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Visitor numbers soar at Britain's free museums and galleries | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
Visitor numbers to museums rise again, and comedian Frank Skinner aims to 'persuade people of the benefits of going into a gallery, even for a short time and even if it is just to get out of the rain'
from : samjones
4th December 2006
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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
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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
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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
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Culture Online: Video podcast first for UK museum
The first video podcast by a UK Museum
from : samjones
26th October 2006
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Tate | Young Tate
Download podcasts on works at the Tate ... send links to your own podcasts back.
from : samjones
26th October 2006
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www.steve.museum - Home
A collaborative research project exploring the potential for user-generated descriptions of the subjects of works of art to improve access to museum collections and encourage engagement with cultural content.
from : samjones
26th October 2006
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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
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Arts in the core script - writing ourselves in
The arts need to be recognised both for the inherent personal value they deliver for citizens and for their contribution to other public agendas, such as education, health, home affairs, foreign policy and the economy.
from : mollywebb
13th July 2006
