Number four in our top five stories published in 2025 on Art UK is... 'What is life drawing? A history of drawing the nude' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/women-drawing-nudes-a-history-of-forbidden-bodies 'Studies for a Scene of Fighting Youths' by Raphael (1483–1520) 📷 Fitzwilliam Museum

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Reasons to draw ✏️ Got some spare time over the festive break? Find some inspiration to get drawing with these artworks 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/making-connections-reasons-to-draw '02.27.12.2' by Gwen Hardie (b.1962) © the artist. 📷 University of Stirling

We're counting down our top five stories published in 2025! Number five is 'Letting it all hang out: the joy of nude bathing' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/letting-it-all-hang-out-the-joy-of-nude-bathing 🧑‍🎨 Thomas Saunders Nash (1891–1968) © the artist's estate. 📷 Manchester Art Gallery

Our most-viewed Curation of 2025 is... 'Modern art and religion: 20th Century artists and the Crucifixion' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/modern-art-and-religion-20th-century-artists-and-the-crucifixion 🧑‍🎨 Francis Hoyland (b.1930) © the artist's estate. 📷 Arts Council Collection

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How is your Boxing Day looking? ❄️ A cosy day inside eating leftovers, a brisk walk – or perhaps a scene a little like this? Explore festive art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-art 'The Day after Christmas' by Mark Lancelot Symons (1887–1935) 📷 Bury Art Museum

This week we're counting down our most-viewed Curations of 2025. In second place is 'Masters of Landscape Painting' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/masters-of-landscape-painting 'Landscape with a Footbridge' by Albrecht Altdorfer (c.1480–1538) 📷 The National Gallery

The #OnlineArtExchange will be back on the 8th of January 🥳 A huge thanks to everyone who took part in 2025. We hosted 50 exchanges and collaborated with 27 museums and galleries 💗 'A Modern Picture Gallery' by William Frederick Witherington (1785–1865) 📷 National Trust

Merry Christmas! 🎄 It's the last day of our Art UK art advent calendar ✨ 'Old Father Christmas' by William Ewart Lockhart (1846–1900) 📷 The Hunterian, University of Glasgow #ArtAdventCalendar

Number three in our top Curations of 2025 is: 'Depictions of Homoeroticism and Homosexuality in Art between 16th-20th centuries' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/depictions-of-homoeroticism-and-homosexuality-in-art-between-the-16th-20th-centuries William Strang (1859–1921) 📷 Glasgow Life

Happy Christmas Eve 🎅 Here is day 24 of our art advent! 'Christmas Eve, St James' Church, Bushey' by Gordon Metcalfe (b.1935) © the artist. 📷 Bushey Museum and Art Gallery #ArtAdventCalendar

This week we're counting down our most-viewed Curations of 2025. Number four is 200 artworks featuring the UK railway for Railway 200 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/railway-200-celebrating-200-years-of-rail-travel-18252025 🧑‍🎨 Charles Rossiter (1827–1897) 📷 Birmingham Museums Trust

❄️ How much do you know about winter festivals? 🤔 Take our new quiz to find out 👉 https://artukdotorg.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-winter-festivals/ 'Christmas Eve, 1932' by Roberta Louise Jennings (1919–2018). © the artist's estate. 📷 Sheffield Museums

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We're reaching the end of our art advent calendar! Who has been following along? Here's day 23! ❤️🎄 #ArtAdventCalendar 'RSA 1979 Christmas Greetings' by David Pugh Evans (1942–2020) © the artist's estate. 📷 Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture

This week we're counting down our most-viewed Curations of 2025. First up – 'Women's fashion in Jane Austen's time' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/womens-fashion-in-jane-austens-time 'Sophia, Lady Burdett' by Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) 📷 @NPGLondon

Artist Narbi Price recently won Visual Artist of the Year at the North East Culture Awards. Read about his exhibition at Sunderland Museum and his practice in this new interview 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/going-back-brockens-an-interview-with-narbi-price 📷 Colin Davison / GASP Photo Co

We're looking for a Digital Platforms Officer to join the Art UK team 📣 More information and application details 👉 https://artuk.org/about/jobs Apply by 9am on Tuesday 6th January 2026

Not long to go – it's day 22 of our art advent calendar! ⭐ #ArtAdventCalendar 'The Nativity at Night' by Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c.1460–c.1490) 📷 National Gallery

These artworks explore the shortest days and longest nights 🌙 #WinterSolstice The collections featured moved on to the Museum Data Service in 2025, read more and view 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/shortest-days-and-longest-nights#WinterSolstice 🧑‍🎨 Norman Garstin (1847–1926) 📷 Cornwall Museum

Day 21 of the Art UK art advent celebrates the Winter Solstice ❄️ #ArtAdventCalendar Explore Stonehenge in art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/stonehenge-in-art#ArtAdventCalendar 'Blue Stonehenge' by Michele Elizabeth Field (1953–2014) © the artist's estate. 📷 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Watching the World Darts Championship? 🎯 #WCDarts Step up to the oche and enjoy these darts-related artworks. 180! 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/the-luke-littler-effect-a-celebration-of-darts#WCDarts 'Dart Board' by Evan Walters (1893–1951) 📷 Newport Museum and Art Gallery

Feeling calm with Pieter de Hooch's quiet domestic scenes 😌 The Dutch Golden Age painter was baptised #OnThisDay in 1629 📸 Wallace Museum

Day 20 of the Art UK art advent is here 🎀🎅 #ArtAdventCalendar 'Christmas Bows' by Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook (1907–1978) © the artist's estate. 📷 Sir Francis Cook Collection

New story 📣 'Bumps and dips in the skull: phrenology and meme culture' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/bumps-and-dips-in-the-skull-phrenology-and-meme-culture 📷 Wellcome Collection

❄️ How much do you know about winter festivals? 🤔 Take our new quiz to find out 👉 https://artukdotorg.quillforms.app/forms/art-quiz-winter-festivals/ 'Christmas Eve, 1932' by Roberta Louise Jennings (1919–2018). © the artist's estate. 📷 Sheffield Museums

Who were Peggy Airey and Watter Joe? Read about these portraits of local Barnsley characters 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/who-were-peggy-airey-and-watter-joe-portraits-of-local-barnsley-characters/ 📷 Barn-sleigh Museums 🎅 ☃️ 🎄

Less than a week until Christmas! It's day 19 of the Art UK art advent 🎅 #ArtAdventCalendar 'Christmas Eve, 1932 (First Night of the Pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield)' by Roberta Louise Jennings (1919–2018) © the artist's estate. 📷 Sheffield Museums

Thanks for sharing your festive artworks! The #OnlineArtExchange will be back on the 8th January for the first theme of the year, which is angels and guardians with Liverpool Cathedral 🪽 See you then 💗

End of the Glacier Upper Grindelwald, 1949, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham It's the final #onlineartexchange of 2025! Not quite a #christmas scene, but hey. This beauty is currently on display in Turner: Always Contemporary @ the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ❄️🎄🛷🦌

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is Christmas! We've just updated Cynthia Kenny: a city framed at Wakefield Museum with new wonderful wintry scenes. It includes stunning seasonal pieces like this one - 'Winter Morning, Landscape, Crofton' (1979).

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is, of course, Christmas! It looks like we won't be having a white #Christmas this year, so enjoy 'Winter above Ligoniel' by Frederick W. Hull instead. #UlsterMuseum #Art @artukdotorg.bsky.social

It's #OnlineArtExchange! Of course, it only makes sense that the theme is #Christmas @artukdotorg.bsky.social🎄 We've picked a photograph from the Bingley collection: a snowy day on Cardigan Road, and one of John Atkinson Grimshaw's classic luminous paintings of a beautiful moonlit street in Leeds.❄️

Robin Tanner created this etching as a Christmas card in 1930. This example is signed "with love from Fred". Fred is the name he was known by in his family, so this card was likely sent to a relative. @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange! 🎄☃️🎁🎅💫

It's the final #OnlineArtExchange theme of the year – Christmas 🎄🎅 Share your festive artworks with the hashtag! 'St James's Church under Snow on Christmas Eve' by Gordon Metcalfe (b.1935) © the artist. 📷 Bushey Museum and Art Gallery

It's the last #OnlineArtExchange of 2025 on the festive theme of 'Christmas!' We've chosen this lively image of a Christmas market from the collections of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere 🎄🌟 Thanks @artukdotorg.bsky.social for the lovely exchanges this year! www.europeana.eu/en/item/1320...

Day 18 of the Art UK art advent 🎅 #ArtAdventCalendar In this painting dogs, babies and a father attempting to shave all jostle for space at a cramped kitchen table. Can anyone relate? 'The Christmas Tree' by Harry Wilson (1898–1972) © Ashington Group Trustees. 📷 Woodhorn Museum

This year you voted for the world's favourite railway artwork, as part of Railway 200 celebrations 🚂 Check out the top 20 here 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/the-worlds-favourite-railway-artworks 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums / National Gallery

Job alert 📣 We're looking for a Schools Officer to join our friendly team – you will support the delivery of our innovative learning programme, The Superpower of Looking. Apply by 9am on Tuesday 13th January 2026 👉 https://artuk.org/about/jobs

It's day number 17 on the Art UK art advent calendar 🎄 #ArtAdventCalendar We love this cosy Christmas tree scene, framed by red curtains. 'Christmas Tree Viewed through Red Curtains' by Charles Mahoney (1903–1968) © the artist's estate. 📷 Museum of the Home

British novelist Jane Austen was born #OnThisDay in 1775 🎈 There is only one confirmed portrait of her in existence, by Jane's sister Cassandra. Explore Jane Austen's England in art 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 'Jane Austen' by Cassandra Austen (1773–1845) 📸 National Portrait Gallery

Wassily Kandinsky was born #OnThisDay in 1866 (N.S) Discover what a Kadinsky painting tastes like to a synaesthete whose senses of sight, hearing and taste are connected. 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/what-does-a-kandinsky-painting-taste-like#OnThisDay 🧑‍🎨 Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) 📸 Tate

It's day 16 of the Art UK art advent calendar! ✨ #ArtAdventCalendar Here's a classic snowy scene 🌨️ 'Snow Scene at Argenteuil' by Claude Monet (1840–1926) 📷 National Gallery

New #job Schools Officer (North) Superpower of Looking @artukdotorg.bsky.social #Nationwide Apply by 13th January 2026 Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/schools... #GEMJobs #Jobs #MuseumLearningJobs #MuseumJobs #HeritageJobs #YouthJobs

Born #OTD in 1903, artist John Piper: here's a piece I wrote for @artukdotorg.bsky.social a while back about one of the many Piper artworks at the Red House, and what it tells us about his relationship with Britten and Pears> artuk.org/discover/sto... 1/2

How many artworks can you spot? 👀 David Teniers II (born #OnThisDay) made 11 views of Archduke Leopold William's gallery, with most paintings identifiable. This is one of the most elaborate, painted in 1651 during his first year as Court Painter. 📷 National Trust

Day 15 of the Art UK art advent calendar! ✨🎄 #ArtAdventCalendar We're sharing a festive artwork every day until Christmas. 'Christmas Cheer' by Henry John Yeend King (1855–1924) 📷 Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

Day 14 of the Art UK art advent 🌟 #ArtAdventCalendar We had to include a snowy Kyffin Williams painting in our advent! 'The Gathering (Farmers on Glyder Fach)' by Kyffin Williams (1918–2006) © The National Library of Wales. #ArtAdventCalendar

Today is #StLucysDay ✨ The patron saint of electricians and ophthalmologists is recognisable in paintings as the saint holding her eyes on a plate. Identify female saints in art 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/saintly-symbols-how-to-identify-ten-female-saints-in-art 📷 Wellcome Collection