TAITMAIL Drawing out the real we
At this existential moment for us as a nation, there’s an interesting exhibition opening in Hull soon that tries to pin down who we are.
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Edith Piaf in White Dress, Paris, 1950, by Marilyn Stafford
TAITMAIL Abbey blues
In Ireland, the Abbey is almost synonymous with theatre. The Dublin playhouse has been woven into the history of the nation, not just the dramatic arts.
GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE The new museums challenge
Last week’s TaitMail, prompted by the appointment of a shipping executive as director of the Royal Museums Greenwich, brings a response from Roy Clare CBE, former director of the National Maritime Museum and later CEO of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and then director of Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand
TAITMAIL Garrick, and how not to commemorate
I’m glad Nigel Hinds got an OBE in the Birthday Honours for being executive producer of 14-18 NOW - his boss, Jenny Waldman, got her CBE 18 months ago – underlining the triumph of the marathon commemoration. We haven’t always been so good at it.
THE WORD Could we make arts boards better?
No-one has better insight into the work of the arts boards than Prue Skene CBE, who as well as serving on and chairing many boards is governance associate of the Clore Leadership Programme. Last November we reported on the launch the CLP of the Cultural Governance Alliance, but she believes arts boards need a fundamental rethink, and here suggests how they could change for the better
THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month
Splashdown, 4thTest v Australia, 27thAugust 2005, by David Ashdown for The Independent
Forest stories
Artist film maker Amanda Loomes is finishing a work that will uncover secrets of our forest industries
London’s other rivers
The capital has been shaped by its natural waterways, as a new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands reveals
Into the woods for Grange Park Opera
There are two Grange opera festivals this summer, based at two different country houses in Hampshire and Surrey, both created by the conductor Wasfi Kani. Simon Tait visited the newest
MY STORY Helping artists to value themselves
Jerwood Arts’ new director, Lilli Geissendorfer, has introduced three new funds to the charity’s operations, and for one is announcing bursary beneficiaries whose careers could be shaped by them.
Hogarth, the noisy painter
A new exhibition at the Foundling Museum takes a single painting of 18th century life as its subject
