To art without being seen as rude/out of place and that’s constructive critique. Leave actual harsh critique to experts and curators. Your personal taste is useless to an artist cause they’re not enacting your vision but their own. People have to learn to stfu unless it’s helpful

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There's definitely witchcraft at work in this painting by Edward Burra from the Kirklees collection.

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Today, for we hear from contributing artist and co-curator of the Ancient Mariner Big Read Angela Cockayne. Angela shares the relevance of The Rime today and her interpretation of this iconic text - https://t.co/TZEMo1r3eL

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🧙‍♀️Today's theme is

We have a jet pendant of Medusa. Jet is electrostatic - rubbing it would produce a static charge attracting cloth & hair fibres. This fascinated the as it gave a supernatural effect!

CAN YOU BEAT IT?💥

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Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete? https://t.co/vmGBx0ZNgF via

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Hard Truths: Will Museums’ Digital Plans Make Curators Obsolete?: Who will survive in an art world run by algorithms? https://t.co/YelkgwPRVc

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a drow rogue commission! (for shurimancurator over on tumblr)

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Curatorial assistant Casey Monahan’s research led to new insight on a celebrated 18th-century vessel by Wedgwood & Sons https://t.co/bKJdDw6Dr7

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I'm reminded of how artists are the creators of new and possible worlds especially when I melt into the Unseen Versailles series by photographer Deborah Turbeville

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Together with , we invited students in the U.S. to submit portraits for an online exhibition. “To see these young people take this medium and make it their own is very 2020,” said the show’s curator. See the selected artists: https://t.co/g7lrq279fc

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"Rooster and Willow" painted by Ito Jakuchu, one of the most popular Japanese painter in 18th century
Look how powerful I am!

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The Cabinet is Numero’s tribute to the origin of the DIY museum, with our curatorial focus as always on the heroically home-made, the expanding fan universe, the suburban studio sublime.

https://t.co/5TEvOnSYmV

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In our latest blog post, Assistant Collections and Learning Curator Karen Banton talks about some of her favourite cases from our Ogilvie bird collection and what the letters, sketches and photographs in our archives taught her about them. Read it here: https://t.co/TwG3syN0EW

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To honor our curators handpicked a collection of colorful artworks to celebrate the women in our lives, including powerful portraits, works inspired by love, and art that shows gratitude. https://t.co/O6oh3cE399

[Abstract II by Tim Fowler]

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‘Everyone is a sinner’ writes our Curatorial Fellow Joost Joustra in ‘#Sin: The Art of Transgression’. You can learn more about sin within the history of art in our exhibition catalogue: https://t.co/hIOfniMITe

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Another choice by curator, Kat, is Sir Joshua Reynold's 'Lady Bampfylde' (1776-77) held at the .

We have a mezzotint engraving by Thomas Watson of the same image, apparently so sought-after they turned Lady Bampfylde into an 18thC pin-up!

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