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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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| Wednesday 13 December 2006 |
Nathalie Rothschild
A slap In the Face of History
The inspiring content of an exhibition of twentieth-century photography is undermined by the curators' emphasis on the particular and the subjective.
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| Wednesday 29 November 2006 |
Nancy McDermott
A photographer’s life
From the formal portrait to the casual family snapshot, Annie Leibovitz always manages to reveal her subject’s humanity.
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| Wednesday 7 June 2006 |
Tiffany Jenkins
‘Reparations are a substitute for progressive politics’
The author of a new book on the reparations industry, John Torpey, explains why payouts for past suffering are not the way forward.
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| Wednesday 31 May 2006 |
Josie Appleton
The tide turns against culture
Why are museums and heritage groups rebranding themselves as apparently brave warriors against the gods of Global Warming?
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| Tuesday 16 May 2006 |
Anna Travis
Dead dreams of utopia
Why has a London museum exhibition on Modernism caused so much disquiet?
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