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Order your copy of the M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds exhibition catalogue, written by curator Kathleen Soriano.

Stuart Semple brings his Festival of Happiness to Dulwich Picture Gallery on Saturday 30 July. Prolific, provocative, passionate, Stuart Semple is renowned for his witty, thought-provoking and challenging artworks created in media ranging from painting, film and public art to sculpture and installation. The Festival will also be the site of a new immersive work, 'Something Else'.

We invited members of the local community to share their thoughts on artworks in our exhibition.

Artist Tom Hunter's photograph 'A Woman Reading a Possession Order' is from a series of images of a squatter's community in Hackney, East London. In this video, he caught up with the woman in the photo, 25 years later.

Helen Frankenthaler has long been associated with Abstract Expressionism. Cora Chalaby explores how the rich body of woodcuts positions her practice within a different movement - the American Print Renaissance.

While the rest of the world is constructing false truths on April Fool's Day, we thought we'd share some fun facts about the Gallery’s history and collection, some of which are hard to believe are true.

Madame Butterfly is Helen Frankenthaler’s woodcut print masterpiece. Radical Beauty Curator Jane Findlay explores the painstaking process behind this enormous work.

Curatorial Assistant, Phoebe Evans takes a closer look at Venus and Mercury, the largest of two fragments of an early painting by Nicolas Poussin.

In November, Dulwich Picture Gallery welcomed a pair of Canaletto’s finest view paintings. Made during the artist’s visits to England from 1746 to 1755, the two works allow us to step back in time to an impression of eighteenth-century London, where beauty is privileged over gritty urban life.

Dulwich Picture Gallery was deeply saddened to hear of the death of the Gallery’s Patron, Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover, KG. He was Chair of Trustees at the Gallery (1994 - 2000) during a formative period in its history.

Cora Chalaby explores Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Butterfly - an extraordinary woodcut which sits in the final room of our exhibition.

Get your Christmas shopping wrapped up early this year with our guide to the ultimate art-inspired gifts.

Helen Frankenthaler was painter, printmaker, sculptor, ceramicist and one-time set designer. PhD candidate Cora Chalaby explores Frankenthaler’s oeuvre by highlighting a range of her works in different media.

‘The Health Centre’s Quilt’, a 2D artwork by local artist collective Bamidele Awoyemi, Farouk Agoro and Livia Wang, is now on display at Tessa Jowell Health Centre in East Dulwich.

This month Dulwich Picture Gallery welcomes a work by Rob and Nick Carter. The husband-and-wife artistic duo have been collaborating for over twenty years and their work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Frick collection in New York.

For the first time ever Claude Monet’s 'Water Lilies and Agapanthus' (1914–1917) will travel to the UK for a special display as part of our major new exhibition Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty.

For a long time, the identity of the enigmatic figure standing behind the pendulum of the Dulwich clock has been a mystery. However, recent research has led to an important discovery about who this character could be. The answer may lie in the collection of the Louvre, Paris…

We explore how thinking about light has influenced works in our collection and even the gallery architecture itself.

The first art commission for the Tessa Jowell Health Centre (TJHC) in East Dulwich has been awarded to Bamidele Awoyemi, Farouk Agoro and Livia Wang, a collective of artists from South London.

Rachel Potts speaks to artist Joy Gregory about how working with plants has helped her to deal with the stresses of the pandemic.

We are inviting expressions of interest from ambitious and creative companies who can provide a high-quality food and drink offer that will propel the Gallery Café into being a destination in its own right.

Dulwich Picture Gallery has announced the three shortlisted artists in the running to create a site-specific artwork at the newly opened Tessa Jowell Health Centre in East Dulwich.

Occupying the space between artistic tradition and contemporary realism, photographer Richard Learoyd creates unprecedentedly authentic portraits. We spoke to him about the fascinating process behind the works featured in Unearthed.

Here are the winning entries to our #unearthedathome photography competition, and what our judges had to say about them

The editor of In View, Alex Morrison on how Dulwich Picture Gallery's partnership with the new Tessa Jowell Health Centre is boosting momentum for the arts and wellness movement.

Treat the wonderful mums in your life this Mother’s Day with our selection of unique, inspiring and artful gifts.

Many of us see fashion as a vital part of the way we project our identity. In this article we explore portraits from our collection in which the sitters considered their clothes in the same way.

Who were the first female photographers? Discover the work of early female photographers Sarah Anne Bright, Cecilia Glaisher and Anna Atkins, who all feature in our major exhibition Unearthed: Photography’s Roots.

If you’re missing travel to pastures new at the moment, why not take time to indulge in a virtual journey through some of the captivating landscapes of our collection – as chosen by the Gallery team.

Artists throughout history have turned to still life to find magic in the mundane. We're encouraging you to create your own still life photographs at home, using plants, flowers and objects you have to hand, and a camera - the one on your phone will do!