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  • Design for 'Brighton Pier'
    Edward Bawden’s tips for creating a great linocut 14 August 2017, Emma Frith
  • Women of the World Unite, You have Nothing to Lose but Cheese Cake
    The artists who confronted gender norms 27 July 2017, Molly Tresadern
  • Queer
    Five powerful queer stories told by portraits 20 July 2017, Molly Tresadern
  • Richard Sasse (1774–1849), watercolour on paper, 1818
    Northern Irish art: paintings and politics 18 July 2017, Edwin Coomasaru
  • Jane Austen
    Taking a turn around Jane Austen's England 16 July 2017, Molly Tresadern
  • 1835, oil on canvas, 72.1 x 92.7 cm by Ambrose Andrews (1801–1877)
    'I paint dead people': posthumous portraits 14 July 2017, Jade King
  • June 1, No.7
    Can watercolour get smart? 28 June 2017, James Faure Walker
  • Asteroids in Space
    In search of the stars: finding science fiction in art 25 June 2017, Molly Tresadern
  • ‘Taddei Tondo’ The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, c.1504–1505, marble relief by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)
    Britain’s only Michelangelo marble 21 June 2017, Alison Cole
  • Part of the Vasari Corridor at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
    Giorgio Vasari, the father of art history 18 June 2017, Andrew Greg
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Artist in focus

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  • Sean Williams
    Robert Priseman interviews the artist Sean Williams 12 July 2017, Robert Priseman
  • A Street in Brittany
    Stanhope Forbes: father of the Newlyn School 3 July 2017, Louise Connell
  • Abdus Shakoor Shah
    Gallery Oldham's bright and bold pieces of Bengali culture 5 May 2017, Hannah Josey
  • Warrior Birds
    Artist in focus: Elisabeth Frink 25 April 2017, Jo Baring
  • c.1990, pencil on paper, 25 x 19cm by Roger Cecil (1942–2015)
    Artist in focus: Roger Cecil 8 April 2017, Peter Wakelin
  • Faraway Love
    Artist in focus: Agnes Martin 22 March 2017, Rosa Park
  • Clementine Hunter at Melrose Plantation
    Artist in focus: Clementine Hunter 9 March 2017, Ashleigh Barice
  • Painterly Architectonic
    Artist in focus: Lyubov Popova 11 February 2017, Anya Prosvetova
  • A Barber's Paraphernalia
    Artist in focus: George Chinnery 28 January 2017, Mei Xin Wang Farrell
  • Govette
    Artist in focus: David Tindle 3 January 2017, Rachel Cooke
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Artwork in focus

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  • Landscape with Windblown Trees
    Landscape with Windblown Trees 3 August 2017, Kellie Sabin
  • Back of the New Mills, Norfolk
    Back of the New Mills, Norfolk 1 August 2017, Humphrey Ocean
  • Attenborough in Paradise (Portrait of Sir David Attenborough)
    The natural history of a portrait: Attenborough in Paradise 6 July 2017, Lars Tharp
  • The Raising of Lazarus
    No. 1, National Gallery 1 June 2017, David Ekserdjian
  • The Visit
    Artwork in focus: The Visit 24 April 2017, Victoria Ibbett
  • Maestà
    Artwork in focus: Christ between Saints Paul and Peter 19 April 2017, Lucy West
  • The Hackney Painting
    Artwork in focus: The Hackney Painting 6 April 2017, Margarita Gluzberg
  • Back of Keppoch
    Artwork in focus: Back of Keppoch 19 March 2017, Fiona Bowman
  • c.1900, postcard, photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
    Artwork in focus: Sir Hubert von Herkomer 5 March 2017, Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
  • The Corner
    Artwork in focus: The Corner 23 January 2017, Lara Wardle
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Exhibition in focus

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  • Undress hat worn by Nelson at the Battle of the Nile
    Exhibition in focus: Nelson & Norfolk 24 July 2017, Esther Morgan
  • Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002), bronze with a green patina, unique
    In Their Own Words: Artist Voices from The Ingram Collection 10 July 2017, Jo Baring
  • Self Portrait
    The rise and fall of Wyndham Lewis 23 June 2017, Richard Slocombe
  • Fetching Shoes
    Stanley Spencer and Daphne Charlton: an artistic affair 11 June 2017, Carolyn Leder
  • Boy Blowing Bubbles
    Four Flemish Cinderellas: how a group of neglected paintings became the stars of the show 20 May 2017, Amina Wright
  • The Quiet River: The Thames at Chiswick
    Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality 2 May 2017, Anne Goodchild
  • Room three, showing 'The Raising of Lazarus' and 'Pope Clement VII'
    Exhibition in focus: Michelangelo & Sebastiano 28 April 2017, Rosalind McKever
  • Sime's illustration of 'The Snaitch'
    Exhibition in focus: The Art of Sidney Sime: Artist and Philosopher 14 April 2017, Jade King
  • Portrait of Francois Gerard
    Exhibition in focus: Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France 20 March 2017, Agnes Valenčak
  • The Red Dress
    Exhibition in focus: Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) 12 March 2017, Ellie Walker
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Collection in focus

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  • Robert Priseman
    Robert Priseman: Why I collect contemporary art 13 June 2017, Robert Priseman
  • Professor Stephen William Hawking
    Collection in focus: Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge 3 March 2017, Dr James Fox
  • William Morris (1834–1896)
    Collection in focus: William Morris Gallery 2 September 2016, Rowan Bain
  • The Reviling of Christ
    Collection in focus: Shipley Art Gallery 26 August 2016, Andrew Greg
  • May Morning on Magdalen Tower
    Collection in focus: Lady Lever Art Gallery 10 March 2016, Giles Waterfield
  • Christ at the Pool of Bethesda
    Collection in focus: Paintings in Hospitals 16 February 2015, Ben Pearce
  • Une ferme abandonnée en Mayenne
    Collection in focus: The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art 3 July 2014, Jo Baring
  • Small Brown Fence
    Collection in focus: Newlyn Art Gallery 11 November 2013, Kathy Hill
  • Lochaber No More
    Collection in focus: The Fleming Collection 1 October 2013, Sophie Midgley
  • Transvestite
    Collection in focus: A David Bomberg Legacy – The Sarah Rose Collection at London South Bank University 24 June 2013, Rachel Fleming-Mulford and Professor Andrew Dewdney
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International wish list

  • Guillaume Faroult
    International wish list: Guillaume Faroult, Senior Curator at the Louvre Museum, Paris, chooses... 7 August 2017, Guillaume Faroult
  • Axel Rüger
    International wish list: Axel Rüger, Director of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam chooses... 25 March 2017, Axel Rüger
  • Emilie Gordenker
    International wish list: Emilie Gordenker, Director of the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis chooses... 11 August 2016, Dr Emilie Gordenker
  • James Bradburne
    International wish list: James Bradburne, Director General of Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, chooses... 21 July 2016, James Bradburne
  • David Brigham
    International wish list: David R. Brigham, President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts chooses... 14 July 2016, Dr David R. Brigham
  • David Bomford
    International wish list: David Bomford, Chair of Conservation and Head of European Art at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, chooses... 30 June 2016, David Bomford
  • Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection
    International wish list: Xavier F. Salomon, Chief Curator of The Frick Collection, New York chooses... 23 June 2016, Xavier F. Salomon
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Director's choice

  • The Gathering (Farmers on Glyder Fach)
    Director’s choice: National Library of Wales 29 January 2014, Avril Jones
  • The Antique Room of the Royal Academy at New Somerset House
    Director's choice: Royal Academy of Arts 22 January 2014, Charles Saumarez Smith
  • Study of a Fisherwoman
    Director's choice: Penlee House Gallery & Museum 15 January 2014, Louise Connell
  • Penalty
    Director's choice: National Football Museum 8 January 2014, Kevin Moore
  • Proserpine
    Director's choice: Birmingham Museums Trust 1 January 2014, Ellen McAdam
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