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UK Debates on the Future of Art Education
posted by Christopher Howard — September 03, 2008
This year, the British contemporary-art magazine Art Monthly has been addressing issues in art education in the United Kingdom. Articles and editorials appearing in their pages have taken on the corporatization of the art school, the rise of the creative industries, educational Taylorism, levels of satisfaction in and radical improvements for UK educational institutions, and more.
In advance of two panel debates taking place September 27 at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London and October 6 at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, Art Monthly has made their essays and letters on art education available online. Please visit the magazine’s website for more information about the debates, to read the articles, and to join the debate.
Ann Temkin Named Chief Curator at MoMA
posted by Christopher Howard — September 03, 2008
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has announced that Ann Temkin will succeed John Elderfield as chief curator of painting and sculpture. Temkin, who served for thirteen years at the Philadephia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, has been a curator at MoMA for five years. Among her exhibitions there are Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today (2008) and Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection (2006).
The New York Times has the story. Photograph by Robin Holland and provided by the Museum of Modern Art.