Samuel Jones
Researcher
Samuel Jones is a researcher at Demos. His research interests include culture and the arts, museums and galleries, creativity and the communication of ideas and knowledge through the cultural sector. In particular, he is interested in cross-cultural communications and the role of culture in international relations. In other work, he has focused on Global English and conversations. Recently, he has undertaken research in both the US and China.
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- Positioning the Arts at the Heart of Society Following on from Charlie's comment below, I think that connects pretty strongly with a more general awareness amongst public, politicianas and companies that the arts and culture are more than just add ons and things that make life generally pretty. from : samjones 27th September 2006
- MoMA and Tate Modern One of the most commonly heard criticisms of Tate Modern is the paucity of its collection in comparison with other major museums. This article in the New York Times makes for interesting reading, arguing that the collection has encouraged more creative curation down at Bankside. There are also some interesting comments about the participatory nature of the Unilever commissions. One of the big points to be made about, say, Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project, or Rachel... from : samjones 2nd November 2006
- Cultural Revolution in the 1990s ‘By the mid-nineties museum directors had figured out along with the rest of us that the worldwide system of production had radically changed with the advent of the PC, then the Internet' from : samjones 7th November 2006
- Louder than Words I've been meaning to blog this for a little while. A couple of weekends ago, I went to a see an exhibition by the Birmingham artist, Barbara Walker. It's currently on show at the Unit 2 Gallery at London Metropolitan University. There are two reasons to go and see this show. First, the close draughtsmanship of the works reveals close observation and familiar care. As a result, they are deeply engaging and clearly very personal images. Scenes on the walk home,... from : samjones 1st December 2006
- We're all diplomats now... Today, we launched Cultural Diplomacy at the V&A in South Kensington. It argues for the importance of culture in the way that we relate to each other in the world today. As well as providing a medium through which we can relate to one another, culture is emerging a space in which those relations can be conducted. from : samjones 28th February 2007
- Whipping up a perfect storm... Last year’s Demos report A Perfect Storm? predicted that there would be widespread cases of local authorities cutting back their cultural provision. Since then, Wandsworth has threatened to close Battersea Arts Centre and Walthamstow Museum, the William Morris Museum in Waltham Forest is under threat, Bolton is selling assets, and Southampton is discussing closing part of its museum service. from : samjones 6th March 2007
- Culture Flows Through English Channels, but Not for Long - An article from Wired suggesting that one of the challenges to cultural diversity lies in the media dominance of the English language. from : samjones 13th April 2007
- Cultural Literacy We’re currently developing some work around the idea of cultural literacy. Both Cultural Diplomacy and As You Like It raised the need to focus on a new skill. Mass communication enables us to express and focus on individual interests to a greater degree than ever before and culture has come to the fore as a means by which, and space in which, we relate to each other. But do we have the skills with which we can make the most of this? Historians offer an insight onto what these skills might be. from : samjones 17th April 2007
- John Tusa on Arts Funding Sir John Tusa, Director of the Barbican Centre has written a piece in today's Times that strikes out at some of the mentalities that can dog debates around cultural funding. from : samjones 17th April 2007
- The Mad-for-it Hatter's Tea Party What did that handshake with Noel Gallagher really mean? from : samjones 16th May 2007
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