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The Arts League of Service on BBC Radio 3

15th Jun 202215th Jun 2022 Emma WestLeave a comment
A postcard of the Arts League of Service in front of their van, early 1920s

This week I discussed the Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre with Shahidha Bari and guests on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged Arts League of Service, BBC, Free Thinking, modernism

Rural Britain and Everyday Modernism

11th May 202215th Jun 2022 Emma WestLeave a comment
A black and white wood engraving which shows a man and a dog walking through a forest to get to a village pub. They are surrounded by trees and fields.

I’m taking part in a panel on ‘Rural Britain and Everyday Modernism’ at this year’s British Association for Modernist Studies’ conference, Hopeful Modernisms.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged Art for the People, Arts League of Service, democratisation, modernism, rural modernity, talk, wood engraving

Keynes & the Arts Council on Radio 3

9th Mar 202215th Jun 2022 Emma WestLeave a comment

I recently spoke to Anne McElvoy and guests on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking about the economist John Maynard Keynes's work for the early Arts Council. Image: John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova by Walter Bennington, NPG x90117 © National Portrait Gallery, London.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged Arts Council, arts organisations, BBC, CEMA, Free Thinking, John Maynard Keynes, state patronage

New Generation Thinkers

9th Dec 20219th Dec 2021 Emma WestLeave a comment
A black and white photograph of a crowd gathered outside a village hall in 1922

This week I was delighted to be shortlisted for the BBC Radio 3 and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)’s New Generation Thinkers scheme, which gives arts and humanities researchers the chance to turn their research into programmes for BBC radio.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged Arts League of Service, memorials, village halls

Art magazines as middlebrow spaces – a talk at AAH 2021

29th Mar 2021 Emma WestLeave a comment

I'll be sharing my research into art and design magazines at this year's Association for Art History conference.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged art, art education, magazines, middlebrow, periodicals, talk

Reading the Institutional Archive – a talk at UEA

26th Feb 202129th Mar 2021 Emma WestLeave a comment

I'm delighted to be giving a talk on Wednesday 17 March at the University of East Anglia's Modern and Contemporary Seminar.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged archives, Artists International Association, institutions, politics, talk

The Empire Marketing Board: new article in Modernism/modernity

18th Jan 202115th Jun 2022 Emma WestLeave a comment

My article on Empire Marketing Board posters is now available at Modernism/modernity as part of a cluster of essays on 'Modernist Institutions'.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged colonialism, Empire Marketing Board, graphic design, institutions, modernism, posters

The interwar campaign for peace

29th Nov 202029th Mar 2021 Emma WestLeave a comment

My recent talk about the Welsh National Temple of Peace and Health is now available to watch online.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged architecture, interwar, peace, Temple of Peace

Postcards in Isolation: Barbara Hepworth

21st May 202021st May 2020 Emma WestLeave a comment

As part of the Lucy Writers series Postcards in Isolation, edited by Rochelle Roberts, I've written about Barbara Hepworth's 1965 sculpture Spring.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged Barbara Hepworth, sculpture, women

The Arts League of Service in Modernist Cultures

30th Mar 202027th Apr 2020 Emma WestLeave a comment

My article on the Arts League of Service has been published in the academic journal Modernist Cultures.

Posted in News & ReviewsTagged Art for the People, Arts League of Service, arts organisations, democratisation, Travelling Theatre

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