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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 3โ€™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.

Iโ€™m taking part in a panel on โ€˜Rural Britain and Everyday Modernismโ€™ at this yearโ€™s British Association for Modernist Studiesโ€™ 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 ยฉ 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)โ€™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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