Theme : art
- Cultural Diplomacy and the Venice Biennale An article on Newsnight the other day discussed the role of art as providing a space for conversation between cultures. You can see it here.Specifically, it talks about the Venice Biennale. This year, the director, Robert Storr has set out both to include countries who have never exhibited before and to provide a showcase for Islamic art. from : samjones 15th June 2007
- Museums and Cultural Literacy On 26th and 27th June, I'll be at a conference on Museums and International Collaboration. I'll be delivering a paper on museums, and their role in 'Building Cultural Literacy'. You can find out more, and read a synopsis of the paper here. from : samjones 13th June 2007
- Tiger seen on Shaftesbury Avenue The National Gallery's Grand Tour has brought some of its collection to the streets of London. It would be really intersting in the long run to see the images going to other cities and perhaps reflecting their surroundings offering new reflections on both place and painting. from : samjones 13th June 2007
- Good politics and bad art It's becoming commonplace to talk about a revival of political art - just look at all the plays that have recently been written about evil Mr Bush and his lapdog Mr Tony. But is any of it actually any good? I've seen a couple of examples of the genre in the last week or two, and they leave me cold. Has good politics started to equal bad art?What sparked me off today was the picture at the centre of the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. Tony and Cherie are shown being expelled from no.10 while... from : simonparker 4th June 2007
- From Siena to State Britain I spoke at a debate for Resonance Fm at the Pumphouse Gallery last night. Here's a text of what I said. from : samjones 18th May 2007
- New Statesman - Local heroes With new cuts to arts funding, small theatres will be the first to suffer ... but their importance to communities has never been greater. from : samjones 19th April 2007
- newsobserver.com | Students require arts smarts newsobserver.com | Students require arts smarts from : samjones 5th April 2007
- Cultural Diplomacy on the agenda Cultural Diplomacy was debated in the House of Lords yesterday, there's a full transcript of the debate, here. It's great to see the work being dicussed in this context and it follows Tony Blair's comments yesterday that 'culture in a globalised world is an important form of diplomacy'. from : samjones 7th March 2007
- Artist in Residence Like many budding artists, Sophie is at a stage in her career when a studio is too expensive to rent and, while her art work is bought by people as far a way as Dubai, living is still pretty tough. But thanks to a novel agreement with a company based near Oxford Street, Sophie is able to have a room (admittedly stacked to the ceiling with boxes, files, and last year’s headed paper) and paint for free. The only catch from : charlieedwards 25th September 2006
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