In a transformative moment for the UK's cultural sector, the Museum Data Service (MDS) has officially launched, setting the stage for an unprecedented consolidation of the UK's museum records. A ...

This essay was written for the 2024 Write on Art prize, winning third place in the Year 12 & 13 category. Dawn rises upon a shattered landscape, illuminated by blinding crepuscular rays that only ...

Over two decades from 1898 to 1908, American-British impressionist John Singer Sargent was commissioned to paint twelve portraits of Asher Wertheimer and his family. Nine of these portraits were ...

'Happy is he whom the Muses love,' wrote the ancient Greek poet Hesiod in around the seventh century BC – and may we all be so blessed. But who were the Muses of whom Hesiod spoke? They were the nine ...

The Usher Gallery opened in Lincoln in a purpose-built gallery in 1927 and is named after a local jeweller James Ward Usher (1845-1921) who generously bequeathed his collection and a sum of money to ...

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The Île-de-France is the region in northern France surrounding the capital in Paris. The Parisian city centre and modern life are often closely associated with the French Impressionists especially, ...

UCL Art Museum has its origins as a teaching and research collection tied to the history of the Slade School of Art at University College London. As the Slade was the first school to admit women, a ...

This curation celebrates the wealth of art made by refugees seeking sanctuary in Britain from Nazi Germany. It focuses on nine sculptors and painters, four of whom were born in 1897. My interest in ...

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The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented freedom of expression in art, where new visual languages broke time-honoured rules. This newfound creative autonomy bought with it a number of ...

Art UK provides advice on how to take care of and photograph art objects, maintain a digital record of your artworks, and build those records through research – such as through the Art Detective ...