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Free Thinking: Frieze: Museums in the 21st century

12/10/2021

Frieze: Museums in the 21st century

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Frieze: Museums in the 21st century

Anne McElvoy talks to the directors at London's National Gallery, Yale and New York's Met.

How have the pandemic and lockdowns, Black Lives Matter and changing art fashions affected the plans of gallery directors in London, New York & Connecticut? Anne McElvoy finds out.

The National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut were among the many arts institutions forced to close during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.  How has this experience changed the running of these galleries and museums?  Anne McElvoy talks to: 

Gabriele Finaldi - Director of the National Gallery in London, which filmed its Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition and then sold online passes to view the show.
Courtney J. Martin - Paul Mellon Director, Yale Center for British Art. 
Daniel Weiss - President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

You can find directors of museums and galleries in Singapore, Beijing, Paris, St Petersburg, Washington, Los Angeles, London and Dresden in previous Frieze/Free Thinking discussions.  There's a playlist on the Free Thinking website called Visual Arts which also includes conversations about colour in art, slow looking, women's art, Black British art, the role of critics.  

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