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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 8d

It's the start of #BlackHistoryMonth 🎨

This page gives you a useful starting point to begin exploring the work of Black artists on Art UK 👉 artuk.org/discover/art...

🧑‍🎨 Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) © Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Corvi-Mora, London. 📷the artist.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 41m

Simeon Solomon was born #OnThisDay in 1840 🌙

He was a very successful artist until he was ostracised for his sexuality.

Discover more in this story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/simeon-solomon-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-victorian-aesthete

📸 Tate

Two angelic figures facing each other, one with closed eyes, in a nighttime scene with a crescent moon

Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 2h

✨ Thanks for a very glamorous #OnlineArtExchange 💋

Next week's theme is ‘ghosts and ethereal art’ for Ghost Objects: Summoning Leighton’s Lost Collection at Leighton House

🧑‍🎨 John Collier (1850–1934) 📷 Royal Academy of Music

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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 3h

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is all about ✨glamour✨

We're sharing this beautifully illustrated catalogue for shortbreads, biscuits and cakes produced by Huntley & Palmers in 1929. Who doesn't feel this glamourous reaching for a cookie and a cuppa? 🍪

1994.21.50 🖼️

illustrated cover of a Huntley & Palmers catalogue for 'Shortbreads, Biscuits & Cakes' with a glamourous lady wearing jewelry and evening dress sitting on the edge of a table reaching for a bowl of biscuits. From Reading Museum's collection.

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Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social · 4h

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is all about glamour! ✨ in celebration of the National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition, 'Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World'.

Here's a portrait of Beaton taken in 1933 by Francis Goodman 📸

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 4h

It's all things #glamour, fashion and stardom ✨ for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange to celebrate the new Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

We think Will Dyson's etching captures the same opulence and drama as seen in Beaton's iconic portraits💎

A black and white photograph of a young man with slick back hair, taken from chest up. He rests reclined with his arms stretched behind his head, looking into the distance.

A black and white etching of two figures. The old style film camera on the left hand side suggests a movie set, a microphone suspended from the ceiling. The cloaked man on the left holds a skull to his chest, chin raised upwards as he speaks into a microphone. The woman on the right is turned away from him, her head thrown back, holding a scarf to her chin that drapes behind her. She grips a script in other hand. In her background a circular etching surrounds her like a halo, written above her head is the word science.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 7h

Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about glamour! 💃

We've selected William Gillies RSA's Portrait of Margery Porter 2. This is one of a number of portraits by Gillies of Miss Annie Margaret Porter, the daughter of friends of his and a niece of Samuel Peploe RSA.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 7h

Love the red gloves 💅

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Royston Museum @roystonmuseum.bsky.social · 9h

Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is glamour. 💃

Our collection includes sketches by costume designer Richard Croft, who worked on a range of shows including Dr Who and Blackadder.

These are just 3 of his many glamorous designs. We believe the red dress was for the 1986 Blankety Blank Christmas Special!

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 7h

Love these! Very glamorous 💃🤩

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 10h

Great choice! 💃

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 11h

We're getting glamorous for the #OnlineArtExchange this week 💃

🎨 Julia Neilson-Terry (1868–1957), FRAM, as Drusilla Ives in 'The Dancing Girl' by John Collier from Royal Academy of Music

@artukdotorg.bsky.social #Art #BlueskyArt

Julia Neilson-Terry (1868–1957) is depicted full-length as Drusilla Ives in 'The Dancing Girl', shown in a private moment peering out from behind the grand red velvet theatre curtain before going onstage. She wears a long pink dress and her head is held high

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 10h

Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is ‘glamour’ for National Portrait Gallery's Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World ✨👗

Find out more 👉 https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2025/cecil-beaton/

📷 Worldly Colour (Charles James evening dresses), 1948. The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive © Condé Nast

A coloured photograph of a group of white women dressed in gowns in a regal interior. They all wear their hair up and their dresses have a satin shine in colours of light blue, pink, green and a bright mustard yellow.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Birthday to John Doubleday, who is known for his public sculptures 🎂

'Byrhtnoth' by John Doubleday (b.1947) © the artist 📸 Tracy Jenkins / Art UK

👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artists/doubleday-john-b-1947

