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Tiffany Jenkins
A Scottish license to kill culture
Bureaucrats north of the border seem to be on a mission to bleed all the spontaneity out of Scotland's thriving cultural scene.
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| Thursday 17 November 2011 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Close the doors on The Public
A Midlands arts centre offers a cautionary tale of what happens when social policy trumps artistic content.
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| Tuesday 5 July 2011 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Culture: it’s not the economy, stupid!
Plans to get UK cultural institutions to measure the economic value of art are both philistine and futile.
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| Wednesday 22 June 2011 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Turning museums into cultural ghettos
The proposed Latino museum in Washington DC looks set to further partition history along racial lines.
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| Tuesday 28 September 2010 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Are we invading the Pharaohs’ privacy?
The idea that we shouldn’t carry out research on Egyptian mummies because we don’t have their consent is bonkers.
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| Thursday 22 July 2010 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Stop this asset-stripping in the art world
Museums aren’t businesses and they shouldn’t be selling off their treasures to pay the electricity bill or mend the roof.
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| Tuesday 29 June 2010 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Arts funding has never been a pretty picture
Shrill anti-BP campaigners don’t realise that state funding for the arts is more problematic than money from Big Oil.
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| Tuesday 13 April 2010 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Archaeology on the front line
Tiffany Jenkins speaks to heritage professionals in fierce disagreement about their sector’s involvement in wars.
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| Tuesday 14 July 2009 |
Tiffany Jenkins
Museums are not playgrounds
Museums are good for children, but campaigns to make them more ‘family-friendly’ are bad for kids, adults and culture.
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| Tuesday 3 February 2009 |
Tiffany Jenkins
British museums: the Druids are at the gates
The demand that an ancient skeleton should be taken out of Avebury museum and buried shows the dangers of officialdom’s ‘cultural sensitivity’.
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| Monday 4 August 2008 |
John Dennen
Hadrian still speaks to us, but not about Iraq
The British Museum’s new exhibition is fascinating in its own right - so let's stop trying to make it so achingly now.
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| Wednesday 12 December 2007 |
Alan Miller
‘Political art’ that treats the public like mugs
An art installation in New York featuring fake criminal mugshots of Bush and Cheney is meant to be cutting edge. In fact it is cynically conformist.
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| Tuesday 16 October 2007 |
Josie Appleton
Eco-warrior vs Terracotta Warrior
A stunt to put face masks on the unique Chinese figures at the British Museum shows up the childish nature of climate change activism.
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| Friday 12 October 2007 |
Emily Hill
Elephant dung, pickled cows and lightbulbs
A retrospective at Tate Britain shows that, while critics have little time for the Turner Prize, the British public love it.
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| Thursday 26 July 2007 |
Austin Williams
Reducing cities to a statistical sprawl
The Global Cities exhibition at Tate Modern – all warnings about overpopulation and eco-doom – shows architects have lost their ‘utopian drive’.
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| Tuesday 22 May 2007 |
Nathalie Rothschild
'Can’t non-white people ever just make art?'
Sonya Dyer, author of a provocative new essay, talks to spiked about how diversity policies in the arts ghettoise black and Asian artists.
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| Tuesday 22 May 2007 |
Yascha Mounk
For the love of the Louvre
French traditionalists, outraged by plans to introduce private investment into the country's museums, should be wary of state influence, too.
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| Wednesday 11 April 2007 |
Bill Durodié
A cultural revolution at Tate Liverpool
Free of Western pessimism, the young Chinese artists on exhibition in Britain are witty and experimental.
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| Wednesday 28 March 2007 |
Maria Grasso
A shrunken view of Truth and Knowledge
What's behind the latest bout of handwringing over the display of shrunken human heads in a museum in Oxford?
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| Thursday 8 March 2007 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Slave Britain: chained to an outdated label
Describing trafficking as the 'new slavery' might flatter the egos of those who campaign against it, but it does little to challenge today's injustices.
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