Curator's Choice
From medieval seals and lawnmowers to Spitfires and space modules, museum and gallery curators reveal - in their own words - the objects they are passionate about from within their collections...
Curator's Choice: Louisa Briggs on Stanley Spencer's The Dustman or The Lovers
The Curator of Visual Art for Museums Sheffield tells us about a 1934 work from The Family in British Art, the current exhibition at the Millennium Gallery.
In her own Words: Lee Karen Stow on '42' Women of Sierra Leone at the Slavery Museum
Photographer Lee Karen Stow tells us the story of Grace Brown, the head of the Sierra Leone Women's Boxing Team who harbours dreams of Olympic gold.
Her Maj: Cartoon Museum heralds Diamond Jubilee with 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits
The curator of the new show at The Cartoon Museum in London, tells us about some star portraits from the minds of Ralph Steadman, Martin Rowson and their contemporaries, taken from the likes of Private Eye and the Guardian.
Curator's Choice: Curator of Art for Sunderland Shauna Gregg chooses The Happy Garden
The Keeper of Art introduces an imaginary scene by Ged Quinn, starring in the new Art for Sunderland show at the city's Museum & Winter Gardens.
In his own Words: John Kirby on The Living and the Dead at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
Religion, sex, gender and the artist's designs on painting the soul all play their part as John Kirby tries to pick a favourite piece from his show at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.
Curator's Choice: Zoë Hendon of MoDA chooses a Silver Studio fabric design
Zoë Hendon of the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) discusses the appeal of a Silver Studio design for a 1930s dress fabric.
Curator's Choice: John Kirby's The Living and the Dead at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
Head of Fine Art Ann Bukantas chooses The Entertainer, a creepy and slightly sinister painting by the artist whose works are the focus for a major new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in......
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: Winston Churchill's War Rooms despatch box
Take a look at the despatch box Winston Churchill carried his papers in and find out why it is adorned with a sticker from Barbados in the second part of Culture24's Parliament Week special from the......
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: Dr Richard Johns chooses a portrait of James, Duke of York
Dr Richard Johns explains the complex story behind a triumphant painting of James, Duke of York inside the Queen's House at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: A porcelain figure of radical MP John Wilkes at the Buckinghamshire Museum
Will Phillips, the Collections Officer of Social History at Buckinghamshire County Museum Resource Centre, introduces a porcelain figure of John Wilkes, a radical 18th century MP who had a colourful......
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: Dr Alan Borthwick chooses the 691-year-old Declaration of Arbroath
Dr Alan Borthwick of the National Records of Scotland talks about the Declaration of Arbroath and why its message still has significance today.
Parliament Week: Dr Hugh Doherty on the Magna Carta at the Bodleian Library
The Medieval manuscripts expert at the University of Oxford tells us about trawling the country in pursuit of Magna Carta, the ruthless exploits of King John and the abiding influence of the famous......
Parliament Week Curator's Choice: The chair scratched by Winston Churchill's fingernails
See the former Prime Minister's scratch marks on the chair he once sat in to chair cabinet committee meetings during World War II, held at the Churchill War Rooms in London.
Curator's Choice: MaryAnn Stevens on Konstantin Melnikov's Rusakov Club
As the Royal Academy explores Soviet art and architecture, the RA's Director of Academic Affairs talks about one of socialist Russia's most innovative and radical constructivist architects.
Curator's Choice: Ann Bukantas on Henri Matisse's rabbits at the Walker Art Gallery
A double spread by Matisse in the major show of his work at Liverpool's Walker, featuring fleurs-de-lys and rabbits – a Medieval symbol of love and fertility.
