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  • A Love-Sick Man Taking Some of Doctor Hymen's Pills to Try and Cure Himself
    Lovesick blues: a short history of love and pain in art 14 February 2019, Lydia Figes
  • Viewing Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' in The National Gallery
    Seven British artists inspired by Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' 8 February 2019, Martin Bailey
  • John Ruskin (1819–1900)
    Who was John Ruskin? 8 February 2019, Lydia Figes
  • John Ruskin
    To see clearly: why Ruskin matters 8 February 2019, Suzanne Cooper
  • Afterglow in Egypt
    A fantasy of the black and the beautiful 7 February 2019, Patricia Yaker Ekall
  • BBC Icons
    A look at BBC Two's ‘Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century’ through art 4 February 2019, Lydia Figes
  • The Smile
    Picturing Victorian childhood 30 January 2019, Katty Pearce
  • House of Commons, 1986
    How do you paint a disagreement? 24 January 2019, Tom Sutcliffe
  • Robert Burns (1759–1796), Poet
    Tam o’ Shanter: Robert Burns' poem illustrated by Alexander Goudie 23 January 2019, Lydia Figes
  • A Highlander Passing a Grave
    A quest to end war: the Paris Peace Conference 1919 18 January 2019, Gary Haines
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Art Matters podcast

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    Art Matters podcast: Art on the Underground 12 February 2019, Ferren Gipson
  • Abstract No. 1: paint by number design by Dan Robbins
    Art Matters podcast: the history of paint by number 29 January 2019, Ferren Gipson
  • Glen Tilt
    Art Matters podcast: the Pre-Raphaelites’ relationship with science 15 January 2019, Ferren Gipson
  • Greetings card
    Art Matters podcast: weird, dark and wonderful Victorian Christmas cards 11 December 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • The Mona Lisa on display in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 1913
    Art Matters podcast: lost art, forgeries and the theft of the 'Mona Lisa' 4 December 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • Illustration for a French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven'
    Art Matters podcast: artists as book illustrators 13 November 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • Small Harbour Scene
    Art Matters podcast: how Alfred Hitchcock created artful suspense 30 October 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • English Pastoral
    Art Matters podcast: black women artists and #blackgirlmagic 16 October 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • Sunset and Afterglow, Krakatoa, 9 November 1883
    Art Matters podcast: art in the Science Museum 2 October 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • Still from RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, Season 3, Episode 5 – ‘Pop Art Ball’
    Art Matters podcast: the art of RuPaul’s Drag Race 18 September 2018, Ferren Gipson
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Artist in focus

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  • Until the day break and the shadows flee away
    Simeon Solomon: the rise and fall of a Victorian aesthete 13 February 2019, Colin Cruise
  • Greenhouse and Sheds, Mow Cop, Staffordshire
    At one with the elements: the paintings of Jack Simcock 29 January 2019, Henry Birks
  • Crucifixion, Wigan
    Theo Major: a forgotten twentieth-century master 14 January 2019, Michael Howard
  • The Red Jersey
    Mabel Nicholson: overlooked talent and mother of a British art dynasty 7 January 2019, Tim Cornwell
  • Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 5
    Henry Moore at 120 20 December 2018, Andrew Shore
  • Self Portrait
    L. S. Lowry: true to life 13 December 2018, Claire Stewart
  • Le Déjeuner
    Édouard Vuillard: Nabi and intimist 5 December 2018, Francesca Berry
  • Awakening of the Spirit of the Rose
    William Stott of Oldham: the rare 'great painter' who fought with Whistler 20 November 2018, Rebecca Hill
  • A Dryad
    Annie Swynnerton: artist and activist 16 November 2018, Rebecca Milner
  • The Conquerors
    Sandy Nairne on Eric Kennington's 'Gassed and Wounded' 8 November 2018, Sandy Nairne
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Exhibition in focus

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  • Othello, the Moor of Venice
    Speech Acts: reflections – performing the self 28 January 2019, Hammad Nasar
  • The Music Lesson
    Seen and heard: Victorian children in the frame 22 January 2019, Katty Pearce
  • Thomas Gainsborough
    Gainsborough's family album 21 January 2019, Lucy Peltz and David Solkin
  • Figures in a Street
    L. S. Lowry: Salford’s Royal Academician 11 January 2019, Claire Stewart
  • Deux ouvrières dans l'atelier de couture (Two Seamstresses in the Workroom)
    Five must-see works in 'Maman: Vuillard and Madame Vuillard' 5 December 2018, Francesca Berry
  • The Bower Meadow
    L. S. Lowry and the Pre-Raphaelites 3 December 2018, Claire Stewart
  • Sonia Boyce
    Speech Acts: an introduction by Sonia Boyce 27 November 2018, Sonia Boyce
  • Speech Acts
    Speech Acts: a curatorial introduction 27 November 2018, Hammad Nasar
  • Speech Acts
    Speech Acts: introduction by the Director of Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth 27 November 2018, Alistair Hudson
  • An Italian Mother and Child
    Five must-see works in 'Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope' 16 November 2018, Rebecca Milner
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Artwork in focus

