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Cardiff is one of 45 universities to have been awarded funding to help arts and humanities PhD students develop skills in relation to the wider impact of their research.

A conference in Cambridge next month will explore the notion of performance as a dynamic means of looking at the complex interactions between works of art and audiences -  both real and imagined, past and present - in a digital age.

When it comes to judging art, beauty may not just be in the eye of the beholder, according to a study from the University of Leeds. The research challenges the idea that what people value in art is largely what they are used to, or that people will come to like any image if they see it enough times.

Eric Ames is a University of Washington associate professor of Germanics and author of the new book " Ferocious Reality: Documentary According to Werner Herzog.

The Department of Digital Humanities at King's is partnering with the Royal Opera House and digital agency POP on one of the first collaborative projects funded by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts programme.

Two Durham University students who led a mass peace campaign in Northern Ireland are helping to launch a new network for peace across the UK.

Take part in a unique experiment and blur the lines between science and the arts at an Imperial Fringe event on Thursday in the Main Entrance on Exhibition Road from 17.

Music lovers are invited to take part in an online experiment to explore the ways that popular music has evolved between 1960 and the present day.

The documentary filmmaker and author Mark Cousins has accepted an Honorary Professorship at the University of Glasgow.

The event launches a nationwide celebration of Your Paintings - a BBC website showing the entire UK national collection of over 210,000 oil paintings.

The University of Sheffield's Vanessa Toulmin opens the doors to her new exhibition of shows, fairs and circuses in Sheffield over the past 200 years this week (Thursday 7 February - 6 May 2013).

He is a renowned filmmaker and co-inventor of IMAX, a concept that came out of Expo '67 in Montreal and has grown into a network of more than 660 IMAX theatres in 52 countries.

Calit2 senior research scientist Tom DeFanti in StarCAVE VR environment, using polarized glasses to navigate model of Atkinson Hall in S3D (but in 2D for this image).

Music students from The University of Nottingham will be mentoring primary schoolchildren in the city as part of a new scheme to tackle social deprivation through music.

Earlier this month, work concluded on an ambitious restoration project in the 109-year-old Mandel Hall, a beloved music venue for the UChicago community, Hyde Park and surrounding South Side communities.

The vitrines are meant to be happened upon as you come and go.

David Wyn Jones, Head of the School of Music at Cardiff, has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust to research a long overdue, alternative approach to the history of music in Vienna.

The University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has completed production of a two metre model of a proposed landmark sculpture for the Sheffield city region.

Tom Whittaker from the Department of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies has been appointed as the as the inaugural Franklin-Morris International Scholar.

A new exhibition about plaster and the casting process, highlighting the sculpture models of the neo-classical artist John Flaxman (1755-1826), starts at the UCL Art Museum this month.

Stanford Report, January 8, 2013 The first notes on opening night will show off the advanced acoustic and technical systems of the new concert hall.

was a very special day for the University. On that day 80 years ago, Lady Barber and the original trustees signed the Deed of Settlement, which effectively founded the Barber Institute of Fine Arts that was bequeathed to the University 'for the study and encouragement of art and music'.

Two of the nation’s most celebrated naturalists will have their voices heard by literary fans across the globe this Christmas thanks to a project led by Plymouth University.

Los Alamos trackers will use state-of-the-art technology to mark the course taken this year by Santa Claus and his eight tiny reindeer during the Jolly Elf's annual mission to spread joy to all the children of the world.

The idea that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world on Dec. 21, which has been jangling nerves worldwide, is being questioned by a University of Alberta researcher.

A three day festival at the University of Sheffield is opening up 60 years of music made with machines and computers to the public.

That little white Internet search box is more of a door than a window, says Professor Periklis Andritsos , a data mining expert at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Studies.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Toddlers with more developed language skills are better able to manage frustration and less likely to express anger by the time they're in preschool.

Stanford Report, December 17, 2012 The Stanford movement-driven band readies for its Bing Concert Hall debut with William Parker.