As we’re all spending so much time at home and as many organisations are providing new digital output, we thought it might be useful to compile a list of online resources of, well, various arty things.  We hope to update this regularly so do keep checking back – and suggest your own links.

 

Art Fund Newsletter

The Art Fund newsletter is a good summary of what’s going on.

“Each time our newsletter lands in your inbox, we’ll be rounding up the best ways to access art in the digital space, keeping your virtual diaries packed with cultural activities. This week we recommend some of the most absorbing museum tours and online collections available right now, from exploring the British Museum to perusing archaeological and anthropological collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.”

 

Arts on iPlayer

“Look out for a series of films taking you behind the scenes of exhibitions including London Calling: 40 Years of the Clash at the Museum of London, created in partnership with Art Fund and the BBC for #MuseumFromHome.”

This is the BBC Arts home page and here’s the iPlayer home page.

 

English Touring Opera

“Not a lot of things can lift your spirits as well as belting out a song! So why not learn to sing like an opera singer with English Touring Opera in this series of singing lessons.

Each week a different opera singer will teach you a new technique and set you homework, so tune in and get singing.”

Join in here.

 

Kate Davies

Kate Davies Designs was established by Kate Davies in 2010, when a stroke at the age of 36 ended career as a literary academic While recovering from her stroke, Kate supported herself by designing digital patterns for hand-knitting, established an independent publishing company, and began to produce books that combined her skills as author and designer.  In her blog, Kate writes about crafts, art and the area around her Scottish home.  Her husband, a photographer, also contributes.

This blog post talks about her virtual visit to the Rijksmuseum and their collection of darning samplers and this one is about how galleries and museums are using virtual and digital exhibitions.

Royal Academy

‘Inside our Manet Exhibition’ – the latest documentary from the Royal Academy.  Dave Sharps says there’s “lots of other good stuff on the site, which might be of interest to members.”

 

Grayson Perry’s Art Club

“In an exciting new project for Channel 4, one of Britain’s leading artists – Grayson Perry – will help bring the nation together through art, and unleash our collective creativity as we live through an unprecedented crisis. Every week, he will host the show from his own studio – taking the country with him as he creates his own new art works. Grayson will talk to other famous artists and creatives about how they are spending their time in isolation and host masterclasses to help teach us all how to create art. He’ll also be asking members of the public to send him their own fantastic artworks which they have been making at home, talking to them via video calls and choosing artworks he loves in each episode. He will encourage viewers to use their time in isolation to produce visual representations of the unique time we are living through. And at the end, Grayson will display the art created in a public exhibition that will chronicle the changing moods of Britain in isolation and provide a record of the historic times we’ve lived through. “

Keep an eye out for Grayson’s weekly challenges.  Our own Cally Lawson has been featured on the show.