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CBBC Live Lessons … submissions deadline 25 February 2022!

 CBBCs Live Lessons – broadcast on CBBC Video questions for CBBCs guest author, Frank Cotterell Boyce What would a story book based on your life be called? Send in videos or pictures of your book design cover and tell us why you have called it that. Tell us what headline for Newsround you would like to […]

Monet & friends

A immersive exhibition in Sydney, Australia that makes you feel as if you’re stepping into the art works of Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, Degas and many more by creating walkways through giant projections of the paintings…  watch this video and you’ll be amazed!  Monet & Friends Currently on exhibition in Sydney, Australia. ♦♦♦ KidsArt!™ teaches children art […]

Basquiat’s Warrior, 1982 – sold at Christie’s, Hong Kong

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) began as a New York graffiti artist at the age of 17 before his career took off and his early death at 28.  The painting, made in 1982 at a time when Basquiat considered he produced his best works, shows a full-length male figure wielding a sword and ready to strike.  The silhouette is […]

America After the Fall – at The Royal Academy until 4th June 2017

Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940. Oil on canvas. 66.7 x 102.2 cm. Collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, 1943 Photo © 2016. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence The Fall  was the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 which triggered the greatest economic depression in US history. […]

David Hockney at Tate Britain (9 February to 29 May 2017)

Detail from Play Within a Play, 1963.  Private collection.  © David Hockney Hockney is one of the world’s greatest living artists, and the retrospective is Tate Britain’s bestselling exhibition ever.  He still works daily, and is currently designing a large stained glass window in Westminster Abbey to honour the Queen.  Appointed to the Order of Merit […]

Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 – Royal Academy – to 17th April 2017

Boris Kustodiev, The Bolshevik, 1920. Oil on canvas. 101 x 140.5 cm. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Photo © State Tretyakov Gallery The 15-years from the 1917 October Revolution to the devastating collectivisations and industrial reforms in the early 1930’s was a transitory golden age of Russian art, when State and idealistic artists had the same dream of […]