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  • Lancelot Ribeiro with his artwork 'Untitled (Townscape)' in 1965
    Lancelot Ribeiro: the anatomy of three paintings 15 February 2019, Marsha Ribeiro
  • (in situ), 1730, oil on canvas by William Hogarth (1697–1764)
    Save our Hogarth! 'The Wollaston Family' at Leicester's New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 6 February 2019, Sarah Levitt
  • Jon Sleigh giving a talk in front of Francis Bacon's 'Figures in a Landscape'
    Coded messages in art: Francis Bacon's 'Figures in a Landscape' 4 February 2019, Jon Sleigh
  • Robert Burns
    Robert Burns: capturing the Bard in three dimensions 25 January 2019, Rhona Taylor
  • Madame Crozat
    The mystery of Jacques Aved and a French revolutionary's grandmother 16 January 2019, Dr Marion Richards
  • Hazell, Watson and Viney building in Aylesbury
    Rescued from a skip: a portrait of a colonel 17 December 2018, Maev Kennedy
  • Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)
    Edward McGuire’s portrait of Seamus Heaney 22 November 2018, Stefani Bednarova
  • Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia
    Centuries of solidarity: Lotto's portrait inspired by Lucretia 21 November 2018, Patricia Yaker Ekall
  • Gassed
    Comfort vs reality: the early reactions to John Singer Sargent’s 'Gassed' 6 November 2018, Gary Haines
  • Solar Spot
    Star of the show: Nasmyth's solar spots 9 October 2018, Katy Barrett
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Collection in focus

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  • The Horse Fair
    The eight women artists of The National Gallery 11 February 2019, Jade King
  • The Adoration of the Magi
    Twelve treasures of the National Trust 5 February 2019, David Taylor
  • Otter Gallery, University of Chichester
    An update and a lament: the Bishop Otter Collection 24 January 2019, Gill Clarke
  • The Building Committee, Glasgow School of Art
    Things we lost in the fire: the tragedy at The Glasgow School of Art 18 December 2018, Tim Cornwell
  • Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael the Archangel
    Mum's the word at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 28 November 2018, Helen Record
  • Shady Quiet
    The Royal Watercolour Society: a brief history 22 July 2018, James Faure Walker
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital
    Collection in focus: Arts for Health – Milton Keynes 5 July 2018, Sarah Hunt
  • Bust of John Hunter (1728–1793)
    Collection in focus: St George's Hospital, Tooting 3 July 2018, Joanna Wakefield
  • The Old Man Becomes Young
    Mythstories: using art to tell tales 26 January 2018, Molly Tresadern
  • The Brewer Turned Sportsman
    A view from the east: Ipswich's rarely seen works on paper 19 January 2018, Michael Sheehy
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News

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  • Northern Ireland Coordinator Dickon Hall with Photographer Bryan Rutledge at Ulster Museum
    Woah, we're halfway there: woah-oh – sculpture everywhere! 15 February 2019, Katey Goodwin
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    Castles and colleges: recording sculpture in the Highlands and Islands 29 November 2018, Sophia Sheppard
  • Recording the statue of Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) outside The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
    Sculpture Around You in Stoke-on-Trent 13 July 2018, Katey Goodwin
  • The first work captured was a sculpture of the head of the legendary Italian heiress and patron of the arts Marchesa Luisa Casati Stampa di Soncino, created by renowned artist Sir Jacob Epstein in 1918
    And we're off! Art UK's sculpture photography begins 1 May 2018, Colin White
  • Bust, presented to Gilwell by the Scouts of Mexico, 1968
    Scouting sculpture, stories and skills for life: a century of Scout collecting 16 April 2018, Caroline Pantling
  • 1998, steel by Antony Gormley (b.1950)
    The making of 'The Angel of the North' 9 March 2018, Anna Pepperall
  • Testing sculpture photography techniques at York Art Gallery
    Creating the cast: introducing our sculpture digitisation team 25 January 2018, Alison Mitchelson and Hazel Buchan Cameron
  • Pupils from St Matthew's Primary School in Stretford examining a work by L. S. Lowry during our Masterpieces in Schools project in 2013
    Announcing our sculpture learning and engagement programme 15 January 2018, Laura Woodfield
  • 2016 by Jill Watson
    Mapping cultural memory through public monuments 8 September 2017, Anthony McIntosh
  • Nymph Removing a Thorn from a Greyhound’s Foot (detail)
    Announcing our new sculpture project 21 June 2017, Katey Goodwin
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