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Joint Subject Specialist Network Conference with Understanding British Portraits and European Paintings pre-1900. This two-day joint Subject Specialist Network (SSN) event was co-organised by the three ‘fine art’ SSNs: Tate Britain’s ‘British Art’ SSN, National Gallery ‘European Paintings pre-1900’ SSN and the National Portrait Gallery’s ‘Understanding British Portraits’ SSN. This was the first time the […]
Examine the motivations behind exhibition programming, the practical challenges, and the future of exhibitions
Research and the Museum Ecosystem was originally planned as a live event due to take place at the National Museum Cardiff in March 2020. This would have focused upon arts-based research in the museum, gallery and academic worlds, and was intended to provide a fresh opportunity to investigate how the concept of a museum ecosystem […]
Thursday 1 July 2021, 14:00–16:00 Panel discussion with Shaheen Merali, Rita Keegan and Hassan Aliyu. This panel focussed on the 1980s and early 1990s when a variety of Black and Asian curatorial practices, projects and spaces came to light. How can we account for the emergence of Black curatorial practices? How to name them? And […]
Thursday 8 July 2021, 14:00–16:00 Panel discussion with Gilane Tawadros, Dr Nima Poovaya-Smith and Mark Miller. “When you go through the door (…of ambivalent mainstreaming) it is a dangerous territory; it is an incredibly tricky territory and all sorts of monsters are waiting on the other side to assimilate you up”. Stuart Hall’s 2006 observation […]
Thursday 15 July 2021, 14:00–16:00 Panel discussion with OOMK, Raju Rage and Ajamu. Moving beyond a narrow focus on exhibition making this panel explores recent contexts for understanding Black and Asian curatorial practices in the ‘expanded field’. Curatorial collectives, archival practices, independent publishing and cultural activism are transforming notions of the curatorial and ‘Blackness’, producing […]
A closed session by invitation only. The event will take place on the 28th October 2022, at the Museum of London Docklands Official Poster : feedforward Feedforward is a research and networking platform in which practitioners are invited to present their work, receiving and giving challenging feedback and genuine support one another.
This event is part of the British Art Network's annual conference programme 2012/2022: A Decade of British Art Curating, November 2022 In-person Gallery tour with Jenny Gaschke, Senior Curator, Paintings and Drawings at the V&A, London. The V&A describes itself as the world’s leading museum of art and design. But who thinks of it as […]
This event is part of the British Art Network’s annual conference programme 2012/2022: A Decade of British Art Curating, November 2022 An in person tour in hackney of recently commissioned sculptures by Black Artists. Led by Bak Mortenson, Director of Create London The recent commissions of Black artists to create public artworks which celebrate and […]
The British Art Network Annual Conference 2023 considers the cultural legacies of devolution. As questions about statehood, democracy and (dis)unity rise anew in the year of a Coronation, British Art after […]
