The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate: Museums in the 21st Century
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Directors of the Hermitage, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the National Gallery, Singapore explain how they are dealing both with the challenge of Covid-19 and the greater accountability demanded by worldwide social justice movements. Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion organised in collaboration with Frieze Masters and Frieze London, talking to:
Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Kaywin Feldman, Director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Chong Siak Ching, CEO of the National Gallery of Singapore.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod.
You can find previous discussions recorded with Frieze on the Free Thinking website and available to download as BBC Arts & Ideas podcasts. And this episode is part of the #MuseumPassion series of programmes being broadcast by the BBC in early October 2020
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| 0:40.6 | I'm going to be talking to the directors of some of the world's greatest museums |
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| 1:31.5 | Hello, it's Freeze Week, the time when art lovers, collectors and sellers traditionally converge on London. |
| 1:38.5 | Obviously this year that's all happening a bit differently, but we are able to bring you this programme |
| 1:43.4 | in collaboration with |
| 1:44.6 | Freeze Masters and Freeze London to discover how the directors of some of the major art museums |
| 1:49.4 | around the world are facing up to the substantial challenges 2020 has handed them. |
| 1:55.0 | Joining me are Chong Tiak Ching, CEO of the National Gallery, Singapore. Mikhail Piotrowski, |
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