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‘DISRUPTING THE ART MUSEUM NOW!’: RESPONDING TO THE NFT SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

The last few days has seen a Twitter debate on the use of museum-based public domain digital images by a company called ‘Global Art Museum’

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AMID A PANDEMIC: MENTAL HEALTH AND MUSEUM CIVICS

Mental health is suffering due to the social and economic impact of covid-19. This insight charts how data driven public engagement can help

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#CLOSEDBUTACTIVE? AN EXHIBITION TRYING TO FIND ITS VOICE DURING LOCKDOWN

This Insight looks at the temporary exhibition “We Capitalists. From Zero to Turbo” at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany, which was open

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WHAT COLLECTING SPONTANEOUS MEMORIALS CAN TELL US ABOUT COLLECTING COVID-19 – PART II

In this 2-part article, Kostas Arvanitis reflects on what collecting spontaneous memorials after traumatic events, such as terrorist attacks

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WHO WILL DEAL WITH THE UNDERLYING ISSUES ONCE THE STATUES ARE OUT OF SIGHT?

Over the last weeks, activists in Europe and the US attacked statues of figures perceived to be representations of colonialism, imperialism,

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DIGITAL RESPONSES FROM LOCKED-DOWN MUSEUMS

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, museums increased their digital activities. This Insight summarises trajectories of this sudden digital trans

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RETHINKING THE ROLE OF MUSEUMS IN A TIME OF CRISIS

As museums around the world have increasingly committed to making themselves digitally accessible to the public during lockdown, we have bee

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ICONOCLASM, RE-INTERPRETATION, COUNTER-MEMORIAL, OR WHAT?

In the era of Black Lives Matter, what options are available for dealing with monuments, memorials and statuary with colonialist links?

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AT HOME: THE INTIMACY OF THINGS AND SPACES IN CONFINEMENT

Symbol, site and structure: the house is not one, but all three of these components’. (Ashton 2015: 290)

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MUSEUMS & MEMES – 2

Museums & Memes is brought to you by Catalina Delgado and Maria Paula Arias, PhD students at the Institute for Cultural Practices. They shar

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EXHIBITIONS, EMOTIONS, AND THE BOOKS OF THE PANDEMIC

The last decade has seen a growing interest amongst museum professionals in developing a curatorial practice grounded in affect. In this Ins

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CURATING THE S(H)ELF: COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING OBJECTS IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY

Marion Endt-Jones reflects on collections created by artists in times of personal uncertainty and crisis, as reconstitutions of self and ide