Museum of Modern Art (01865 722733, infoline 01865 813830): Tues-Sun 11-6, Thurs 11- 9, until Jan 7, 2001, Matt Mullican More Details from an Imaginary Universe. Thursday viewpoint talks at 6.15pm. In the cafe gallery: Isidro Ramirez re:creation, large-scale photographs taken in Spain and London.

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Ashmolean Museum (01865 278015): Tues-Sat, 10-5, Sun 2-5. Exhibitions: until Nov 5, Arthur Evans and Knossos; until Nov 19, Edward Ardizzone, RA (1900-1979); until Nov 26, Persian Steel. Britain's first public gallery of Chinese painting, the Khoan and Michael Sullivan gallery, now open. Gallery talks 1.15pm Fridays and Tuesdays today: Arthur Evans and the Knossos Frescoes (2.30pm). Ashmolean Treasures Tour every Saturday 11am. To book a place on gallery talks, activities and tours tel 01865 278015. ____________________

Oxford University Museum of Natural History (01865 272950): open daily noon-5pm. Until December, Ruskin and the Oxford University Museum.

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Pitt Rivers Museum (01865 270927): open noon-5pm, daily. Until Sept 2001, Transformations: The Art of Recycling. Also the Joachim Schmid Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, an artist's intervention and site-specific installation.

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Island Gallery, Folly Bridge: until Oct 29, paintings by Kieran James Stiles. Open Tues to Sat 10-6, Mon and Sat noon-6.

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Christ Church Picture Gallery (01865 276172): Mon-Sat 10.30-1, 2-4.30, Sun 2-4.30. Until Nov 15, Images of Women Old Master drawings.

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Oxford Gallery, 23 High Street: Mon to Sat 10-5, until Nov 22, work by Malcom Martin and Gaynor Dowling; Tsugumi Ota, Vivienne Foley. ____________________

Phoenix Picture House, Walton Street: ongoing, graphic work by Alun Ward inspired by the 19th- century tale of Peter Schelmihl who sells his shadow for a bottomless bag of gold.

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University Club, 6-8 South Parks Road: Mon-Fri 10-5, until to Nov 24, Society of Wood Engravers.

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Wolfson College, Linton Road (01865 274100): Mon to Nov 17, 10-4, Tess Recordon a retrospective. Telephone before visiting.

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Christ Church Cathedral: Nov 1-12, 8.30-4.30 daily, Children of the Millennium an installation by Diana Bell.

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St Edward's School, Woodstock Road: Sat and Sun, 10-5, Festival of Ceramics. ____________________

Bloomin' Arts, Princes Street: until Nov 24, local arts and disability organisation ITHACA. Work by users and survivors of the mental health system in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. 01865 714652.

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Wiseman Gallery, South Parade, Summertown: Mon and Wed 10-4, Tues and Thurs to Sat 10-6, until Nov 4, paintings, prints and sculpture ten artists explore the theme of the figure.

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Natural Health Centre, 3 Church Cowley Road, Iffley (01865 715615): 9-1, 2-5, Mon to Fri, until Dec 22, etchings by Morna Rhys.

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Ark-T Gallery, Crowell Road, Cowley: until Nov 18, Full Circle. Paintings by Ernesto Lozada-Uzuriaga.

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Oxford Town Hall: Nov 1 to 4, 10-4 daily, art and craft by local artists.

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Verandah Gallery, North Parade: Oct 28-29, 11-5, The Birthday Exhibition.

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Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock (01993 811456): until Nov 19, Jewellery and

Silver Society of Oxford two millennia of silver-smithing in Oxfordshire. Weekend workshops.

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Bartholomew Room, Eynsham: daily 10-4.30 (Sun 2.30-4.30), today and Sat, Eynsham Arts Group.

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Electric Showroom, Abingdon: until Nov 4, daily 10-5, Oxford Art Society's 104th open exhibition. ____________________

Masonic Hall, Alfred Street, Wantage: Mon to Thurs and Sat 10-5, Fri 10-9, Sun 2-5, until Nov 26, Lord Wantage Victoria Cross Paintings. 01235 763459.

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Banbury Museum: today and Sat 10-5, The Oxford Inklings.

Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage: Until Nov 5, textiles by Caroline Marriott, Henny Pattenden and Mary Taylor. 01235 771447.

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Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch on Thames: Oct 28-Nov 19, Joanna Bailey, Kathryn Williams. New paintings.Tues to Sat 10-5.30pm.

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River and Rowing Museum, Henley: from Oct 28, celebration of the work of Dame Elisabeth Frink. Sat noon, poetry reading by The Park Bench Project. 01491 415615.

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Milton Keynes Gallery (01908 676900): until Dec 3, Conversation twenty-two figurative sculptures.