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Major new Sussex Modernist exhibition opens in London A new exhibition charting the influence of Sussex on the modernist movement in Britain and beyond will open its doors to the public in London this weekend.

How universities and black and minority ethnic communities* work together will be the focus of a new UK-wide project.

The Mead Gallery at the University of Warwick presents a major new exhibition by one of India's foremost contemporary artists, Subodh Gupta running from 14 January to 11 March 2017.

Bob Duke in his office seated on the burnt orange leather couch that was given to him by legendary Longhorn Band director Vincent DiNino.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A re-creation of the oldest medieval vernacular play, in a new English translation, will be staged at the Chapel of St. John the Divine on the University of Illinois campus.

'Here in London, you can feel like you're part of history and that you're on the cutting edge at same time - it's a great fusion,' says Noam Angrist '13, a Rhodes Scholar who shuttles between the U.K. and Botswana on behalf of a development nonprofit he launched in 2014.

Dear Stanford family, As the winter quarter begins, I want to welcome you back to campus with hopes that each of you had a restful and restorative break.

A volunteer army of music lovers is being recruited to take part in the UK's first live music census.

Fernand Gobet is a Professor of Decision Making and Expertise based in the University's Institute of Psychology, Health and Society.

When it comes to perceiving music, the human brain is much more tuned in to certain types of rhythms than others, according to a new study from MIT. A team of neuroscientists has found that people are biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios - for example, a series of four beats separated by equal time intervals (forming a 1:1:1 ratio).

On Wednesday 4 January 2017 the regular weekly broadcast of Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3 will be a service for Epiphany from the Chapel of King's College London.

That's UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra trumpet player Nick Antipa playing Beethoven's Leonore Overture No.

One of the jewels of the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments in the Faculty of Music is a trumpet made in 1666 by Simon Beale, who was the state trumpeter both to Oliver Cromwell and Charles II.

Ground-breaking digital biblical image project launched A ground-breaking project of the largest ever online commentary on the Bible through visual images is to be launched by King's College London, following a donation.

Greatly popular, the Taxitänzer will be a point of focus at this year's Paris Lodron Ball; with dance music in four rooms, they will be on the stage on Saturday, 21 January! Mit DJ Hannes Bruniic, li

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Eduardo Navas, Penn State assistant professor of art, works with students in the School of Visual Arts' New Media and Interdisciplinary Digital Studio programs, teaching a range of digital art courses that draw on his expertise in cultural analytics and digital humanities.

The new theater being built on Ithaca's Cayuga Inlet will be a 'multidisciplinary locavore arts venue,' and Cornell faculty are deeply involved.

By Pam Wigley Since the beginning of time, people around the world have looked up at the vast sky and wondered, "Is anybody out there?" Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Art and pioneering spac

For the next two weeks, students enrolled in arts and design courses all across the UC Berkeley campus will be showcasing  the work they've created this semester in dozens of exhibits, presentations, performances and design reviews.

A Dean at the Royal College of Art is to take up a key leadership role at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA).

ESA Space in Images What looks like an abstract sculpture is actually the laser equivalent of a tuning fork - to serve a new generation of space instruments.

The composer Johann Sebastian Bach left behind an incomplete fugue upon his death, either as an unfinished work or perhaps as a puzzle for future composers to solve.

People living with dementia all over Scotland have contributed to an innovative new project, featuring a striking array of tartans, which goes on show today at Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.

Tonight, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Ashmolean Museum are teaming up for FRIGHTFriday, a free, awe-inspiring evening of events exploring the art and science of hope and fear.

A new project to broker partnerships between the arts and humanities sector and universities in South West England and South East Wales to generate economic growth has received funding.

To celebrate Coventry's bid for the City of Culture in 2017 Dr Emma Parfitt, Sociology Researcher at the University of Warwick and Fargo village are bringing 17 artists and academics together for an exhibition of local artists' work that aims to bridge the art-science divide.

The world renowned Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow has secured a £1m research grant for Phase 2 of 'Editing Burns for the 21st Century'.

Do you have the physical attributes of Ultimate Fighting Championship title-holder Conor McGregor? UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences and mixed martial arts (MMA) researcher Lachlan James could help you answer that question with 10 weeks of free training. "For the final investigation of my PhD into mixed martial arts, I'm simply looking for people from the general population who would like to do 10 weeks of free supervised resistance training," Mr James said.

Trè Bunker didn't cry at war. He served five tours in the Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2005 and 2012, and says he didn't have time to feel what he was doing; he just had get through each day.

The butterfly effect explains change; the Berkeley Effect changes the world. And UC Berkeley is inviting the world to be the Berkeley Effect by donating to the university during today's Big Give, the annual fundraising blitz.

Five selected Artists have each been working together with researchers at the University of Bath to influence each other's work, study each other's methods and contribute to each other's output, in order to present results and engage people in understanding what they do.

Pupils' enthusiasm for school music lessons drops significantly during the first year of secondary school, according to new research. The study shows that most pupils enjoyed music during primary school and looked forward to music at secondary school but their enthusiasm for the subject had faded by the end of Year 7.