5  days left to watch this 1 hour documentary on one of the ‘pioneers of modernism in Britain’ on the BBC iPlayer.

On BBC4 tonight at 20:00, the second part of this series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who brought notoriety to British art in the 19th century, bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art.

This second part looks at how they continued by transforming landscape painting with a microscopic examination of the natural world, some ten years before the French Impressionists.

More details here.

An unexpected viral dance craze shot Baauer’s Harlem Shake to the top of the Billboard charts. Almost immediately, legal letters began to arrive. So, can cut-and-paste culture continue to flourish on the internet? Read the article here.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, normally a haven of tranquillity, has been invaded by armed foxes and headless gunmen. Be mesmerised by the hilarious world of Yinka Shonibare. Read the review here.

Decades before Tracey Emin was commemorating her conquests on canvas, American artist Dorothy Iannone was baiting the censors with sexually explicit work celebrating her life and loves. Click here to read more.

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We’re starting a new feature, ‘What do you want to know Wednesday’. Basically we’ll be posting answers to questions we regularly get asked here in the library as an additional way of providing help and support to you all.

The answers will probably include a link to further help on our web pages and/or UniPal.