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  • Should art be on the side of the angels?

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on May 3, 2019May 15, 2019

    In EPISODE 3 of the Behind the Scenes at the Museum podcast, Tiffany is joined by the art critic and TV documentary maker, Waldemar Januszczak, the writer Michael Savage (Grumpy Art Historian), and the ex-museum …

    behind the scenes at the museum
  • Everything you didn’t know about the Renaissance Nude, with Jill Burke

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on April 9, 2019April 9, 2019

    EPISODE 2 of the Behind the Scenes at the Museum 🎙 is now out! Tiffany talks to Jill Burke, a prize-winning researcher in Italian Renaissance art history, senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and …

    behind the scenes at the museum
  • Contracts of Silence

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on February 11, 2019April 20, 2019

    Gagging clauses’ – NDAs or non-disclosure agreements – have been rarely out of the headlines in recent months. High profile cases in business, politics and celebrity life have prompted calls for an outright ban, particularly …

    Broadcasting
  • Shhh! A Narrative History of Secrecy

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on January 21, 2019April 20, 2019

    Secrets have never been more suspect. Post Snowden, post Saville, post the Catholic Church abuse scandal, institutions which keep secrets are automatically seen as having something to hide, and openness and transparency are seen as the new imperatives. Any deviation from the new orthodoxy of honesty is punished – by exposure. But the story of secrecy is not as black and white as our contemporary prejudices would have it. For centuries secrecy has been seen to serve a useful purpose. It has protected citizens from the prying eyes of governments, it has protected the feelings of individuals and kept couples together. Have we lost more than we have gained by abandoning our respect for the power and sanctity of secrecy? Tiffany Jenkins presents a history of secrecy driven by a thesis which challenges the conventional wisdom of the moment.

    arts comment, Broadcasting, secrecy
  • Culture: who pays?

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on January 17, 2019March 13, 2019

    Filmed at the Battle of Ideas, a panel discuss funding for the arts and culture. The speakers in this conversation are Sean Gregory, Alexander Adams, Dr Tiffany Jenkins, Barb Jungr with Claire Fox who also …

    arts funding, Panel debate, Video link
  • My secret life: on the benefits of secrecy

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on December 31, 2018March 12, 2019

    At the heart of The Secret Garden, the much-loved children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, in which a disagreeable orphan is transformed into a flourishing young girl, lies the protective power of secrecy.

    journalism, secrecy
  • Keeping Their Marbles – ‘an outstanding achievement… wide-ranging and incisive.’

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on November 30, 2018December 11, 2018

    In October 1860, during the Second Opium War, British and French forces attacked the Summer Palace near what was then Peking. Built of jade and marble and filled with treasures crafted exclusively for the imperial family, it had been described as a “dazzling cavern of human fantasy”. Three days of looting left it a smoking ruin. Eyewitnesses told of soldiers carrying off strings of pearls and pencil cases set with diamonds. The empress’s pekinese was also taken and, tactlessly renamed “Looty”, presented to Queen Victoria.

    Keeping Their Marbles
  • Great collectors used to have great taste. Now they simply show off their wealth

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on November 23, 2018January 17, 2019

    Article published in The Observer on the Leonardo and contemporary collecting. If you walk around Mayfair or Manhattan at twilight and look up, you could glimpse a Damien Hirst spot painting through an apartment window. The simple …

    arts comment
  • ‘Courageous and well argued.’ Henrik Bering reviews Keeping Their Marbles

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on July 13, 2018April 24, 2019

    But what concerns Ms. Jenkins is not so much the legal arguments but something deeper: From the early days of private curio cabinets and onward, the underlying idea of a museum was a desire to understand the world, an ambition to tell a common story. Thus the Enlightenment espoused the notion of a common civilization of mankind— Voltaire saw man as being “always what he is now.” It is this idea of universalism, the museum as a place of shared experience, that has come under attack.

    Keeping Their Marbles
  • On the need for judgement about quality in art, culture and life.

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on July 6, 2018October 12, 2018

    In this talk recorded for Radio 4, Tiffany Jenkins argues that we need more judgement about quality in art, culture and life.

    Broadcasting, Uncategorized
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