For over 100 years, the UK Government Art Collection has collected works of art to promote British art and artists

Works from the Collection are placed in British Government buildings in the UK and in nearly every capital city around the world, and are seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors each year

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Features

Art, Power, Diplomacy

A new book tells the untold story of the Government Art Collection

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A Welsh landscape

Lucian Freud (1922-2011) revisits his own painting after a gap of some 60 years

Lucien Freud

Gillian Wearing

An exhibition of work by photographer and film-maker Gillian Wearing is now open at the Whitechapel

Gillian Wearing

The Story of the Government Art Collection

An exhibition of material drawn from the archives of the Government Art Collection

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May

May's Featured Work is 'For the Unknown Runner' by Chris Ofili

For the Unknown Runner by Chris Ofili