United Kingdom of Culture: The Arts

Beyond paintings, explore street art, performing arts and more

A nation full of art

Step inside the country's collections

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The National Gallery, London

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Tate Britain

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National Galleries Scotland: Modern

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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

United Kingdom

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The Hepworth Wakefield

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Hayward Gallery

United Kingdom

Take a look around

Get started with a walk, straight from your living room

ExploreThe Hepworth Wakefield
ExploreThe National Gallery
ExploreDulwich Picture Gallery
ExploreBaltic Centre for Contemporary Art
ExploreTate Modern

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Dulwich Picture Gallery

United Kingdom

The Lowry

United Kingdom

Royal Collection Trust, UK

United Kingdom

Arts Council Collection

United Kingdom

National Galleries Scotland: National

United Kingdom

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

United Kingdom

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Zoom into treasured pieces

From stained glass, to tapestries to royal standards

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Monet: The Thames below Westminster

An in-painting tour from the National Gallery, London

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No Woman, No Cry

Tate Britain

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The Wren Window

Explore the Wren Window of St Lawrence Jewry

Get your colour fix

Zoom into Rudi Patterson's landscapes

Public art abounds

Artworks accessible for all

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8 Must See Locations in London for Street Art

You can admire graffiti art almost everywhere in the city, but these selected sites will make your journey around the capital much easier

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England's public sculptures

A tour of artworks in the public realm across England

ExploreAngel of the North, Anthony Gormley
ExploreRedchurch Street Art
ExploreTrafalgar Square, 4th Plinth
ExploreArcelorMittal Orbit, Anish Kapoor

Your art history lesson: The old masters

Re-aquiant yourself with seminal artists from the British Isles

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J.M.W Turner

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William Blake

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John Constable

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William Morris

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John Everett Millais

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

And photographic pioneers

Alchemy and creativity collide in the early photographers

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William Henry Fox Talbot

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Julia Margaret Cameron

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Eadweard Muybridge and the bet that made photographic history

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The Forgotten Story of Anna Atkins

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Christina Broom, pioneering press photographer

Using the body as the medium

Image making through movement

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Living Archive: Creating Choreography with Artificial Intelligence

Delve into the ground-breaking experiment of creating a tool for choreography powered by machine learning

Create your own choreography with the help of Wayne McGregor's archive

25 years of dance in one place

Launch experiment

Art beyond the canvas

Discover artworks across a spectrum of mediums

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Quire Ceiling

St Paul's Cathedral

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Medieval East window at Holy Trinity, York

Churches Conservation Society

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Elysium Closet, Little Castle, Bolsover Castle

English Heritage

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Zucchi ceiling in the Adam Library, Kenwood House

English Heritage

In-painting tour

Zoom into Anne West's Patchwork

Explore this 19th-century patchwork masterpiece in exquisite detail

Discover the world's longest artwork

London's bridges, illuminated

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Meet contemporary talents

From provocative installations to Op Art

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10 seminal moments from the Hayward, with director Ralph Rugoff

Director Ralph Rugoff reflects on the gallery's groundbreaking history

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Artist Jeremy Deller reflects on his 2012 retrospective at the Hayward

Editorial Feature

Banksy

Chris Ofili

Tracey Emin

Evelyn de Morgan

L. S. Lowry

Jonathan Yeo On Turning His Virtual World Into A Reality

Anish Kapoor

Anthony Gormley

Grayson Perry

Yinka Shonibare

David Bailey

Gilbert & George

Nick Knight

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Discover 50 years of art at the Hayward

Celebrating 50 years of Hayward Gallery behind-the-scenes

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Explore more contemporary art

Challenging the notion of art itself – explore the art of our recent past, present and future

Zaha Hadid; pioneer, visonary, legend

A survery with the Serpentine Gallery

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Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings

Serpentine Galleries

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Zaha hadid

Serpentine Galleries

Zaha Hadid at Serpentine Galleries

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Re-discover the Serpentine Pavillions

An artful oasis in the middle of Hyde Park

Explore2016Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
Explore2015selgascano
Explore2016Bjarke Ingels
Explore2017Francis Kéré
Explore2018Frida Escobedo
ExploreChristo's Mastaba, Serpentine Lake 2018

All the world's a stage

Draw back the curtain of top performing arts

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Behind the scenes with RSC

Royal Shakespeare Company

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The Role of the Theatre Designer

National Theatre

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Behind the Scenes at Sadler's Wells

Sadler's Wells

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Meet the Players | Series One

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Shakespeare Company

United Kingdom

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

United Kingdom

Royal College of Music

United Kingdom

Georgian Theatre Royal

United Kingdom

Northern Ballet

United Kingdom

English National Ballet

United Kingdom

See more Shakespeare

Discover a history of Shakespeare on stage

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Painting in 3D with Jonathan Yeo

Step inside the artists journey to creating a sculpture

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From Virtual to Reality: The world's first large scale, 3D printed sculpture

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From Virtual to Reality

Jonathan Yeo creates the world's first large scale, 3D printed sculpture using Tilt Brush

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