About a year ago, we published a summary of the annual report produced by the Center for the Future of Museums: this month they have just published the corresponding report for 2016, the TrendsWatch 2016, ...
The future of museums: report TrendsWatch 2015
The American Alliance of Museums’ Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) has published their annual report TrendsWatch, the fourth they issue. The CFM is a think tank and R & D lab for fostering ...
The memoires of Joan Gaspar and Elvira Farreras in the Reading Club
One of the most repeated expressions in the last session of the year was 'testimony of exception'. Counting on the presence of Joan Gaspar Farreras, founder of the Joan Gaspar Gallery and son of Joan ...
Picasso on the Barcelona of the 60s
This past month of May, the roundtable about “Picasso in the Barcelona of the 60s” took place, bringing together expert historians, writers and architects to talk about the context of the birth of the museum ...
January Reading Club: a great session for a great book
The session with Sergi Pàmies reminded us of the great sessions of our club, in which interesting conversation was accompanied by a great sense of humour. (more…)
Toolkit lifestyle profiles: view on culture
Last month I was in Rotterdam to join a program of conferences called Audiences Insight/ Out. The last session organised by Flanders CultuurNet, consist in doing a workshop based in Flanders, in 2003 and 2009 ...
Cultural Diffusion, Participation and the New Technologies
In this last couple of weeks I have attended two very interesting seminars which drew attention to the need to rethink the methods of disseminating culture in today's society. What is art? What is communication? ...
Museums as part of society – and vice versa
As head of the Visitor Services department I have just spent three days visiting some of the most famous museums in the city of London - the British Museum, the National Gallery, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. In all of ...