueur late into the night.

Violinists Ariana Kim and Amie Weiss and bassist Nicola Barbieri perform in July 2016 in Brescia, Italy, next to a mural created by refugees for Kim's project 'Le storie di vita nel legno.

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AUSTIN, Texas â?- Chronicling two decades of cultural exchange between Mexico and the United States, the exhibition â?'Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 1920â''1945â'' showcases examples of modern Mexican art and design.

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New treasures of The Australian National University (ANU) art collection will go on display for the first time on Friday at a major exhibition of works donated to the University's Drill Hall Gallery.

A favorite childhood pastime - swinging on the playground swing set - also may be teaching kids how to get along.

Freshman Brooke Hale plays Queenie in this year's Ram's Head Theatrical Society musical. Remaining performances are April 20-22.

Beginning with Fall Quarter 2017, UChicago will offer Poetry and the Human , the first new Humanities Core sequence since 2007.

The University of Nottingham recently held a workshop which looked at ways in which music can be used to help people with dementia.

Penn State Laureate Rebecca Strzelec visited Penn State Worthington Scranton this week and gave a presentation titled "Art + Engineering = Creative Problem Solving.

A plethora of rare books, novels and well-loved classics will be up for grabs at the biennial University of Queensland UQ Alumni Book Fair and Rare Book Auction.

The Arts, Science & Culture Initiative project titled 'net(work)' is a music and neurobiology collaboration, in which a musical composition interprets and represents images of neurons sending electrical signals.

Four sandpipers congregate on a workbench in the basement of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Situations and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts present REFRAIN at Newhaven Fort, East Sussex Over three days in summer 2017 (9-11 June), visitors can experience Newhaven Fort as never before, through a new immersive, choral experience devised by composer and artist Verity Standen.

Ian Hinchliffe was a performance artist, as well as an installation maker, a painter, and an occasional small-screen star.

Samuel Pepys is best known for his diary writing. But thanks to an Oxford University music DPhil student, we now know a lot more about the music he commissioned.

Dr Bob Sturm, from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, and Kingston University's Dr Oded Ben-Tal explain their research creating artificial intelligence that can write folk music and whether this can open new areas of creativity.

A new project led by the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) will use the latest advances in digital technology to uncover how melodic patterns have developed in jazz music. The team, which involves researchers from France, Germany, USA and City, University of London, UK, suggest that a 'Big Data' approach where algorithms analyse huge collections of audio samples can help to understand how musical ideas in jazz have developed as the form has grown.

Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law, posted a number of tweets yesterday extracting key paragraphs from the Government's White Paper on the Great Repeal Bill and offering some preliminary thoughts.

The St. Lawrence String Quartet, Stanford's ensemble-in-residence, performed at the San Francisco County Jail, sharing classical music with inmates.

The Louvre-Lens museum and its partner, the CNRS, are conducting a novel research project during the museum's Le Nain exhibit: The Le Nain mystery.

Dr Daisy Fancourt has been selected to take part in the BBC's 2017 New Generation Thinkers programme.

École Polytechnique, also known as l'X, unveils two movies designed to increase its international recruitement in its various programs.

University of Glasgow academic Dr Alistair Fraser has today been named as a New Generation Thinker by the BBC.

A two-year Master of Music (Orchestral Performance) will launch today at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) when University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis and Chair of the

In Queen Victoria's England, novelists lodged erotic innuendo in descriptive passages for characters to express sexual desire.

The UK will today hold its first live music census aiming to take a snapshot of the general public's musical choices and tastes, how they engage with music, the formats they prefer to changes in musical trends.

The MFA Class of 2017 (l-r): Kevin Brophy, Adam Milner, Hannah Epstein, Moses Williams and Brittany De Nigris.

Trevor Pinch, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies, spent the fall 2016 semester on sabbatical at Cornell Tech in New York City, where he began conducting research with the Connective Media hub, which focuses on social technologies and the role of new media.

Researchers from the University of Warwick have teamed up with international artists to put on a free 6 day public programme at the Tate Modern in London spanning the visual arts, film, photography, design, architecture, spoken and written word running from 14-19 March 2017.