‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries
by Mark Brown from World news | The Guardian on (#73RRZ)
New Art UK chair Ben Terrett appointed as charity marks 10 years of building online database
From a bronze Rodin sculpture of the naked Eve outside a Nando's in Harlow to more than 6,000 artworks by JMW Turner, to a crumpled-up piece of A4 paper owned by Manchester Art Gallery, the UK's public art collection is a wonderful and varied thing.
It is huge, as demonstrated by the charity Art UK, which has announced it has reached a million artworks on its database and appointed a new chair who said: We've only scratched the surface."
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