MGHG Annual Conference

Hello,
here is the programme for the annual Museums and Galleries History Group conference. Hope to see you in Leeds...you can book at
mghg.org

Mark


Conference Programme

Friday 10th September 2010

9.15 - Conference Registration
10.00 - Welcome
10.10 - Welcome to Leeds: John Roles, Director, Leeds City Museums
10.30 - Conference Keynote: Dr Helen Rees Leahy, Director of the Centre for
Museology, University of Manchester

11.10 – Coffee

11.40 – Conference Session 1: Commerce & Consumption
Steven Miles (University of Brighton) Contrived Communality: the gallery and museum as a themed space for post-industrial consumption
Christine Guth (Royal College of Art) Blockbusters and Museum Merchandise: Marketing Hokusai’s “Great Wave”
Gareth Williams (Royal College of Art) On Design Art

13.00 – Lunch Break

14.00 – Conference Session 2: The Formation of Taste
Julia Courtney (The Open University) ‘The stuffed animals will have to go’: Alderman Jacob, William Chalkley and Dr Cottrill
Stephanie Schumann (The Drawing Centre, New York) (title tbc)
Louise Tythacott (University of Manchester) The Power of Taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum (1921-1960)

15.20 – Coffee

15.50 – Conference Keynote: Professor Jos Hackforth-Jones, Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London

16.30 – Optional Guided Tour of the Leeds Discovery Centre

Saturday 11th September 2010

9.30 – Parallel Conference Sessions 3 & 4

Conference Session 3: Philanthropy
Andrea Meyer (Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik, Berlin) Museum directors as money makers: a reinvestigation of the history of the National Gallery in Berlin
Jozef Glassée (The Catholic University of Leuven) Buying Art for Ghent: The Ghent Museum Friends and the European Art Market (1897-c.1930)
Martin Weiss (University of Leiden) ‘With a Little Tacit Encouragement’: Teylers Museum’s Paleontological Collection

Conference Session 4: Circulating Commodities
Savithri Preetha Nair (Independent Scholar) The Rise of the Natural History Dealer in Colonial India
Sam Alberti & Christopher Plumb (University of Manchester) The Beastly Marketplace: Animal Commodities in Shops, Museums, and Other Sites of Display
Lina Tahan (Leeds Metropolitan University) The role of the Lebanese agents and dealers in the development of the Louvre Museum near Eastern Collections

10.50 – Coffee

11.20 - Parallel Conference Sessions 5 & 6

Conference Session 5: Regeneration and the Cultural Economy
Susannah Eckersley (University of Newcastle) Regeneration by Museum? Case studies from Germany
Patrick Haughey (Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston) Hamilton’s Classroom: the museum of American Finance and the education of a market citizen
Mariam Al-Mulla (University of Leeds) Heritage in Qatar: an example of culturally-led economic regeneration



Conference Session 6: Museums and Identities
Natasha Degen (University of Cambridge) A National Type of Imagination: Nation branding and the museum
Uta Protz (Kunsthalle, Bremen) Modern French Painting and the Musee du Louvre: the impact of the studio sale of Gustave Courbet 1881
Annalea Tunesi (University of Leeds) An enigmatic façade: Palazzo Mozzi-Bardini in Florence

12.50 – Lunch Break and MGHG Annual General Meeting

14.00 – Conference Session 7: Leeds in Perspective
Mark Steadman (University of Leeds) Mail Order Museums: Recovering the market forces behind Nineteenth-Century Natural History collecting practices
Rebecca Wade (University of Leeds) ‘A Love of Truth even in Trifles’: the exhibition of art and manufactures in mid-nineteenth century Leeds
Geoffrey Forster (The Leeds Library) William Bullock in Leeds

15.20 – Coffee

15.50 – Conference Session 8: Museums and the Art Market

Esmée Quodbach (The Frick Collection, New York) ‘Trying to catch a rising star’: Vermeer on the Art Market 1870-1920
Anne Helmreich (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio) Strategies of Display: the museum and the commercial art gallery in nineteenth-century Britain

16.50 – Closing Remarks: Alan Crookham, Chair, MGHG

Art workshop at Gallery experiments with virtual exhibitions in Second Life

Next Saturday, 10 July, the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery is running an innovative new adult workshop, led by artist Hayley Goodsell. Hayley has been inspired by the Haunch of Venison's much talked about show, 'Shoebox Art,' which invited some of the country's top artists to decorate a room within a shoebox. Hayley is inviting her participants to do the same, creating a bedroom from their past, a dream or one from a photograph. Then, the works will be photographed and re-created in a virtual format online, in Second Life. Thus, anyone in the world will be able to visit the resulting artworks!


Second Life (for those of you as tech-savvy as I was a few weeks ago) is an online 'virtual world' where users - represented by avatar characters - can build their own environments and interact with other avatars. The University has leased some 'virtual land' for researchers to experiment with this phenomenon and many different projects have resulted. The virtual island where the University of Leeds and other sister organisations are based is called 'Education UK'. If you log into the programme online, you'll know you've found the right place if you spot our iconic Parkinson Building in virtual form! You'll also encounter the results of various research projects, including artificially intelligent beasts and a hip disco. (To get a sneak peak at the Education UK island, watch this You Tube video - though this is 3 years old and many new things have been added since!)

The workshop runs from 11-4pm on 10 July (with lunchbreak). Materials fee is £5 or £4 student concessions. To book, please contact Hayley by email: hayley@hayleylouisegoodsell.com

'All Over the Place' opening night

Come one come all to our next exhibition opening! 'All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space' opens tomorrow evening from 6-8pm at SAB Gallery. Among the 17 artists involved, 4 are lecturers in the School of Design. All are inspired by the relationship between space/place and drawing - with varied resulting images.







Hope to see you tomorrow, and if not, the show is on until 23 October 2010.





Image: Iguazu Falls, by Emma Stibbon, 2009, chalk on blackboard, (c) The Artist







Also open in the Education Room this summer (14 June- 27 August) is 'Representing the Romany' - materials from Special Collections Romany Collection. Includes a painting on a butterfly wing, among other treasures.







Have a great summer!

Image: Detail from Die Rotwelsch Grammatic, Augsberg, 1520, Leeds University Library Special Collections

Tate Trumps (the noun, not the verb)

Another interesting app, perhaps more daft than edifying!

Tate Trumps from Hide and Seek on Vimeo.

'Write Me a Picture' creative writing workshops

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery invites you all to attend a series of creative writing/art workshops, 'Write Me a Picture'. Run by local poets Suzannah Evans, David Tait and Rosie Blagg, the 3 workshops (all different) investigate the relationship between visual art and verbal creativity. Participants will draw inspiration from the artworks on display to create prose and poetry responses.

This cross-displinary workshop should be of great interest to those of you who are interested in Gallery education and in creative ways of interpreting art. The first workshop runs this Sat, 5 June, 1.30-4pm, and subsequent sessions are 26 June and 17 July.

The workshops are £5/£4 concession rate. Book your place with Suzannah Evans directly by email: evans.suzie@googlemail.com.

MA Symposium 2010

Some of the MA Museum Studies Postgrads, relaxing in the University
Bar after the three -day Symposium...they bought me a drink
(well Natasha did anyway).....Cheers to you all!

Hello All,

the MA students delivered their dissertation topics at the MA Symposium at the University of Leeds this week. This three-day programme of papers is an annual event in the School and allows the postgraduates from all programmes (Art History, Cultural Studies, Fine Art Practice, and Museum Studies) to share perspectives - the much vaunted 'interdisciplinarity' that Leeds is famous for!
The Museum Studies MAs presented excellent papers (as usual)...and we very much look forward to reading their final dissertations.....here's a flavour of the very varied themes and approaches...WELL DONE ALL OF YOU!

Mark

'Interpreting Heritage' Session Chair, Professor Catherine Karkov
Louise Flower - The History of Theobald's Palace

'Museums and Politics: Global Perspectives Session Chair, Professor Catherine Karkov
Natasha Roberts - Crossing Cultures, Crossing Time
Katherine Ernest - Presenting History in National Military Museums
Sotiria Pizania - Politics and the Museum: the new Acropolis Museum
Rebecca Price - Promoting Culture in Qatar: the political role of the museum
Helen Fairhurst - Preserving National Identity: the Iraq War and the Conservation of Cultural Property

'Considering Curation' Session Chair, Professor Griselda Pollock
Katherine Vaughan - An examination of the documentation of the Curator's work using the Mercer Art Gallery as a case study
Elizabeth Kilburn - The 1938 Loan Exhibition of Pictures and Furniture at Temple Newsam House
Emma Fikkert - Anubis within the Egyptian Galleries at the British Museum
Christine Cant - Curating the Outsider: Surrealist Exhibitionism Then and Now
Hattie Heng Shing Lam - From Democratisation of Culture to Museumification of Objects in the form of Cultural Souvenirs

'Consuming Spaces' Session Chair, Professor Griselda Pollock
Nell Crook - Restaurants in the Contemporary Art Gallery: Spaces of inclusion or elitism?

'Participant Observation' Session Chair, Professor Vanalyne Green
Elizabeth Hardwick - Viewing versus Experience: an exploration of physical and visual art encounters
Ashley Hamilton - Neo-Baroque Aesthetic: Claudio Bravo and the Contemporary Art Market

'Musuems & Politics' Session Chair, Professor David Hill
Jemma Conway - 'Experience Barnsley': reflecting the notion of the community as collector
Elaine Narrie - The Lowry: what role does Culture play in Urban Regeneration?
Melanie Marsh - The National Trust and saving Tyntesfield. Why?

More next year!
mark

Augmented Reality

The Museum of London have recently brought our their own iPhone app called Street Museum that uses geo-tagging and augmented reality to overlay images from their archive in real time and space. Seems like it could have interesting implications for diffusing museum collections and content, and it's free!