Shows
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumThe Museum of Other People - an interview with anthropologist Adam KuperTiffany Jenkins interviews the anthropologist Adam Kuper about his new book, The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Exhibitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions. Adam talks about the history of anthropology museums and the crisis in which they find themselves today. They discuss the collections of human remains, and objects that were taken in imperial wars. They talk about the Benin Bronzes and the problems with the drive to return them in the present moment. Adam Kuper was most recently Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and a visiting professor at Boston University. A...2023-02-2034 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumA Conversation with Sir Peter BazalgetteSir Peter Bazalgette has had a long and productive career in the arts. He is currently non-executive chairman of ITV, where we meet for a wide-ranging conversation. He has been Chairman of English National Opera and Chair of Arts Council England (2012 until 2016). He is Chair of the the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and author of The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society (2017).
We talk about the future of the BBC (he is one of the most influential men in broadcasting), arts funding and sponsorship in an age of moral purity, making a case for...2020-02-2600 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumCancelled! Censorship and self-censorship in the arts
Censorship of the arts is on the increase: both that imposed from above, by the state, but also from below, with artists calling for works to be taken down from display. This episode of Behind the Scenes of the Museum brings together three experts – Julia Farrington, Associate Arts Producer at Index on Censorship, artists mentor Manick Govinda, and the art critic JJ Charlesworth – to discuss the significant cases, and analyse what is going on: what is new (as compared to the old style Mary Whitehouse kind of censorship); why do institutions capitulate so easily to complaints; and what is...2020-01-2300 min
Behind the Scenes at the Museum"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." New York's Tenement Museum
Tiffany visits the Tenement Museum in New York with its President, Kevin Jennings. Located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the museum is formed from two historical tenement buildings, which were home to an estimated 15,000 immigrants from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 2011.
Starting in 97 Orchard street, they discuss the aims of the Tenement Museum: is it political?; does and should the museum take sides?; the history of immigration policy; the difficulties in talking about immigration today — when society is so divided and issue so emotional — and the importance of doing so.
K...2019-11-2700 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumHow to solve a problem like Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia: rehanging paintings in the age of #MeToo
Tiffany Jenkins goes to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to talk to its director Luke Syson, art historian Jill Burke and Michael Savage (aka Grumpy Art Historian) about Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia, and rehanging paintings in the age of #MeToo.
► ART WORK DISCUSSED
John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs
Raphael’s Lucretia
Sandro Botticelli's The Story of Lucretia
Titian’s Tarquin and Lucretia
Titian's Rape of Europa
Nicholas Poussin
I Modi - The Sixteen Pleasures
► PARTICIPANTS
Luke Syson Instag...2019-11-0600 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumVera Worth's Schiaparelli
Vera Worth was a good looking shop girl from Bristol, who followed fashion with a passion. In the 1930s, after marrying John, she scrimped and saved to buy a glamorous gown fit for a film star, and wore it to an important company dinner dance. The knockout dress and its jacket were designed by flamboyant designer to the stars, Elsa Schiaparelli. Photographs of Vera in the dress (available on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @behindthemuseum) show her looking fabulous, beaming; onlookers are smiling with pleasure and in amazement.
After passing her precious garment to her...2019-07-1000 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumThe Last Colonial Museum
The Africa Museum in Brussels reopened at the end of 2018 after a 5 year renovation. Tiffany Jenkins and Fiammetta Rocco, culture correspondent at The Economist, tour the museum with its Director-General, Guido Gryseels, and assess its attempts to come to terms with a horrific past.
The Africa Museum (officially called the Royal Museum for Central Africa) grew out of the Brussels International Exposition of 1897. The Colonial Pavilion, located at King Leopold II of Belgium’s estate, formed the basis of the museum. It was intended to celebrate his achievements in what was then the Congo Free State...2019-06-0700 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumSackler sponsorship: should art be on the side of the angels?
Tiffany is joined by the art critic and TV documentary maker, Waldemar Januszczak, the writer Michael Savage (Grumpy Art Historian), and the ex-museum director, Tom Freudenheim (Old Fart Thoughts On Museums) to discuss whether arts sponsorship should be ethical.
They reflect on the significance of the decision taken in March 2019 by the National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler Trust not to proceeded with a £1m donation, questioning to what extent we are seeing a tipping point in arts funding. They assess to what extent the politicisation of museums is a new phenomena, or if it has...2019-04-2500 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumEverything you didn't know about the Renaissance Nude, with Jill BurkeTiffany Jenkins talks to Jill Burke, a prize-winning researcher in Italian Renaissance art history, senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and associate editor of Renaissance Studies, about the Renaissance Nude.
They discuss the hidden influences and impact of the Renaissance nude upon the social and political reality of Italy – why did representations of the nude proliferate in this period? What kind of society produced them? What did they mean? What was the difference between the male and female nude – and who was doing the looking?
► LINKS AND FURTHER INFORMATION
‘The Italian Renaissance Nude’, by Jill B...2019-04-0900 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumThe Maqdala treasures and the Sarr-Savoy report on repatriation Tiffany Jenkins talks to the director of the V&A in London, Tristram Hunt, about who owns culture, and what to do with looted objects. They take a close look at a stunning gold crown, seized by the British Army during the 1868 Abyssinian Expedition (modern day Ethiopia), and discuss President Macron’s commissioned Sarr-Savoy report on returning African artefacts acquired in the colonial era.
► LINKS:
Find out more about the Maqdala treasures, on the V&A blog:
Find out about AFROMET - The Association for the Return of The Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures.
Read th...2019-03-2200 min
Behind the Scenes at the MuseumIntroducing...Behind the Scenes at the MuseumIntroducing 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum'. A new podcast in which the writer, Tiffany Jenkins, talks to key figures about the big ideas rocking the cultural world, charting the trends and dissecting the controversies.
Hosted by Tiffany Jenkins.
Produced by Jac Phillimore.
Twitter: @behindthemuseum
Instagram: @behindthemuseum
Website: https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com
Signature tune:
Nick Vander
Black Kopal - Galaxy I
https://nickvander.bandcamp.com/
► Additional music by: Ross Bugden • Follow Ross Bugden on SoundCloud HERE - https://soundcloud.com/rossbugden • SUBSCRIBE to the Ross Bugden YouTube channel HER...2019-03-1600 min