The Frieze Debate: Museums in the 21st Century

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Museum directors from USA, Austria and Britain look at the challenges of displaying their collections for new audiences. Anne McElvoy's guests include Michael Govan, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA, Sabine Haag, Director, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum.

Recorded with an audience at the Royal Institution in London as one of the events for the 2018 Frieze London Art Fair.

Find our playlist of discussions about the Visual Arts https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p026wnjl

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

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0:32.4	This is the BBC.
0:37.3	Hello, I'm Anne McHelvoy.
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1:05.5	Hello and welcome to the Royal Institution in the heart of London's Mayfair for a special edition of
1:12.4	Free Thinking, where as part of the 2018 Freeze London Art Fair, we're discussing how museums
1:19.2	can make their collections relevant to today's audiences. We'd like to explore how they're
1:25.0	meeting the challenges presented by a globalized and digital world.
1:29.3	So I'm joined by three distinguished museum directors, all ideally positioned to answer those questions.
1:36.3	Michael Govan is director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
1:40.3	Sabine Haag is director of the Kunst Historicistores Museum in Vienna, and Hartwig Fisher is director of the British Museum here in London.
1:49.9	I'd like to start by getting a sense of your various organisations.
1:54.4	Michael, I'm turning to you.
1:56.2	What are the key facts that we should know about the Los Angeles County Museum of Art?
2:01.6	LACMA.
2:02.6	LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the Western United States.
2:10.6	And we have collections of art from all time and place, but we were also one of the youngest museums of our kind. In fact,
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