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  • Mammy Watta Mermaid
    Mermaids: a queer twist in the tail 14 August 2018, Sacha Coward
  • @surrealismemes on Instagram
    Is 'Mamma Mia 2' Neo-Dada? 10 August 2018, Róisín Lanigan
  • Sketch for 'East Cowes Castle, the Regatta Beating to Windward' No. 2
    The British seaside – from Turner to Nash to Emin 11 July 2018, Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams
  • A tour of the art at University College Hospital
    Ten ways art helps us heal 6 July 2018, Ben Pearce
  • Yellow Islands
    O say, can you see… American artists in UK collections? 4 July 2018, Andrew Shore
  • Epiphaniae medicorum
    A wee look at paintings of urine 2 July 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • Anne Purkiss at the top of Nelson's Column, 1987
    Photographing sculptors and their work 28 June 2018, Anne Purkiss
  • Henry Wood painting in Scotland, 1938
    An artist in more ways than one: the paintings of Sir Henry Wood 25 June 2018, James Trollope
  • West Indian
    Celebrating the Windrush generation's impact on British art 22 June 2018, Bee Tajudeen
  • Bourn Cookery Book by Giles Round and contributors
    When art meets cookery 20 June 2018, Cedar Lewisohn
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Art Matters podcast

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  • The Sea Maidens
    Art Matters podcast: mermaids and mythical creatures in art and the queer community 7 August 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • Still from The Simpsons, Season 2, Episode 17 – ‘Old Money’
    Art Matters podcast: The Simpsons, art and capturing 20th-century America 24 July 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • ‘APES**T – THE CARTERS’, music video still
    Art Matters podcast: when Beyoncé goes APES**T 10 July 2018, Ferren Gipson
  • A Surgeon Letting Blood from a Woman's Arm, and a Physician Examining a Urine Flask
    Art Matters podcast: art, medieval medicine and treating the human body 26 June 2018, Art UK
  • late 19th C, colour lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
    Art Matters podcast: when artists make cookbooks 12 June 2018, Art UK
  • Called 'John Rose (1619–1677), the Royal Gardener, Presenting a Pineapple to King Charles II (1630–1685)'
    Art Matters podcast: decoding fashion in paintings 29 May 2018, Art UK
  • Sunflowers
    Art Matters podcast: artists’ love for the colouriest colours 15 May 2018, Art UK
  • Adam and Eve
    Art Matters podcast: what to know for the Met Gala 2018 theme of 'Heavenly Bodies' 1 May 2018, Art UK
  • The Cholmondeley Ladies
    Art Matters podcast: hair trends throughout art history 17 April 2018, Art UK
  • The Actor
    Art Matters podcast: synaesthesia in art 3 April 2018, Art UK
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Artist in focus

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  • Mark Gatiss
    Mark Gatiss on John Minton: the lost man of British art 13 August 2018, Mark Gatiss
  • Three self portraits
    Rembrandt: king of the selfie 13 July 2018, Andrew Shore
  • A Bigger Splash
    David Hockney: swimming pools and suburbia 9 July 2018, Andrew Greg
  • Landscape (1)
    Julian Opie: the new 'painter of modern life'? 18 June 2018, Andrew Greg
  • Head VI
    Francis Bacon: breathing new life into figurative painting 29 May 2018, Andrew Greg
  • This Wall is Old and in Need of Care
    Tam Joseph talks to Catherine Farren 28 May 2018, Catherine Farren
  • Easter Bouquet
    Cedric Morris: plantsman, painter and traveller 17 May 2018, Lawrence Hendra
  • Movement in Squares
    Bridget Riley: top of the Ops 24 April 2018, Andrew Greg
  • Matthew Krishanu
    Matthew Krishanu: from Bradford to Bangladesh and onward 10 April 2018, Robert Priseman
  • La Pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse
    Claude Monet: the faithful Impressionist 6 April 2018, Andrew Greg
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Exhibition in focus

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  • Girl in Profile
    Then and now: 80 years of collecting contemporary art for Wales 2 August 2018, Peter Wakelin
  • Max
    Andrew Tift: Immortalise at The New Art Gallery Walsall 25 July 2018, Andrew Tift
  • 2011, embroidery by three former soldier inmates of HM Prison Wandsworth
    Created in Conflict: British soldier art from the Crimean War to today 3 May 2018, Amy Orrock and Holly Furneaux
  • Brigitte Bardot
    Process and pop: how photography influenced British Pop Art 10 March 2018, Louise Weller
  • The Awakening Conscience
    Reflections: Jan van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites 4 January 2018, Susan Foister
  • Sir Charles Grant Robertson (1869–1948), Historian
    The mesmerising and peculiar paintings of Meredith Frampton 19 October 2017, Patrick Elliott
  • Rembrandt: Lightening the Darkness 16 October 2017, Esther Morgan
  • The Green Masque (Rhoda Birley, 1900–1981)
    Power & Beauty: The Art of Sir Oswald Birley 4 October 2017, Ros Freeborn
  • Bow Bridge
    From Mile End to Mayfair: The East London Group and Their Contemporaries 2 September 2017, Alan Waltham
  • Undress hat worn by Nelson at the Battle of the Nile
    Exhibition in focus: Nelson & Norfolk 24 July 2017, Esther Morgan
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Artwork in focus

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  • Wanting to Say I
    What can this painting of an anonymous woman tell us about black history? 9 August 2018, Gregory Salter
  • Grave Group from a Surface Interment at Winterslow, Wiltshire
    Thomas Robert Guest: from obscurity to The National Gallery 31 July 2018, Tom Sutcliffe
  • Photograph of Eileen Agar sitting on a beach with a plastic swan
    Eileen Agar, and the masterpiece in the attic 27 July 2018, Andrew Lambirth
  • George IV (1762–1830), when Prince of Wales
    Write on Art: 'George IV, when Prince of Wales' by John Hoppner 20 July 2018, Sophie Mullins-Poole
  • Saint Francis in Meditation
    Write on Art: 'Saint Francis in Meditation' by Francisco de Zurbarán 19 July 2018, Felicity MacKenzie
  • British Empire Panel (11) India
    Write on Art: 'British Empire Panel (11) India' by Frank Brangwyn 18 July 2018, Abhimanyu Gowda
  • Bacchus and Ariadne
    Write on Art: 'Bacchus and Ariadne' by Titian 17 July 2018, Catherine Jamieson
  • Princess Pauline de Metternich
    When Degas painted a princess 1 June 2018, Philippa Stockley
  • Portrait of Hermine Gallia
    Hypnotic and serene: Art UK’s only Gustav Klimt painting 8 May 2018, Rozali Abou Chakra
  • A Dance to the Music of Time
    Nicolas Poussin and the musical time bomb 23 March 2018, Nick Trend
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Collection in focus

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  • Cader Idris, North Wales
    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
  • 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
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International wish list

  • Kaywin Feldman
    International wish list: Kaywin Feldman, Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, chooses... 5 June 2018, Kaywin Feldman
  • Christoph Vogtherr
    International wish list: Christoph Vogtherr, Director of the Hamburger Kunsthall, Hamburg, chooses... 26 May 2018, Christoph Vogtherr
  • Tony Ellwood
    International wish list: Tony Ellwood, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, chooses... 10 May 2018, Tony Ellwood
  • 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

  • Dolbadarn Castle
    Director’s choice: National Library of Wales 29 January 2014, Avril Jones
  • The Royal Academy Selection and Hanging Committee, 1938
    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
  • Bobby Charlton
    Director's choice: National Football Museum 8 January 2014, Kevin Moore
  • The Descent of the Holy Ghost
    Director's choice: Birmingham Museums Trust 1 January 2014, Ellen McAdam
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