MA London Trip

This is just a quick post, on behalf of everyone who came, to say thank you to Mark, Abigail and Helen for all the museums you took us to, the fascinating talks you gave/arranged for us and the conversations they inspired. We've had a great time (despite the sore feet!) We'll be blogging more about our thoughts on the trip soon.

MA Museum Studies Graduation

CONGRATULATIONS to all our MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies students....the 2011-2012 cohort had their official conferment of degrees ceremony last Monday, in the Great Hall at the University.  Well done all!....The 2011-12 cohort are moving on to great things...including jobs at Beamish Open Air Museum, and further Doctoral research at University of Lucca!...well done all!...richly deserved.... It's now up to the latest cohort to do even better! Mark

Reading Armley- The Industrial Museum.

The Level 2 HAMS group visited the Industrial Museum at Armley on Wednesday. Nick Cass set us three themes to consider; encouraging visitor interest, 'good' historical interpretation, and work processes, worker's lives and the social structure of the workplace; all this leading to a future discussion.

Preparing for London trip!

Twin Peaks

20th Anniversary

Tuesday 30 October - Saturday 3 November

Lower Gallery

This exhibition is a homage to David Lynch and Twin Peaks (1990-1991). Twin Peaks remains one of the most important television series ever made.  Its distinctive combination of humour, sadness and tension still reverberates throughout our culture, influencing fashion, music and photography, as well as film and television.  Europe's first ever official art exhibition inspired by Twin Peaks; thirteen artists from nine countries; new works.

Also available, commemorative official limited edition Twin Peaks merchandise, all approved by David Lynch.

Friday Lates until 8pm

suetminglau@yahoo.co.uk

Exhibitions

http://www.meniergallery.co.uk/Menier_Gallery/Exhibitions.html

here is a link from the Guardian 

The 'double jobbers' making a living while working in the arts | Culture | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jul/29/living-working-in-the-arts?intcmp=239

We will have an exiting trip in London for the British Museum ,V&A,National Gallery and so on, I do believe it wil be an amazing art trip!

 All results in London - Art Fund

http://www.artfund.org/search//in/13

National Art Pass - Art Fund

http://www.artfund.org/buynationalartpass/ 

I have used the National Art Pass  to many museums,I think 18.75 pounds  for 12 months is fine.

 2nd Nov is Friday,there are also a lot of museums open until 9.00 even 9.30 as the British Museum.

Courtauld Gallery - 

http://www.artfund.org/what-to-see/museums-and-galleries/courtauld-gallery 

OPENING HOURS
Daily 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.30pm)

Late Night Openings

Thursdays: 25 October and 29 November 2012, until 9pm

Adults	£6
Concessions (over 60s, part-time and international students)	£4.50
Children under 18, full-time UK students, Friends of The Courtauld, registered unwaged	FREE
Visitors with disabilities can bring an escort free of charge

Free Mondays until 2pm

Admission is free on Mondays from 10am until 2pm  

 London is full of art and exhibitions,here is another link for Art tours in South London.

South London Art Map
http://www.southlondonartmap.com/

A Walking Art Gallery... 'What the Flock?!'

This is a follow up on my last blog. What seemed to be a static, one off happening has turned into one that is moving through time and space. Over the last week I have watched the spray painted stencils, which existed on the main route from Hyde Park to the University, become faded under the foot of many a student on the way to lectures. I thought these were the only remains. However, this morning I witnessed the return of the flock, or more precisely of 'what the flock?!' Cardboard cut outs of black sheep on sticks were yet again stuck in the marshy grass of Hyde Park. This time with the date 10/10/10 printed on them. What did the date mean? Perhaps it was informing us of the beginning of the exhibition, proper, or even more interestingly the end-date. This got me thinking about the life-span of exhibitions. Conventional exhibitions usually advertise when, where and how long the exhibit is going to be. We are too often used to planning to go to an exhibition at a certain time and place. However it is becoming an increasingly common occurrence to stumble across artworks in public domains, which, repeating what i said in my last blog, gives us an entirely different experience. It is a much more confrontational kind of experience, we see it and experience it whether we like it not. For example, like in the case of the Mysterious Banksy, who has given rise to graffiti art.

I thought my questions would be answered when I caught a glimpse of a black sheep out of the corner of my eyes whilst sat on the Parkinson steps. I looked up to see a parade of people dressed as sheep with the trade-mark black-sheep-on-stick in hand. They were anouncing the date through a megaphone. I ran over to see if they would shed any light on what the flock was going on, but apparnetly they had no idea either. I was simply instructed to go to http://www.whattheflock.org.uk/ at 10pm on the 10/10/10. The 'exhibition' was now moving to cyber space. This is interesting as the internet is increasingly becoming a platform for new-media art and an art space in its own right. This is reminisent of the previously blogged Art experiment 'Second Life' by Hayley Goodsell. Creating virtual environments in which art can exist, or virtual environments and web pages that are actually art, again bring to mind the question of the art gallery. What constitutes an art Gallery? As you have suggested Mark work by the likes of Christo, who makes huge landmarks such as the Reichstag, Berlin (1971-95) into art objects by wrapping them up, thus making the environmental space surrounding it the viewing gallery. Therefore if the art object exists on your computer screen your bedroom becomes the gallery. It won't be long until an 'art gallery' app will be come available, if it hasn't already, making anywhere you are an art gallery.

After checking out the web page, which is linked to LUU, I began to wonder whether it was an art project at all. It could be anything to do with LUU from elections to the promotion of yet another weird and wonderful society or even a marketing tool for a new product. In any case I think it is an intriguing 'project' that raises issues surrounding what constitutes an art gallery. I can't wait to see what is to be revealed on Sunday.

http://www.whattheflock.org.uk/ ... watch this space!

Alex

Exhibitions by Our MA Students

Hello All,

The Museum & Gallery studies Theory-Practice divide was collapsed last week, with the final installation of the student's exhibitions at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at Leeds University. Divided into two groups, the students divised two fantastic exhibitions......

A Sculpture Trail and A Ceramics Display....
...both exhibitions are now part of the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery displays. You can view them until early December...do go along and let us know what you think and post a note on here!

Here's the SCULPTURE GROUP, next to part ONE of their finished Sculpture Trail.....which explores the complex relationships between sculpural practices, materials and theories....you can even get invloved yourself and make a masterpiece!................The students got really involved in the processes of making the exhibition itself...as you can see...........................Looks like the Blue Peter Studio!............there's more to come (when I get the pics) on the CERAMICS GROUP Exhibition project....
Mark