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Connecting you to art 🖼 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! https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 10h

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 · 13h

'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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

🌳 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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 6d

Very nice! 🥳

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Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social · 6d

It's celebrations and unveilings for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange for The Harris Reopening - congratulations!🥳🥳

We have chosen 'Celebrations in Barbastro' by Campbell Sandilands from the collection of University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 6d

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the recent reopening of The Harris, Preston👏

In keeping, here's John Fulleylove's 1877 painting, Opening of the Walker Art Gallery (the same year) 🏛️

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Europeana @europeana.bsky.social · 6d

It's time for #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!

For the theme 'celebrations & unveilings' we've chosen Carl Larsson's 'A day of celebration' (Nationalmuseum Sweden), showing the Larsson children dressed up to celebrate the maid Emma on her name day🥳

www.europeana.eu/item/2064116...

Children and adults in festive costumes gather inside a decorated wooden room, some holding garlands.

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pierartscentre.bsky.social @pierartscentre.bsky.social · 6d

This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is about ‘Celebrations and unveilings’ for The Harris reopening

Here's The Fête, 1976 by Mary Newcomb (1922–2008) from the collection at Norfolk Museums Service

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Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social · 6d

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘Celebrations and Unveilings’, and we’re delighted to mark The Harris reopening with Gala Day at Newlyn, Cornwall, by Stanhope Alexander Forbes.

This painting beautifully captures Cornish community life and celebration!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 6d

We’re celebrating The Harris' reopening for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!

Our pick is Herbert James Gunn’s portrait of our past President, William Oliphant Hutchison. The Harris has another portrait by James Gunn in their Collection, ‘Pauline in the Yellow Dress’.

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Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social · 6d

It's #celebrations for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange 🎉

We're spotlighting Mitzi Cunliffe - designer of the iconic BAFTA mask celebrating TV excellence since 1955, and creator of Man-Made Fibres for the #unveiling of a new @universityofleeds.bsky.social building in 1956.

Bronze mask on a granite stand with a plaque which reads BAFTA CYMRU

Stone carving of two hands cradling interwoven lengths of thread in a lattice pattern, situated on the top of a building.

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Chippenham Museum @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social · 6d

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings. Robin Tanner's 'Harvest Festival' (1930) combines features of three local churches: Draycot Cerne, Langley Burrell, and Biddestone, capturing the “ripe, pagan, riotous affair” of early church festivals.

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Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery @blackburnmuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the reopening of The Harris! 🥳

We can't wait to visit and see this icon back on display. 💛

🖼 'Pauline in the Yellow Dress' c.1944 by Herbert James Gunn

🔗 artuk.org/discover/art...

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 6d

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘celebrations and unveilings’ for The Harris reopening 🎊

The newly transformed museum, art gallery and library in Preston opened last week! 🏛️🎀

📷 Michael Porter

The Harris building with grand columns and red ribbon

Gallery wall with three framed paintings against a vibrant red background.

Vintage bicycle mounted on a wall with a large yellow arrow sign behind it in a museum display case, and various other objects.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 6d

Could you be our next Chair?

Art UK seeks an experienced and dynamic Chair of Trustees with a strong interest in how digital technologies can democratise access to the UK's national collection of art.

Apply by 5pm Monday 6th October 2025 👉 http://artuk.org/about/jobs

Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘celebrations and unveilings’ for The Harris reopening 🎊

Get started here 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/2025--category:celebrations

'Carnival Night, Memorial Park, Coventry' by Walter Ashworth (1883–1952) 📷 Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

An evening outdoor gathering with people dancing and socialising under trees decorated with string lights.

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