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Mon 5 Jun, 2017 Facing the Future
Facing the Future: Tim Knox
‘That Noble Repository’: the Fitzwilliam Museum in its Third Century In this illustrated lecture, Tim Knox will talk about the past, present and future of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Tim Knox is the Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Brought up in Nigeria and Fiji, he studied History of Art…
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Wed 17 May, 2017 Facing the Future
Facing the Future: Gabriele Finaldi
The National Gallery: Looking forward as well as back Gabriele Finaldi, formerly Deputy Director of the Prado, became Director of the National Gallery in 2015. In his talk he will consider how the Gallery’s past influences its future and what are the challenges that lie ahead. The Gallery houses one…
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Mon 6 Mar, 2017 Facing the Future
Facing the Future: Maria Balshaw
Museums for a shared future? Museums of the future should be places where people feel at ease – to encounter things that they may not know as well as things that they do, where they can explore things in the company of strangers. People should find the past, and its…
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Mon 6 Feb, 2017 Facing the Future
Facing the Future: Gabriele Finaldi (CANCELLED)
The National Gallery: Looking forward as well as back Gabriele Finaldi, formerly Deputy Director of the Prado, became Director of the National Gallery in 2015. In his talk he will consider how the Gallery’s past influences its future and what are the challenges that lie ahead. The Gallery houses one…
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Mon 30 Jan, 2017 Facing the Future
Facing the Future: Taco Dibbits
Over the past decade the Rijksmuseum has undergone a complete renovation. This provided a rare opportunity to completely rethink a national institution. Not only the building and the display but also the role and position it aims to have in our society and in people’s lives. The lecture will give…
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Mon 5 Dec, 2016 Facing the Future
Facing the Future: Nicholas Cullinan
In conversation with Martin Caiger-Smith. How does a Gallery founded in a Victorian Age of Empire, to celebrate the achievements of the great and good of the nation, move forward with the times? How does it maintain a balance between history and art, past and future, a national remit and…
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Wed 9 Nov, 2016 Facing the Future
Expanding Horizons: Rethinking the past through the lens ...
What does it mean to be a museum of modern and contemporary art in the twenty-first century? Is it still possible to claim to have a ‘world view’? Frances Morris sets out her vision of how Tate Modern can respond to the new demands and challenges that face it, how…
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