Catherine McDermott, ICOM UK Committee Member, interviewed Candice Allison, Director of Bag Factory Artists’ Studios on a recent visit to Johannesburg, South Africa. How are South African museums engaging with social justice and youth empowerment? Museums in South Africa are working hard with diminishing year on year resources to offer affordable or free entry and […]
Catherine McDermott talked to Ning Li, Deputy Director of the Collection Department, the China Art Museum, Shanghai (CAM) about future plans for the museum. Would you tell ICOM UK members about CAM? CAM is the huge red pavilion building that has become a landmark in Shanghai and the city’s largest art space. CAM focuses […]
Catherine McDermott talked to Raphael Chikukwa, Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) Harare about future plans for the museum. Would you tell ICOM UK members about NGZ? In 2017 The National Gallery of Zimbabwe celebrated 60 years, a period which has seen the shift from colonialism to independence and now the […]
Eliza Gluckman, Curator, New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge travelled to Hong Kong this month on an ICOM UK – British Council Global Travel Grant. This is Eliza’s blog from her visit. It has been an intense and busy period working towards the launch of our research on women artists in […]
To celebrate the Chinese New Year of The Dog, Catherine McDermott (ICOM UK Secretary) talks to Chinese curator Feng Sun, the project director of a new exhibition in London. Initiation is showing at the Bloomsbury Gallery until 1st March, focusing on emerging Chinese artists and designers chosen from China’s leading art schools. The show is […]
In the first of a new series of reports from international ICOM members Natalia Keller talked to Catherine McDermott in Lastarria, the capital’s cultural district about her museum and the museum sector in Chile. Natalia Keller is a researcher in the Collections Department at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) the National Museum of […]
