BBC forges closer art links

The BBC is making a long-term commitment to highlighting the outreach work of publicly funded and not-for-profit organisations by allowing cultural institutions across the UK to share their public-facing learning activities through the BBC Knowledge and Learning ‘Things To Do’ website, thanks to a data-sharing partnership with Culture24, the online aggregator for the cultural sector. This new initiative builds on recent BBC partnerships with the arts sector that go beyond broadcast, and this year the BBC will launch Your Paintings, a nationwide partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation to put the UK’s oil painting collection online, and celebrate the bi-centenary of Dickens’s birth with the BBC Dickens Season working together with the Dickens 2012 campaign.