The Brit-ish Museums
February 20, 2021
From Britney Spears to the Benin Bronzes, how do we manage not to see the problems under our noses
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The Culture Secretary has spoken: Statues good, TV bad.
November 29, 2020
If the Culture Secretary wants to put a content warning on the The Crown, go for it, but put one on the door of every…
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March 10, 2018
Last weekend I spent several hours hibernating, knitting and watching all 13 episodes of Kenneth Clark’s original Civilisation series. (I have so far only watched…
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August 6, 2015
On a recent trip to Bath I was interested to see a small exhibit in the ceramics display in the Victoria Art Gallery: a case…
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July 28, 2015
When considering the impact of museum funding cuts, I thought I knew what the threats might be: closures, or part-closures, shorter opening hours, staff redundancies,…
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