Museums and galleries

For 2019 Shubbak has commissioned a number of mobile installations for different locations across London.

Bricklab, the designers of the first Saudi pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale create a new pop-up sculpture especially for Shubbak. 22 brightly coloured units equalling in number the 22 states of the Arab League are arranged in different constellations to offer new viewpoints of geographies, nations and the power to imagine other realities. No unit can stand on its own, but has to be grafted onto others.

The 17th annual London Design Festival takes place 14–22 September 2019 at V&A where curated collections of displays and installations and the Global Design Forum will showcase innovative, breathtaking British design. Various locations in the city will also play host to signature projects.

Design Districts, Landmark Projects, Festival Commissions and other special projects are the key attractions throught the city and this year's are:

The European Commission will provide funding to new projects for creative and audiovisual institutions using digital and new technologies.

This funding will be available to consortiums of organisations from at least three countries participating in Creative Europe representing a diverse range of cultural and creative sectors, including audiovisual. 

With a pot of around 1.75 million Euros, the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency estimates funding for 6–10 projects at a minimum of 150,000 Euros for a maximum 60% of total eligible cost for the project.

Did you know that Waddesdon Manor houses an outstanding collection of Dutch paintings?

Waddesdon Manor asks “Have you got a Hodgkin at home?”

As part of its preparations for Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered (25 May – 20 October 2019) - the first major exhibition of the artist’s work in nearly thirty years – Waddesdon Manor and members of Hodgkin’s family are keen to trace ‘lost’ works by the British painter who very much deserves to be returned to the spotlight.

ArtFund has chosen its five nominees for Museum of the Year 2019, including one from each of the devolved nations. The winner will receive £100,000.

The nominees are:

• HMS Caroline, Belfast
• Nottingham Contemporary
• Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
• St Fagan's National Museum of History, Cardiff
• V&A Dundee

Read more about each of the nominees here.

Dundee has benefitted from Scotland's first museum of design, V&A Dundee, since its opening in September 2018 with a boost in visitor numbers.

V&A Dundee has welcomed more than 340,000 people in its first three months of operation. Other cultural venues in the area that have benefitted from the new musuem include:

Discovery Point – site of the Antarctic-exploring RSS Discovery ship and museum – saw its visitor numbers increase by 40 per cent in 2018

McManus Art Gallery & Museum saw a 31 per cent increase.

William Fowler, curator of Artists' Moving Image at the British Film Institute, was invited to China to give a series of talks on the BFI/LUX This is Now touring programme. He tells us more about the trip and about the appetite for artists' moving image in China.

“I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place where we really do”

— Maya Angelou

MAKE 2019 is the Devon Guild's annual Christmas selling exhibiton, celebrating the diversity of contemporary craft. It's a show that focuses on selling handmade, high quality craftsmanship and connecting makers with our Christmas customers who come from all over Devon and beyond, for seasonal shopping. By highlighting one-off, unique pieces alongside small scale batch production we aim to offer a range of mediums and prices to suit all.