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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #onlineartexchange theme is Time, for 'Tony Foster: Exploring Time' at #Conwall #Museum.

This is "Day and Night" by Edward Robert Hughes (1851 -1914).
August 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is religion for Fragments of Devotion: A Sensory History of Illuminated Manuscript Cuttings’ at The Barber Institute.

This is John Byam Shaw's 'The Victory of #Christ' (1899).
August 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This week's theme from #OnlineArtExchange from
@artukdotorg.bsky.social is the Female Form to mark 'Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting' exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery.

Here's Tamara de Lempicka's La Belle Rafaëla (1927).
June 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This week's theme from #OnlineArtExchange from
@artukdotorg.bsky.social is the Female Form to mark 'Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting' exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery.

Here's Auguste Toulmouche's Vanity (1889).
June 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Today's #onlineartexchange theme, with @artukdotorg.bsky.social , is "orange".

This is Byam Shaw's , "Now is the Pilgrim Year Fair Autumn's Charge".
May 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We’re here in Liverpool for #ICOMUK25

Day 1 features a fantastic conference programme focused on regenerative practices for #museums.

@icomuk.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Today's #onlineartexchange theme, with @artukdotorg.bsky.social , is "orange".

This is Egon #Schiele's "Woman kneeling in an Orange dress" (1910).
May 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Cat doesn't want to play, so pretending to be asleep.
April 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
We look inside the Wizarding World of #HarryPotter at #EpicUniverse. #jkrowling

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April 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We're here in #Orlando to explore Universal’s newest hotel, Terra Luna Resort, and visit something truly #Epic this weekend...

#BritishAirwaysHolidays @universalorl.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is "moonlight" for Atkinson Grimshaw: At Home in Yorkshire at
@ScarbsMuseums.

This is Mucha's "Clair de Lune" (1902)

(There's a new #Mucha #Museum in Prague. We spoke to the artist's great-grandson Marcus. tinyurl.com/3cxf37ym)
March 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is "moonlight" for Atkinson Grimshaw: At Home in Yorkshire at
@scarbsmuseums.bsky.social

Here's "Hilltop Farm, Winter", (1949) by Maxfield Parrish.
March 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is "moonlight" for Atkinson Grimshaw: At Home in Yorkshire at @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social.

Another genius with moonlit landscapes was Maxfield Parrish. This is, "Moonlight - Deep Snow" (1944).
March 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
And here's his father.
February 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today's #onlineartexchange is "#Valentine's and Palentine's".

This is "The Pale Complexion of True Love" (1898) by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, bought last year by @museeorsay.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Today's #onlineartexchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is "#Valentine's and Palentine's".

Here's a study for the Butterfly Couple by JC Leyendecker (1923).
February 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Today's #OnlineArtExchange is #textile art for ‘Spotlight On 4: Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham #Museum

Mary Ireland's Our Lady in Blue & Gold (1950) .

She created "fabric mosaics": fragments of antique textiles, with hands/face painted onto silk.
February 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today's #OnlineArtExchange is #textile art for ‘Spotlight On 4: Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham #Museum

This is John Byam Shaw's Queen of Hearts (1896).
February 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #OnlineArtExchange is #textile art for ‘Spotlight On 4: Modern & Contemporary Art from the Collection of Chippenham #Museum

The Shadow (1935) by Mary Ireland.

She created "fabric mosaics": fragments of antique textiles, with hands/face painted onto silk.
February 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
It's the beautiful, and very delicate, Chamber of Secrets #snake door at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London.

#jkrowling's work has been hugely influential in the #themepark business.

Here's a look at the world's major #HarryPotter attractions.

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February 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Fantastic #ISE2025 keynote from @briansolis.bsky.social.

On why #AI is good for business.

"This is quite literally a control, alt, delete moment. That means you have to imagine how you reboot yourself."
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The National Botanic #GardenofWales is spectacular. Looking forward to revisiting in the summer.
January 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This was in a shelter a hundred yards from #DylanThomas' boat house in #Laugharne.

We think he'd have liked it.

#poetry #wales
January 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #onlineartexchange is "interiors & homes" for Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury
at The Pallant Gallery.

This is Charles Robinson Sykes' "Woman stepping into a bath", undated. (He is best known for designing the iconic Spirit of Ecstasy mascot on #RollsRoyce cars)
January 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Isaac Newton was such a great man that even his #BluePlaque has its own blue plaque.

#science #maths
January 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM