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Today's #Museum30 prompt is reflection 🪞

We've chosen this painting by Mary Fedden. Read more about her work 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/mary-fedden-the-pleasures-of-life-after-privation-and-loss

'Reflection' by Mary Fedden (1915–2012) © Royal Academy of Arts.
Still life painting of a nighttime scene with a moonlit sky, a white house on a hill, a table with a bowl of grapes, a white flower in a vase and a mirror reflecting a portrait of a woman.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Remembrance Day each year is an ideal opportunity to delve into well-known and well-regarded art resulting from different periods of warfare.

#RemembranceDay #ColourOfWar #Art

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November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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It's said that dogs look like their owners 🤔

William Hogarth was born #OnThisDay in 1697. He is best known for his moral and satirical engravings and paintings, and his love for dogs 🐶

'The Painter and his Pug' by William Hogarth (1697–1764) 📷 Tate
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is rainbow 🌈

Read about the rainbow as a symbol of hope in Evelyn De Morgan's paintings 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/the-rainbow-as-a-symbol-of-hope-in-evelyn-de-morgans-paintings

📷 De Morgan Foundation
A winged woman with colourful wings kneels by a rainbow, while a dark-winged figure flies above over a misty mountainous landscape at night.
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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It's #RemembranceSunday ❤️

Anna Airy was one of the first women war artists, her paintings are powerful depictions of World War I.

Read more about the women who painted the war 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/women-painting-the-first-world-war

👩‍🎨 Anna Airy (1882–1964) 📷 Imperial War Museum
Interior of a munitions factory, with workers working on glowing, molten shells. Interior view of a munitions factory, with shells on wooden frames with wheels. An interior view of a munition factory, showing the glowing hot shell cases emerging from the furnaces on the left. Workers work on the furnaces on the left; in the foreground is the back of a worker leaning over a glowing hot shell case.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is map 🗺️

Listen to this Art Matters podcast episode on the the artistry behind maps 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-matters-podcast-the-artistry-behind-maps

'The Hand Made Map of the World' by Tam Joseph (b.1947) © the artist. 📷 Ben Uri
Colourful world map showing all countries with clear borders and names on a blue ocean background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Today's #Museum30 prompt is stitch 🪡

This cushion cover is in the Embroiderers' Guild collection. Read more about the collection 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/introducing-the-embroiderers-guild-collection

'Cushion Cover' by unknown artist 📷 The Embroiderers' Guild
Round blue fabric with intricate embroidery of a deer, fish, bird, and floral motifs in red, white, and yellow thread.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Today's #Museum30 theme is box 📦

This sculpture is not actually a cardboard box, it's a bronze cast, sealed with tape and painted.

👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/box-755460/

'Box' by Gavin Turk (b.1967) © the artist / Bridgeman Images. 📷 The David and Indrė Roberts Collection
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Wright of Derby: From the Shadows opens at the National Gallery today 🕯️

Explore one of his 'candlelight' paintings in detail with this The Superpower of Looking learning resource 👉 https://artuk.org/learn/learning-resources/the-superpower-of-looking-an-experiment-by-candlelight

📷 National Gallery
A group of people gathered around a glowing glass apparatus in a dimly lit room, observing a scientific experiment by candlelight.
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Day 6 of #Museum30 is clay ⚱️

We have just finished a 12-month Ceramics digitisation scoping project.

Read more about the project here 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

'Salt Jar' by Buckley Pottery (active 17th C–1946) 📷 Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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We’re looking at dramatic artworks for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. As sunsets go, you can’t get much more dramatic than this!

This work is Evening, Strathspey by Joseph Denovan Adam RSA. Adam specialised in painting the Highland landscape and local farm life.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Margaret Rawlings, co-founder of Equity whose many stage performances spanned 1927-1979. Bust by Frank Dobson who went to Harrow Green School & Leyton Technical School. 📷 Manchester Art Gallery, © the artist's estate artuk.org/discover/art... For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's drama #OnlineArtExchange 🎭
Bust of Margaret Rawlings by Frank Dobson (1886-1963). Image credit Manchester Art Gallery, © the artist's estate. Via ArtUK https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/margaret-rawlings-19061996-256030/search/actor:dobson-frank-18861963/page/4/view_as/grid
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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We're taking this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme of dramatic art very literally AND shamelessly pandering to #swifties with this wonderful cast bronze plaque of Ophelia in front of the Arras in Hamlet. It's from Colzium House #Kilsyth artuk.org/discover/art... #taylorswift
A hand-painted bronze plaque in a wooden frame. It shows a young woman standing in a long dress in a doorwa with a suit of armour to the right and and blue and gold cloth behind her. She is reading a book which she holds in both hands.
November 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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We're getting dramatic for the #OnlineArtExchange this week.

