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Art of History
The history of my project of making installation art that interacts with museum artefacts.
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Fox on Stilts
I have just come across the most fascinating animal; the Maned Wolf which is neither a fox or wolf despite appearance or name but a distinct species. It is so thin, you could be forgiven for missing it , if […]
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Marbles
I am ridiculously happy about the fact I made my first glass marble! I have been going to the Ruskin Glass Centre in Stourbridge to grasp the basics of flame working sometimes called Lampworking. Rich Evans has been guiding me […]
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Museum of the Year 2019: St Fagans National Museum of History in Wales wins Art Fund prize
The museum near Cardiff was hailed as “one of the most welcoming and engaging museums anywhere in the UK” by Art Fund director and chair of judges Stephen Deuchar.
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Conference
SYMPOSIUM: Museum Engagement as Speculative Design
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Camberwell College of Arts -
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March 15, 2019 at 10:00 AM -
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London
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Museum of the City of New York & more..
I have been looking at items from the Museum of the City of New York on their amazingly thorough archive online for the past few months. I have been looking at photographs of different architecture that I have viewed on […]
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Write on Art prize returns for second edition with aim of encouraging an interest in art among young people
Other News In Brief: Japanese artists Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami consider legal action after Chinese company stages exhibitions featuring fake versions of their work; Brazil’s new president may thwart efforts to rebuild Rio museum destroyed in fire; digital lab shows you how to make your own Banksy-style shredder.
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London mayor Sadiq Khan approves ‘Trump baby’ flight request; New York gallery MoMA PS1 sued by curator
In Brief: News briefing featuring national and international stories including: £4.5m lottery award for Thomas Gainsborough museum; California’s artist resale rights law becomes virtually ineffective following court ruling; artist’s sketches of RAF’s last surviving second world war airmen to be auctioned to raise funds for air cadets.
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New Collecting Awards 2018: six winning proposals share £300,000 of funding
The fourth round of the Art Fund’s New Collecting Award sees £300,000 distributed in order to enable each selected curator to develop a new collection for a museum.
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In Brief: Anti-Trump mural sparks public art dispute in New Orleans; is the museum boom over for UK?
News briefing with national and international stories, including: archive of Black Panther Party photographer Stephen Shames enters Briscoe Center Collection; artists take legal action against Artist Pension Trust; Edinburgh Art Festival announces partner programme; Arts Council of Wales to deepen links between NHS and arts.
Research
Cultural value
Museums Taskforce report and recommendations
Museums Association report focusing on funding, collections and the future relevance of the sector.
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Cultural policy
Why Collect? A report on museum collecting today
Explores the historical context of public collecting and the dilemmas and challenges of developing museum collections within shrinking budgets and rising international art prices.
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Cultural policy
Strategic review of DCMS-sponsored museums
DCMS directly funds 15 museums and the British Library. This review looks at the “functions, forms, effectiveness, efficiency and accountability” within these institutions.
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Cultural policy
The Mendoza review: an independent review of museums in England
Review in response to the Government’s Culture White Paper in 2016. Visual arts museums are represented, along with sculpture parks.
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New scheme to fund sharing of major works across UK museums and galleries
The new £750,000 funding and training programme from the Garfield Weston Foundation and Art Fund will help regional and smaller local authority museums to exhibit works from the UK’s national museums and galleries.
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Art, Museums and everything in between
I like the way artist use Museums to produce art and the way museums can inspire art. The way i paint has been called naive, so ive been looking into naive art and artists as well
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Visits and reviews
An occasional series of informal, casual reports of my visits to exhibitions and other art events. I am not aiming to provide a review, only to log my thoughts as honestly as I can.
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In Brief: other news this week
A weekly briefing featuring national and international art news, including: MoMA creates digital image archive of all its exhibitions, odds on next Tate director, and new UK arts minister’s first speech.
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Week 120: 29th Dec – 4th Jan 2015
Considering the relationship between art and anthropology has led me to consider my own interest in museums and the ways in which curating has become part of my practice. There are a variety of examples of artists working as […]
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V&A wins Museum of the Year prize
This year’s £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Crowdfunding platform raises almost 300K for UK museums
Art Fund’s crowdfunding platform Art Happens, the first of its kind dedicated to raising money for museums, has clocked up almost £300,000 for 16 projects.
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Picture the Poet Conference
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National Portrait Gallery -
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April 25, 2016 -
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April 24, 2016 -
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London
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Participation
No longer Us and Them: How to change into a participatory museum and gallery
Learning from the Paul Hamlyn funded ‘Our Museum’ programme.
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Talk
Museums and Artists Working Together
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No. 34 -
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January 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM -
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South East England
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Museums Association survey: danger that services “will be wiped out” by cuts
The Museums Association Cuts Survey 2015 suggests that funding cuts are putting museums under increased pressure, with more pain to come as local authorities attempt to balance their decreasing budgets.