We are excited to be taking part in our first Bluesky #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social on the theme 'animals'! We've chosen this print of two hardworking beavers from the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social collections 🦫 www.europeana.eu/item/90402/R...

Are you a cat person or a dog person? 🐱 🐶 We're asking the hard questions for today's #animals #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social Let us know in the replies 👇 📷 N.B., Cats in a Basket, n.d. GS/15/02/1985/1 @beamishmuseum.bsky.social 📷 J. Hepworth, Dogs in a Stable, 1835. LEEUA 2002.059

Today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is animals! 🐴🐕 Our choice is Alfred Munnings’ Lamorna Inn (1915), featuring landlord Mr Jory, his mare Bess, & Taffy the terrier. Munnings later added himself leaning in the doorway to this lively Cornish scene. @munningsartmuseum.bsky.social

Animals are the theme for this week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange This sunny scene is 'Calves Resting' by 'Glasgow Boy' David Gauld (1865-1936) artuk.org/discover/art... #ScottishArt

This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is all about animals. We couldn't miss this opportunity to share one of our favourites, the rather unfairly titled "Beauty and the Beast" by Charles Burton Barber, painted in 1878. 1931.320.1 🦚🐖 Reading Museum 📷

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is animals! Taxidermy is art, right? A taxidermied beloved pet dog from the 1900s is definitely art. Rosie *is* art.

This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is animals! 🐄 Sculptor Richard Cowdy's bronze calf commemorates Chippenham's former cattle market. The maquette is held in our collection, and the full bronze sculpture stands in Borough Parade Shopping Centre. artuk.org/discover/a...

Animals is the #OnlineArtExchange theme today 🐈 We've gone for cats and 'By Road & Rail in Catland' by Louis Wain from Victoria & Albert Museum #cats #animals #art #CatsOfBluesky

Animals is today's #OnlineArtExchange theme, which makes it the perfect time to share the latest addition to our art collection! This is a gouache illustration by E.H. Whydale (we may have mentioned him once or twice) from 'Ponies and Holidays' by Mary Gervaise, published in 1950.

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is all things animals 🐈🦓🐦 Discover the top ten zebras on Art UK by @artandecology.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/xicMzTT 'Zebra' by George Stubbs (1724–1806) 📷 Yale Center for British Art

Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is animals! 🐶🦓🐦 Art UK is filled with animal artworks, take a look 👉 buff.ly/aeA1QB5 'Black and White Puppy Lying on a Bed' by James McBey (1883–1959) © Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums.

Elizabeth Blackadder was born #OnThisDay in 1931 🎂 Read more about the amazing versatility of her work 👉 buff.ly/3spKuIL 'Cat and Flowers' by Elizabeth V. Blackadder (1931–2021) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. 📷 Fleming Art Collection

'The Sleepers' exhibition at The Women's Art Collection invites us to reconsider rest 🛌💤 Read more 👉 buff.ly/JkSwinR Find out more on Bloomberg Connects 👉 buff.ly/aSMXxqB 🧑‍🎨 Gwendolen Raverat (1885–1957) © estate of Gwen Raverat. All rights reserved, DACS 2025. 📷 The Women's Art Collection

Read about the importance of bisexual+ representation in art collections in this story 👉 buff.ly/6mBQVd6 #CelebrateBisexualityDay 'Cecil Beaton' by Francis Goodman (1913–1989) © National Portrait Gallery

Happy Autumn Equinox 🍂✨ 'Autumn Equinox' by Joyce W. Cairns (b.1947) © the artist. 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

This month’s #OnlineArtExchange theme from @artukdotorg is 'Impressive Buildings' with @livcathedral, for which we've chosen this Alfred Wolmark oil painting. The Flatiron Building, New York, c.1919. Alfred Aaron Wolmark (1877–1961). © Estate of Alfred Aaron Wolmark. All rights reserved, DACS 2025

Peace, hope and dove 🕊️✌️ Explore this Curation of murals representing peace for #InternationalDayOfPeace 👉 buff.ly/k4w5GWR 1) 🧑‍🎨 Dave Panit (b.1955) © the artist. 📷 Barry De Morgan / Art UK 2) 🧑‍🎨 Karl Read (b.1980) © the artist. 📷 Paul Francis / Art UK

Get your weekly art boost with the Art UK newsletter 💌 This week's newsletter focused on drawing 👉 buff.ly/9XaCUIF Subscribe 👉 buff.ly/sb6GQUJ 'Seraph' by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) 📷 Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries

It's time for another Friday art quiz 💡🍂 We've teamed up with @arthistorysta.bsky.social to bring you a weekly quiz! This week's theme is autumn 👉 buff.ly/RTReIT6 'Autumn' by Bessie MacNicol (1869–1904) 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

Beneath Shropshire's tranquil surface lies a canvas of street art 🖌️ Read more in this new story 👉 buff.ly/3Q4rFuZ 'Elephant Looking from a Window' by Grace Jandrell (b.1997) © the artist. 📷 Michael and Janet Richardson / Art UK

Thanks for sharing some impressive buildings today! ⛪ We're back next week with the theme animals 🐈🦓🐦 'Ducal Palace Door, Venice, Italy' by Antonietta Brandeis (1849–1920) 📷 Gloucester Museums Service Art Collection

This week’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange looks at impressive buildings! 🏛️ Ian Chamberlain’s ‘Fort’ etchings reimagine the Maunsell Sea Forts as monuments, using traditional etching to capture their technological and architectural forms.

Call us biased, but there's no #building more impressive than a well-stocked library Here's the columned reading room of Birmingham Reference Library alongside our very own Brotherton Library @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social

#OnlineArtExchange We don't have many buildings in our collection, but we do have a lovely painting of our Museum by Elaine P. Stamp. @artukdotorg.bsky.social

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is impressive buildings. We've opted for 'Interior of Thurnall's Sitting Room' by Harry Joseph Thurnall (1846–1925), showing this impressive fireplace.

We’re sharing one of visitor favourites for #OnlineArtExchange this week, the impressive Basilica of San Marco! 🖼️Western Façade of the Basilica of San Marco, Venice 👨‍🎨John Wharlton Bunney (1828–1882) 📸Sheffield Museums

Impressive buildings is the #OnlineArtExchange theme today The Colosseum by John Inigo Richards from Yale Center for British Art @artukdotorg.bsky.social #art #painting #BlueskyArt #Rome

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is impressive buildings with Liverpool Cathedral ⛪ View some of their collection on @artukdotorg.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/ERZOkmF We've chosen this painting of Leh Palace by John Frederick Cheetham (1835–1916) which he painted while on a tour of the Himalayas

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is impressive buildings. How much more impressive can you get than a castle? 🏰 This is Alexander Keirincx's painting of Pontefract Castle. Keirincx was commissioned to paint it by Charles I around 1640. On display at Pontefract Museum (1 / 2)

This week @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is looking at Impressive buildings with Liverpool Cathedral @livcathedral Orkney's own Impressive St Magnus Cathedral has many exceptional features including this Font created by Alan Stout in 1987

We’re looking at impressive buildings for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Our pick is John McAslan RSA’s King’s Cross Station Refurbishment. This architectural drawing is McAslan’s Diploma Deposit!

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is impressive buildings with Liverpool Cathedral ⛪ The cathedral is filled with amazing artworks, view some of the collection on Art UK 👉 buff.ly/ERZOkmF 🧑‍🎨 James Alphege Brewer (1881–1946) 📷 Rob Battersby / Liverpool Cathedral

Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is impressive buildings with @LivCathedral ⛪ We're looking forward to seeing your choices! 'Marischal College, Aberdeen' by Steven MacIver (b.1979) © the artist. 📷 University of Aberdeen

Could you be our next Chair? Art UK seeks an experienced and dynamic Chair of Trustees with a strong interest in how digital technologies can democratise access to the UK's national collection of art. Apply by 5pm Monday 6th October 2025 👉 artuk.org/about/jobs

Get your weekly art boost with the Art UK newsletter 💌 This week's newsletter focused on that 'back to school' feeling 👉 buff.ly/1lhVsJu Subscribe 👉 buff.ly/sb6GQUJ 'Going to School' by William Jordan 📷 Kirklees Museums and Galleries

Coral Woodbury’s work examines art history and the persistent exclusion of women artists from its material record. Discover more in this new interview 👉 buff.ly/tYaylJz 'Revised Edition: Lubaina Himid' by Coral Woodbury (b.1971) © the artist. 📷 The Women's Art Collection

Fancy another one? 📝🎨 A bonus for our first week, try our next art quiz on woodcut 👉 3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-qu... 'Cosmographiae Universalis' by Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) 📷 American Museum & Gardens @arthistorysta.bsky.social

Introducing our new Friday art quiz 💡🌟 We've teamed up with @arthistorysta.bsky.social to bring you a weekly quiz! First up: How well do you know Surrealism? 👉 3081ca794b59.quillforms.app/forms/art-qu... 🧑‍🎨 Marion Elizabeth Adnams (1898–1995) © the artist's estate. 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

Thanks for taking part in our Victorian #OnlineArtExchange 🙌 We're back next week with the theme impressive buildings with Liverpool Cathedral 'The Music Lesson' by Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) 📷 City of London Corporation

As it's a Victorian theme for this week's #OnlineArtExchange for @artukdotorg.bsky.social we couldn't resist adding this entertaining mathematical sketch from one of the girls of the Mount School, York, in 1895.

Today's #OnlineArtExchange for @artukdotorg.bsky.social is ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House We've chosen 'Between the Lights' by Henry Willink. The climbers in the pool of light between the lanterns still resonates today.

There’s a Victorian theme for #OnlineArtExchange today. We’re sharing a slightly different view of a Victorian school than expected; the children playing while their teacher is away! 🖼️When the Cat’s Away the Mice Will Play 👨‍🎨Théophile Emmanuel Duverger (1821–1901) 📸Sheffield Museums

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘Victorian’, to celebrate the exhibition ‘Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle' at Leighton House. Painter W. G. Mackenzie studied in Belfast, London and Paris and was a regular exhibitor at the Belfast Art Society.

As part of @artukdotorg.bsky.social  's #OnlineArtExchange, we present this historic certificate, printed at Edinburgh Printmakers. Image: National Library of Scotland - Robert Louis Stevenson Day Certificate (2016)🧵

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House. 🎨 A Victorian Debutante by Robert Hope by Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums #Art #Victorian #BlueskyArt @artukdotorg.bsky.social

This week's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is celebrating all things ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House & Sambourne House Here's Deerness, Mull Head, Orkney 1895 by Robert Gallon (1845–1925) from the Orkney Museum

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House. We have chosen Jubilee Procession in a Cornish Village, June 1897 by George Sherwood Hunter, which is owned by the Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery.

We've selected this work by an unknown artist for @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange. This oil on board painting is a copy after Albert Moore's Dreamers, and is dated between 1876 and 1901!

Today's #OnlineArtExchange is ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House Discover more with this Curation 👉 buff.ly/12orMbu 'Apricots' by Albert Joseph Moore (1841–1893) 📷 London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

Tomorrow's #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘Victorian’ for Victorian Treasures from Cecil French and Scott Thomas Buckle at Leighton House See you there! 👋 'Sketch for 'At the Fountain' by Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) 📷 Cecil French Bequest, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham