Let’s go gallery hopping!
Many great cultural institutions around the world can be accessed from your own home. Have an explore for artistic interpretations similar to your artistic practice, but also use this opportunity to discover new art...
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Concert roulette – a new way of discovering classical music
Are you a classical music buff, or do your music tastes lie in different directions? Do you always listen to the same style of music? Here is a new way of discovering classical music…’spin...
Royal Opera House – performances via YouTube
The Royal Opera House are kindly sharing some of their performances via their YouTube channel. It is part of their #OurHouseToYourHouse series. It includes current performances as well as historical ones. Our music and...
Box of Broadcasts keeps on giving
How often have you thought, ‘Oh, I wish I’d see that programme’ when it had been broadcast?’, or ‘I’ve missed watching this other programme on catch-up’? This is where Box of Broadcasts, fondly known...
All those questions about art you wanted to ask
National Galleries Scotland have got an excellent YouTube Channel which poses the questions you wish you knew the answer to. Here are a selection: Why can’t I touch art? What makes an artwork iconic?...
Walk of Art – Tate podcasts
Plug in and listen to the Walk of Art podcasts created by the Tate. Grace Dent on the Young British Artists and Shoreditch Emma Gannon on Barbara Hepworth and St Ives Dolly Alderton on...
Culture in quarantine – Durham University’s response
You may have heard about the BBC’s initiative Culture in Quarantine, which is bringing arts and culture into your home during the current lockdown. Durham University’s Learning and Engagement have been inspired by this,...
Call from Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens: Collecting Covid
Please find below a call from Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens for students and residents in Sunderland. We are living through extraordinary times. Can you help Sunderland Museum record this moment in the City’s...
NGC Online: No Strings – Beads in a Modern Context
Suzie, our Academic Liaison Librarian for Art and Design, encourages you visit the National Glass Centre’s No Strings online exhibition. It runs until 13th September 2020 so you have plenty of time to visit....
Glass Art Society – free virtual conference – 21-23 May
Have you heard? The Glass Art Society is hosting a Virtual Conference —free and open to the public at glassart.org starting Thursday 21st May! They’re working with glass artists from all over the world...
How are artists responding to the coronavirus?
Artists are responding to the Covid-19 virus in different ways. Has any of your practice changed in response to the lockdown? Have you been moved to respond creatively? These are some ways artists are...
Fashion and Textile updates
The Fashion and Textile Museum in London have got a great blog where their staff are sharing lots of gems of information. Here are a selection of recent posts: They are producing a series...
Eclectic online sources for music
Studying for music covers such a wide range of genres, interests, instruments, voices….and the list goes on. Here is an eclectic selection of online resources for you to explore: The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO)...
Performing Arts online journal articles
Are you itching to read more articles on performing arts? To celebrate 10 years of Theatre Dance and Performance Training, an article from each year has been made freely available online. The open-access Theatre...
Are you interested in printmaking?
Then go and explore Laura Boswell’s YouTube channel. Laura has launched her first in-depth tutorial series. From initial drawing to final framing, she explains every step of her most recent linocut, along with extra...