We've selected a painting which is full of drama:

Captain William Rogers Capturing the 'Jeune Richard', 1 October 1807
Samuel Drummond (1765–1844) from National Maritime Museum

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A dramatic naval battle scene with sailors in dynamic poses, wielding weapons. The central figure aims a pistol, conveying tension and urgency. Clouds and ship rigging form the backdrop.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is 'most dramatic artworks' 🎭

'Cassandra' (c.1863-64) by Frederick Sandys depicts the tragic cries of Cassandra - bestowed with the gift of prophecy, cursed to have no one believe her.

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A woman has her head thrown back, her mouth open in a cry, her expression fearful. Her dark hair tumbles behind her. She wears beaded necklaces of blue and amber, and a laurel wreath is around her neck. We can see Troy in the background, the red glow of the sun dipped beneath the horizon ominously framing the city.
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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It's dramatic artwork for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange.

What can be more dramatic than this sky?

🖼️ A Spate in the Highlands by Peter Graham from the collection of Manchester Art Gallery
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange is most dramatic artworks ⚡🌟

We're starting with some theatrical portraits 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/hamming-it-up-a-closer-look-at-the-genre-of-theatrical-portraits

'Dame Ellen Terry, as Lady Macbeth' by Reginald Grenville Eves (1876–1941) 📷 Eden herb
Woman in an elaborate green medieval-style gown with long flowing sleeves holds a jeweled crown above her head.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Today's #OnlineArtExchange is most dramatic artworks ⚡🌟

We're starting with some theatrical portraits 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/hamming-it-up-a-closer-look-at-the-genre-of-theatrical-portraits

🧑‍🎨 Reginald Grenville Eves (1876–1941) 📷 Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Woman in an elaborate green medieval-style gown with long flowing sleeves holds a jeweled crown above her head.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange is your most dramatic artworks ⛈️💁

We'll see you in the morning!

'Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches (from William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Act I, Scene iii)' by Henry Fuseli (1741–1825) 📸 National Trust
Two men (Macbeth and Banquo) stand at the far right of the painting, Macbeth is carrying a sword by his side. On the left, three witches dressed in white, crouching with their arms outstretched towards to two men. The background is dark and murky.
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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It's #BonfireNight! 🎆🌟

Explore some art inspired by fireworks in this Curation 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/object-in-focus-fireworks

'Fireworks' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @Wilhelmina barns graham
Abstract painting of line of blue, red, yellow and orange shooting out in different directions like fireworks against a deep purple background
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Read about five makers from the Aberystwyth University School of Art ceramics collection 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/five-makers-from-the-aberystwyth-university-school-of-art-ceramics-collection

Reginald Fairfax Wells (1877–1951) 📷 Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Discover more about Art Nouveau in the UK with this new story by Simon Coates 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-nouveau-in-the-uk-how-british-artists-drew-influence-from-europe

'Frontispiece for 'Venus and Tannhauser'' by Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) 📷 The Higgins Bedford
Art Nouveau style illustration featuring a central figure in a flowing gown adorned with floral embroidery, flanked by two robed figures holding staffs topped with ornate baskets.
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A new, free The Superpower of Looking learning resource will soon be winging its way to you 🐦

In our latest film, street artists Scott Irving (Brave Arts) and Peachzz meet pupils from Brinsworth Howarth Primary School in South Yorkshire to check out a special mural.

Keep an eye out 👀
A small group of primary school children stands in front of a tall mural which shows a kingfisher in flight with two small fish in its mouth. The children are joined by three adults, some of whom are using cameras to film them. A round yellow shape is overlaid on top of the photo in the top right hand corner. It reads: COMING SOON.
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Read about the strange art of female anatomical figure studies in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/dissecting-women-the-strange-art-of-female-anatomical-figure-studies

🧑‍🎨 Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst (1825–1904) 📷 Wellcome Collection
A group examine a woman on a table, with anatomical models and books nearby.
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Hello November! 👋

Check out these artworks with 'November' in the title 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/A-Year-through-Art-November

'November Morning, Knostrop Hall, Leeds' by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) 📷 Shipley Art Gallery
Road with walls either side, with bare trees, a figure walks down the pavement
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM