Learning consultant Philip Webb explores why books and films are so important for getting children engaged with literacy.
Fancy a sneak peek at some of the objects making their way here for our Moving Stories exhibition? Yeah you do (hint: they’re awesome).
We’ve joined forces with Seven Stories to create our very first exhibition designed especially for families. Let’s talk about Moving Stories…
Irna Qureshi traces the history and meaning of a fascinating variety of movie marketing: the unique, hand-painted Bollywood poster.
Roy Exley explores the art of the still life photograph and its 200-year history.
Brian Liddy investigates the still life in art and photography—with its roots in the vanitas tradition, is the genre inherently morbid?
On 4 July 1862 Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Rev. Robinson Duckworth took three little girls—Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell—on a rowing trip up the Isis in Oxford.
Until recently it was believed that there was only one print of Roger Fenton’s ’Pasha and Bayadère’ in existence, at the Getty Institute in Los Angeles; then another was discovered in the UK.
Beth Hughes takes an in-depth look at a Richard Billingham image from our latest exhibition.
The Life Online launch is now just over two weeks away, and the team working on the [open source] exhibition are busy installing four brand new artworks.
Anna takes a behind-the-scenes look at our latest exhibition.
Erin Newell and Phil Bird’s artwork 1 and another celebrates the web’s open source spirit of sharing and collaboration.