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Two Imperial alumni have won Academy Awards for their work in visual film effects. Last month some of biggest megastars on the planet picked up their iconic statuettes at the annual pinnacle of the film industry.

The first anthology to specifically explore the relationships between transnational feminism and women's art practices across a range of contemporary media, edited by Dr Dorothy Rowe of the Universit

Researchers from the arts and sciences are joining forces in a bid to explore one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time – the workings of the human brain.

A new project between the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is exploring and mapping hidden gems from the Slade Archive.

During a rare visit to the UK, a world-renowned American composer told an enthralled audience at the University of Sussex yesterday (7 March) how he came to write a work about the events surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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

Highlighting the deep interest in the politics, society and history of the Caucasus at the University of Birmingham and the strong links between the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREE