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Theme : culture
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Women and culture
New report into women in the workforce in the cultural sector...
from : johnholden
21st April 2008
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Book Review: 'Provoking Democracy: Why we Need the Arts'
I've just written a review of Caroline Levine's book, Provoking Democracy: Why we Need the Arts. Overall, it encourages constructive discussion of the relationship between the arts and democracy that goes beyond territorialism and, even if it does leave questions unanswered, that is part of its value, flagging up areas to which policy-makers and cultural professionals must pay greater attention.
from : samjones
28th March 2008
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Caring for the Material World
Simon Jenkins wrote an article in Good Friday's Guardian in which he made the case that 'the dazzling walls of medieval England deserve a bold restorer'. It's good to see conservation getting coverage. As discussion of identity intensifies, culture and heritage are increasingly being looked to as sources for that identity, and points around which we can commune. However, what is often forgotten in this debate is that much of that culture and heritage exists only because it is cared...
from : samjones
25th March 2008
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Fragile future for textile conservation centre | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
Maev Kennedy's article in The Guardian relating the threat of closure faced by the world-renowned Textile Conservation Centre
from : samjones
14th March 2008
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Strangers
The website for the Stranger Festival - a celebration of videos made by young people across Europe - is now online. It's well worth a look, not least for the videos themselves. The videos are mainly the product of workshops run throughout Europe by artists, co-ordinated by the European Cultural Foundation. We'll be blogging lots next week from Helsinki, where Celia and I will be visiting the workshops and seeing what the ideas and videos look like there.
from : petebradwell
15th February 2008
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Future in the Scales
Conservation tends only to figure in the media, and hence the public imagination, when individual cases throw the spotlight on the restorative skill of conservators. The Qing vases at the Fitzwilliam Museum provide a good example. Today, this example of how to restore a Stradivarius violin after it had been crushed figured on the BBC's homepage, no less.The point about conservation, however, is that much of it focuses on preventive work - 'how do you stop vases getting smashed' etc. -...
from : samjones
14th February 2008
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It's our public institutions that drive Britain's creative surge
An article by Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library quoting recent Demos work proposing that culture might be repositioned as a driver, rather than a passenger, in the creative economy. He added that this relationship is most significant in relation to direct transfers of product, skills and ideas - with culture playing a central role in the networks and resources that underpin the creative economy.
from : samjones
12th February 2008
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We photo
The Library of Congress recently began a fantastic trial with online photo sharing site Flickr. They've put up around 3000 of their photos up on their Flickr site. It's proving to be a really successful experiment - as of January 18th, apparently they had been veiwed over a million times.
from : petebradwell
4th February 2008
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Public called key to arts funding
There is a fundamental disconnect between politics and culture, which sometimes seems like a form of enmity, according to British think-tank guru John Holden, who will give a public lecture this afternoon at the Ontario College of Art & Design.
from : samjones
31st January 2008
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Digi-Tales.org
oh my god - it's nearly exactly the same as stranger and one minutes JR. but stranger probably came first
from : charlietims
23rd January 2008