An outdoor statue depicting Byrthnoth, Ealdorman of Essex. He is standing atop a column and holds a sword up to the sky and a shield in his other hand

Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'glamour' in celebration of The National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition – Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World 🌟

We'll see you there! 👋

📷 Sugar Ray Robinson, 1953. The Cecil Beaton Archive, London © Condé Nast

A black and white photograph of a black man dressed in a suit with a big grin on his mouth. The camera angles up to him with fairy lights filling the background.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 1d

'The fleeting expression of the moment' ✍️

Read about John Singer Sargent's charcoal portraits 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/john-singer-sargents-charcoal-portraits-the-fleeting-expression-of-the-moment

'Girl Reading' by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

A woman in a flowing dress reclines on a cushioned chair, engrossed in reading a book by a softly lit window.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 2d

UK teachers – get your school involved in Picture This: The Robson Orr Visual Literacy Research Initiative 🎨

Give your students aged 7-12 the chance to use art as a powerful language.

👉 https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/picture-this/

#PictureThisResearch @ox.ac.uk @education.ox.ac.uk

Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 3d

New story 🌟

Discover more about Heather Spears's startling, compassionate drawings of childbirth 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/heather-spearss-startling-compassionate-drawings-of-childbirth

🧑‍🎨 Heather Spears (1934–2021) © the artist / Wellcome Collection

Pencil sketch of a sleeping baby resting on an adult's chest with loose, expressive lines.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 3d

🌳 Read our new exhibitions spotlight: land and nature 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/exhibitions-spotlight-land-and-nature

Discover more on Bloomberg Connects 👉
https://links.bloombergconnects.org/6Ggw/zrozoya7

© Andy Goldsworthy, courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. 📷 Forestry Commission

Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 4d

It's #WorldSpaceWeek 🚀🧑‍🚀🪐

Discover The Space Age in art from the late 1950s to mid 1970s 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/Artists-and-places-The-Space-Age-late-1950s-to-mid-1970s

🧑‍🎨 Ray Harryhausen (1920–2013) © The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation

Silhouette of a figure standing on a rocky cliff with the moon glowing in the dark sky behind them.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 5d

Beneath Shropshire's tranquil surface lies a canvas of street art 🖌️

Read more in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/shropshire-street-art-mini-murals-and-more

'Elephant Looking from a Window' by Grace Jandrell (b.1997) © the artist. 📷 Michael and Janet Richardson / Art UK

A mural of a gray elephant with its trunk extended, painted to appear as if it's looking out of a white-framed window on a beige wall.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 6d

We just published a story on sheela-na-gigs!

Take a look 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

📷 Kendal Museum

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 6d

It's time for the Friday art quiz with School of Art History 💡🎨

This week is themed around Black British artists 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-black-history-month/ #BlackHistoryMonth

'Standing Figure with African Masks' by Claudette Johnson (b.1959) © the artist. 📷 Tate

Woman wearing a red jacket and blue patterned pants, posed with hands on stomach against a vibrant blue and beige abstract background.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 6d

Who else is feeling inspired by Pierre Bonnard's painting to enjoy a coffee with their pet? ☕🐶

The artist was born #OnThisDay in 1867

'Coffee (Le Café)' by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) 📷 Tate

Woman in yellow sipping from a small cup at a red and white checkered tablecloth with a brown dog beside her and a teapot on the table.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 6d

To celebrate Taylor Swift’s 'The Life of a Showgirl', here are artworks capturing the drama of the stage 👉 buff.ly/pNRYCED 🎭

'The Rehearsal' by Laura Knight (1877–1970) © reproduced with permission of the estate of Dame Laura Knight, DBE, RA / Bridgeman Images. cc/ Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

The Life of a Showgirl x Art UK | Art UK

Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 600,000 artworks by over 60,000 artists.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 7d

Another fab #OnlineArtExchange, thanks everyone! 🥳

Next week's theme is 'glamour' in celebration of The National Portrait Gallery's new exhibition – Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World 👗🌼

'Two Figures Parade in a Chinese Dragon Train' by unknown artist 📷 Wellcome Collection

Colourful traditional dragon costume with a blue face, sharp teeth and a multicoloured striped body worn by two performers.

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