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The woman behind the muse: Freud’s paintings of Caroline Blackwood

Lucian Freud’s moving paintings of his second wife are currently on show at Ordovas, London...

Bridgeman Studio Award: Some of our Shortlisted Picks

This year we have been overwhelmed by the number of phenomenal entries for the Bridgeman Studio...

Inside Lucian Freud’s Studio

Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) is one of the most well-known and influential painters of the 20th...

Odilon Redon: 100 years

The 6th July, 2016 marks a century since the death of the French symbolist painter, printmaker,...

An American’s guide to the UEFA European Championship

Soccer, football, kicking a round leather thing down a field and preferably into a net…whatever...

Insight, tips and advice about the Bridgeman Studio Award 2016 in our new podcast

The third Bridgeman Podcast is out and it’s full of interesting information from Lucy Innes...

A good read for summer – Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

At this time of the year newspapers and magazines are always full of favourite books for the...

Relax with Yoko Honda: Success for 2015 Bridgeman Studio Award Winner

Taking inspiration from retro pop culture, this Japanese artist brings the disco era back to...

Lost In Motion

We are proud to introduce the utterly mesmerising Richard Balzer Collection, a warped world of...

Capability Brown: Celebrating 300 years of England’s ‘best gardener’

2016 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the UK’s greatest landscape architects, ...

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