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Art UK is an art education charity and the online home to every public art collection in the UK. Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
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New story 🌟

Read 'Francisco de Zurbarán's 'Jacob and his Twelve Sons' at Auckland Castle' by Adam Wattam 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/francisco-de-zurbarans-jacob-and-his-twelve-sons-at-auckland-castle
A barefoot man in a flowing red robe and white cloak holds an open book and a curved sword against a muted landscape background.
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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We’ve imagined what some well-known figures might like to unwrap from the Art UK Shop this Christmas 🎁

From David Attenborough to Frida Kahlo to Wednesday Addams, take a look at our our fantasy gift guide 👉 https://shop.artuk.org/the-art-insider-blog/christmas-fantasy-gift-guide
Selection of Art UK Shop products: framed print, coaster, mug, makeup bag Living room with knitted pillows, a mustard lamp and a framed painting of a black and white dog resting on a striped blanket. Framed painting of a busy outdoor market scene with people walking and stalls under a cloudy sky on a wooden table.
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is animals 🐬

Read about animals in Renaissance art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/animals-in-renaissance-art

'Arion riding on a Dolphin' by Francesco Bianchi Ferrari (c.1460–1510) 📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A cherubic figure with golden wings plays a violin while seated on a dolphin in a coastal landscape with boats and distant mountains.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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It's St Cecilia’s Day, the patron saint of musicians. In the Baroque period, Cecilia is often shown holding a stringed instrument 🎻

Read about Cecilia's depictions in art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/saint-cecilia-patron-saint-of-musicians

🧑‍🎨 Guido Reni (1575–1642) 📷 Walker Art Gallery
Saint Cecilia wears a red dress with a white blouse. Standing in front of a dark background, she looks upward, holding a violin in front of her.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is walk 🚶

Here's a cosy looking winter walk – 'Flask Walk, Hampstead, at Night' by Charles Ginner (1878–1952) 🌟

📷 National Trust
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Why did Samuel Palmer and William Blake paint landscape but hate nature?

Find out more in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/why-did-samuel-palmer-and-william-blake-paint-landscape-but-hate-nature

'The Harvest Moon' by Samuel Palmer (1805–1881) 📷 Yale Center for British Art
A moonlit autumn forest scene with a group of people gathered among golden foliage under a glowing full moon.
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about emotion for @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social's Subversive Forms: Revolutionary Approaches to Clay.

Our pick is Jessica Harrison’s Diploma work.
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is emotion. We chose Bramley’s "A Hopeless Dawn" (1888), a poignant scene of a wife and mother at daybreak as hope fades. Ruskin’s words at the RA spoke of sorrow, courage, and a guiding hand through every “hopeless dawn.”
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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For today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange, we're exploring emotion to celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, 'Subversive Forms: Revolutionary approaches to clay'. Featured in the exhibition, this work is 'The Gathering' by Sarah Purvey.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is #Emotion for the opening of Subversive Forms: Revolutionary approaches to clay @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social

Our pick is the tragedy of Othello's Despair and the startled face of Claire Loder's intriguing ceramic heads! 😱
A ceramic head that is made of speckled pink and white plaster that cracks across the skin. The head is bald and has a very simple face. A line is drawn horizontally for the mouth and dots for eyes. The eyes sit on a flower like design, brown petals carved around the eye. A man in a clock frowns with his hands placed a top his head in despair. He stands in front of a patterned curtain that conceals a body, a hand slipping out under the fabric...
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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It's emotions for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrating Subversive Forms: Revolutionary Approaches to Clay @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social

We have chosen the aptly named 'Rollercoaster Emotions' by Craig Mitchell from the collection of the National Museum of Scotland
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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An 'emotional' #OnlineArtExchange! Thanks everybody 🙂☹️

Next week's theme is #MuseumShopSunday – share the love and show your favourite museum and art gallery shop products 🛍️🎨

'Christine Sumner' by Bohuslav Barlow (b.1947) © the artist. 📷 Brontë Parsonage Museum
A woman wearing a green hat and brown coat holds a wooden walking stick beside a small white and brown dog standing on a rock in a natural outdoor setting.
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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for @artukdotorg.bsky.social i wrote about Norman McLaren's drawings, prints, and paintings & how they sit alongside his animation work artuk.org/discover/sto...
Drawing movement: Norman McLaren's experiments in animation
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November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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We're getting emotional for the #OnlineArtExchange 🥺

"Bust of a Crying Child" by
George Alfred Holman from
Beecroft Art Gallery

#WorldChildrensDay @artukdotorg.bsky.social #BlueskyArt #sculpture
Bronze-toned sculpted bust of a crying child with tightly shut eyes, open mouth, and contorted facial expression, featuring textured hair waves and a smooth, rounded collar; dramatic emotional detail emphasizes distress, classical figurative sculpture, realistic child portrait bust, expressive art, museum artwork photography.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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War, Haydn Reynolds Mackey, Vestry House Museum. Mackey taught at Walthamstow Art School. © the artist's estate. 🖼️ Vestry House Museum. artuk.org/discover/art... For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange on emotion for Subversive Forms: Revolutionary Approaches to Clay at Chippenham Museum.
War, oil painting by Haydn Reynolds Mackey c.1920, Vestry House Museum. © the artist's estate. Image credit Vestry House Museum, via ArtUK https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/war-135302/view_as/grid/search/collections:vestry-house-museum/page/2
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'emotion' for Subversive Forms: Revolutionary Approaches to Clay at Chippenham Museum ⚱️

This work features, exhibition open until 21st Feb👉 https://www.chippenham.gov.uk/chippenham-museum-subversive-forms-revolutionary-approaches-to-clay/

📷 'Wonky' by Sam Lucas
Abstract sculpture with a textured black cone atop a rough white base, supported by three irregular black legs against a plain background.
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is diary 📕

Here's 'Diary' by Sally Moore (b.1962)

Read more about the figure-painter 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/sally-moore-painting-fictions-that-are-truer-than-fact

© the artist. 📷 The National Library of Wales
Woman in an orange sleeveless dress holding a green mug, sitting at a wooden table with an open diary and pencil, against a backdrop of a colourful solar system curtain.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'emotion' for Subversive Forms: Revolutionary Approaches to Clay at Chippenham Museum ⚱️

We'll see you there!

'The Face of an Angry Man' by Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) 📷 Wellcome Collection
Detailed sepia sketch of a man's head with curly hair.
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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David Nash finds inspiration in the natural material found all around us. The sculptor was born #OnThisDay 🎈

Read more 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/david-nash-sculpting-with-nature

'Black Mound' by David Nash (b.1945) © Courtesy of the Artist & YSP 📸 Jonty Wilde. Courtesy of YSP
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is magic 🪄🔮

Here's 'The Magic Crystal' by Simeon Solomon (1840–1905)

👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-magic-crystal-study-male-figure-206059/

📷 Manchester Art Gallery
A partially draped man leans on a wooden structure under a starry night sky, with a magic crystal.
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Our ArtConnects programme links communities to their local culture, tackling loneliness and unequal access to museums. Here's what some of our participants had to say.

Want to support us? Look out for our Big Give challenge launching soon! 💞

#GivingTuesday #ArtEducationCharity
Two people viewing an artwork on a laptop screen. Text reads: 'It is very positive, it’s mentally stimulative, it’s physically a place for me to get up and go to, and then I get a feeling of wellbeing.' Text reads: 'It broadens your horizons… I didn’t expect it to be so enlightening.' Two people sitting at a table reviewing printed photos and a large city map.
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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New artist interview 🌟

Emma Stibbon's work visually documents the climate emergency 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/drawing-melting-ice-and-rising-tides-an-interview-with-emma-stibbon

1) 📷 Darrell Tuffs / 2) 'Ice Tongue' by Emma Stibbon (b.1962) © the artist. 📷 Chippenham Museum
Emma Stibbon standing in a gallery with her works on the white wall Mountain covered in snow and ice with water
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is photograph 📸

Discover photography on Art UK 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/art-terms/photography

'Self-Portrait with Vivex One-Shot Camera' by Madame Yevonde (1893–1975) © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Person in an orange sleeveless garment with black floral details holding a vintage camera resting on a stack of books.
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is making ✂️🖌️

Our choice is 'Convalescent Nurses Making Camouflage Nets' by Evelyn Mary Dunbar (1906–1960)

📷 Imperial War Museums
Women collaboratively sewing and quilting a large net in a room with framed paintings and a wooden chair.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Looking for some gift inspiration for the art lover in your life? 🎁🖼️

Tick everything off your Christmas shopping list with our edits.

Celebrate women artists with these prints 👉 https://shop.artuk.org/the-art-insider-blog/ten-female-artists-whose-prints-are-perfect-to-hang-on-your-wall
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM