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Andrew Shore
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Director of Content at Art UK.

Love all kinds of music, books etc. Used to work at the British Museum.
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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Laurence Stephen Lowry was born #OnThisDay 🎈

You can find lots of Lowry prints for your walls on the Art UK Shop 👉 https://shop.artuk.org/artist/laurence-stephen-lowry-1887-1976

'Going to Work' by Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976) © The Lowry Collection
Crowds of people walking in an industrial city
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This painting is one of the most iconic images from Wales's visual culture – but can you spot the devil in the shawl? 😈

Read more 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/salem-337662

'Salem' by Sydney Curnow Vosper (1866–1942) 📷 Lady Lever Art Gallery
A woman in a tall black hat and colorful shawl stands inside a wooden church with seated people around her.
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of #BohemianRhapsody here’s a load of art matched up with the song artuk.org/discover/cur...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Put your spooky art knowledge to the test with our Halloween quiz! »🎃 👉 https://3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-halloween 'The Beguiling of Merlin' by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898). 📷 Lady Lever Art Gallery
A woman in a flowing dark dress stands barefoot on a log, reading a scroll amidst blooming trees, while a seated man in dark robes looks up at her.
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Happy Halloween 🎃👻

Discover stories themed on fear and horror 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/view_as/grid/search/2024--sttopicr:fear-and-horror?

'Summoning the Devil' by Normandie Syken (b.1995) © the artist. 📷 Glasgow Women's Library
A person in traditional clothing kneels with raised arms before a swirling, ghostly face emerging from smoke or flames.
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of #BohemianRhapsody here’s a load of art matched up with the song artuk.org/discover/cur...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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A spook-tacular #OnlineArtExchange for Halloween – thanks everyone 💀🦇🎃

Next week's theme is your most dramatic artworks 🎭

'Metamorphic Skull Postcard' by unknown artist 📷 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Vintage illustration of two children sitting together inside a large, translucent skull with detailed teeth and eye sockets.
October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This month’s #OnlineArtExchange theme from @artukdotorg.bsky.social is 'Spooky Art'.

We've chosen this piece by Carel Weight RA, who often populated his work with ghostly presences. In 'I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart', the man on the right appears as a ghost, watching the couple on the left.
I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart, 1978. Carel Victor Morlais Weight (1908–1997). © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Jerwood Collection
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is SpoooooOoooOoooky Art 👻

This Mark Symons piece shows a group of fairy-like figures dancing through a graveyard by the light of the moon. Sweet or spooky? We'll let you decide...

📷 Watercolour sketch from Reading Museum's collection
Faded watercolour showing a graveyard at night with a bright moon above shadowy trees and crosses. Numerous indistinct fairy figures, some holding flowers, are gathered. The colours are dark and muted, with touches of red. The painting’s surface is damaged, showing white spots and worn edges. From Reading Museum's collection.
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Illustration of stage set up for Pepper's Ghost, 1865. This famous stage illusion was developed by inventor John Henry Pepper who lived in Colworth Road, Leytonstone in 1890s. 🖼️
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pe... For @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange on spooky art for Halloween! 👻
Illustration by Bertrand showing the stage set up for the Pepper's Ghost illusion, 1865. Source Le Monde Illustré, no. 406, 21 Jan 1865. Author Bertrand (no first name given). Via Creative Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peppers_Ghost.jpg
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Death has many connotations, positive and negative, for each culture. It’s fascinating to observe its vast representations! 💀

This has inspired our choice for this week’s theme #spookyart in @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange 👻

How does your culture celebrate the dead and the living? 🩻
A hand painted tarot card on what appears to be golden tile. The tile depicts Death personified as a skeleton. He wears a red cape and a flat rimmed hat, holding a scythe. Death is personified as a skeleton on a cart pulled by oxen over flat plains. It runs over piles of bodies, people running away in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Spooky Art 👻

We have chosen Death the Bride by Thomas Cooper Gotch.

From a dark sea of blood-red poppies, a spectral bride emerges — veiled in black, crowned with white flowers, her pale smile hovering between innocence and eternity.
October 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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This week @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange Spooky art

What can be more spooky than Witch by Margaret Mellis (1914–2009) from the collection at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC)
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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We're celebrating spooky season for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!

Our pick is William Stewart MacGeorge RSA's Hallowe'en!👻🎃🐈‍⬛
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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It's spooky art for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange for Halloween 👻🐈‍⬛🦇🎃

We have chosen 'The Haunt' by Laurence Stephen Lowry from the collection of The Lowry.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Spooky art is today's #OnlineArtExchange for Halloween 👻

Check out some hauntingly good art in this story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/ghosts-ghouls-and-spectres-hauntingly-good-art

'A Spectre' by unknown artist 📷 John Rylands Research Institute and Library
A ghostly figure draped in a sheer white veil stands in front of a window framed by climbing ivy and plants.
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM