22nd March 2021
As we slowly exit our third lockdown and see the rapid roll-out of vaccinations, we can - whisper it - start thinking about returning to a non-Zoom-oriented reality. The Royal Academy and Tate Britain are feeling that optimism with both
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27th April 2020
John Wyver writes: Frustrating as being isolated at home is in many ways, it is also fascinating for the opportunity to observe how cultural organisations are conjuring up all sorts of smart, innovative ways to respond to the crisis. As
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19th March 2020
John Wyver writes: having looked at two early films from New York's Metropolitan Museum, here and here, and before I return to the topic of museums and media in the United States, I thought I would explore
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6th March 2014
Remarkably, astonishingly, the image agency Getty Images has announced a new initiative to allow the embedding of many of its photographs for non-commercial use in blogs (like this one) and social media channels. A simple new embed tool
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12th April 2013
To Clapham Picturehouse for Manet: Portraying Life, the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition (until 14 April) 'captured for cinema screens worldwide'. That's the claim of Exhibition: Great Art on Screen, a new initiative from
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16th January 2012
Although I have no easy way of checking, there must be hundreds of films - and quite likely thousands - that feature David Hockney. By the end of the week, with the opening of David Hockney RA: A
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