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Andrew Shore
@andrewshore.bsky.social
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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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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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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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Some American artists in UK collections for #4thJuly artuk.org/discover/sto... @artukdotorg.bsky.social
Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 (The Siege of Gibraltar) John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) Guildhall Art Gallery
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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It’s Ascension Day today. This @artukdotorg.bsky.social piece collects together some of the representations of it in art, including ones with ‘disappearing feet’ artuk.org/discover/sto...
The Ascension of Christ by Albrecht Dürer. c.1510, Woodcut from the Small Passion. British Museum. A crowd of people look upwards to disappearing feet at the top of the image.
May 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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It’s the Feast Day of Saint Sebastian, so here’s a story about the saint as a gay icon artuk.org/discover/sto...
Saint Sebastian, c.1630–1635, oil on canvas by Guido Reni (1575–1642). Dulwich Picture Gallery
January 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Who’s the saint with her eyes on a plate? That’s right, Saint Lucy, whose feast day is today. See more depictions of her here artuk.org/discover/peo...
Saint Lucy holding her eyes on a dish. Oil on panel painting by the Master of the Lee Triptych (active c.1500). Image credit: The Courtauld, London
December 13, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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Enjoy a lovely festive @artukdotorg.bsky.social podcast featuring @gregjenner.bsky.social on the bizarre art of Victorian Christmas cards artuk.org/discover/sto...
A clown creeps up behind a policeman with a poker. The obvious choice for a Christmas card. A frog has robbed and stabbed another frog with the caption ‘A Merry Christmas to you’.
December 9, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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As it’s St Nicholas’s Feast Day here’s a piece I wrote about him in art, with bonus hovercraft artuk.org/discover/sto...
‘Super Santa 4’ acrylic painting on paper by Peter Thorn. Santa and six reindeer are having a party on the deck of a hovercraft, in the sea, seemingly pursued by another hovercraft with a different Santa and reindeer. The white cliffs are in the background. © and image credit: The Hovercraft Museum Trust
December 6, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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I don’t use Spotify for various reasons (owning thousands of CDs is just one), so here’s ‘recently played’ on my phone… (from a playlist set to random containing thousands of songs from the 50s to the 2000s)
December 5, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Here’s my son playing Silent Night on guitar, for Sutton Music Service’s Advent Calendar (on other social channels)
December 4, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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For St Andrew’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 here’s a whole load of Scottish artists artuk.org/discover/sto...
The Druids: Bringing in the Mistletoe, 1890 painting by George Henry (1858–1943) and Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864–1933) Glasgow Life Museums The Green Bottle, mid-1920s, a still life painting by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937) National Galleries of Scotland Les joueurs c.1907, a painting of three men playing cards by Mary Cameron (1864–1921). Museums & Galleries Edinburgh – City of Edinburgh Council
November 30, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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As the final of Bake Off seems to be on here’s a look back at when Art UK joined in with #GBBO artuk.org/discover/sto...
Nine square cupcakes with the Art UK logo in different colours George Stubbs’s Whistlejacket in cake form, baked and decorated by my wife. A couple of Playmobil figures are admiring the art/cake. Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man on a cake, decorated by my wife. Tasted like the Renaissance. My wife copying Vitruvian Man onto a cake. I am still impressed by this six years on!
November 26, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Continuing my theme of forgetting saints’ days, it was Saint Catherine’s feast day on 25 Nov. Here’s how to spot her in art artuk.org/discover/sto...
Self portrait as Saint Catherine by Artemisia Gentileschi. National Gallery, London. Saint Catherine by Raphael. National Gallery, London. Saint Catherine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Tate.
November 26, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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I forgot to post about St Cecilia on her feast day (22 November) so here’s a belated look at the patron saint of music in art artuk.org/discover/sto...
Saint Cecilia playing the viol, after Domenichino. Royal College of Music. The music stand is some kind of cherub. Saint Cecilia by Guercino. Dulwich Picture Gallery. She’s playing a small organ. Saint Cecilia playing an organ, by Frederick Marriott. Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston
November 25, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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I have a feeling this will turn out badly for the hog in December artuk.org/discover/art...
Stained glass depiction of a man kneeling down to kill a hog with a knife. Designed by wombat enthusiast Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
November 22, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Winter gloom is here! Embrace it like these artists did artuk.org/discover/sto...
Winter Evening by Ruskin Spear. © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: City & County of Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Collection
November 22, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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The art of lying – including Jacob Rees-Mogg as Ophelia artuk.org/discover/sto...
Painting of Sir Edward Herbert by Isaac Oliver – an Elizabethan man lying down in a forest. Image credit: National Trust, from Powis Castle Jacob Rees-Mogg as Millais’ Ophelia. Originally tweeted by Gaz Weetman back in 2019.
November 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Now listening my way through the complete Byrd edition (in a cold dark car during kids’ music lessons). As Byrd intended, no doubt.
CD cover of the Byrd Edition vol 3 by The Cardinall’s Musick
November 20, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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Take a dive into the colourful abstract works of Sir Frank Bowling artuk.org/discover/sto...
Artist Frank Bowling sitting in front of one of his abstract works. Photo: Mathilde Agius
November 20, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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As farming has been in the news here’s a story about rectangular cows you might find in art artuk.org/discover/sto...
Sussex Cow ‘Joan’ by James Clark Senior (1860–1902). Image credit: Museum of English Rural Life. A painting of a large rectangular shaped brown cow faces left.
November 19, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Discover how William Morris was influenced by Islamic manuscripts in this piece by Qaisra Khan artuk.org/discover/sto...
‘Medway’ printed cotton design by William Morris, 1885. A floral pattern. Image credit: William Morris Gallery
November 19, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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Here’s a recent piece by Norena Shopland on John Gibson and Penry Williams, queer Welsh artists in 19th-century Rome artuk.org/discover/sto...
John Gibson’s ‘Sleeping Shepherd Boy’, a plaster sculpture from 1818. Image credit: Royal Academy of Arts
November 18, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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This was the first one I remember at home. Moved onto an Amiga 500…
Cardboard box showing components of a Commodore 16 computer from the 1980s
November 18, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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Ahead of the next episode of Wolf Hall tonight here’s @estelleprnq.bsky.social on depictions of Thomas Cromwell artuk.org/discover/sto...
Portrait of Thomas Cromwell, facing left. Copy after Hans Holbein the younger, from the National Portrait Gallery, London
November 17, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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A recent story about a few of the Glasgow Girls – forgotten heroines of Scottish art – by Louise Jacquier artuk.org/discover/sto...
The Frog Prince by Jessie Marion King, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
November 16, 2024 at 1:52 PM