Modern African Art in the Argyll Collection
In 2018 Dr Kate Cowcher found a painting by Tanzanian artist Samuel Ntiro in a public collection on Scotland’s west coast.
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Touching books
An exhibition at Oxford co-curated by Kathryn Rudy explores how people handled, touched, annotated, and inadvertently damaged their books in the era before screens.
Community Museums: Stronger Together
EU-LAC Museums brings together community museums, who often serve a vital purpose in local development and community empowerment.
Public Art in Scotland’s New Towns
Andrew Demetrius has been advising Meet You at the Hippos, which will broadcast on 30th November on BBC Scotland.
3-dimensional thinking: from its roots to universal influence
The Thinking 3D project has changed perceptions of early modern printed books, and inspired museums around the world to experiment with how they share information.
Thinking 3D: three-dimensionality and its impact on the arts and sciences
Thinking 3D is an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of three-dimensionality and its impact on the arts and sciences; an innovative project which puts the minds of the 21st century in touch with those of…
Art explaining semiconductors
The use of creative art for explaining organic semiconductors Nedyalka Panova (artist-in-residence) | Organic Semiconductor Centre,School of Physics & Astronomy My work explores the boundaries between art and science,…
Virtual Museums
Dr Alan Miller, Dr Karen Brown & Catherine Cassidy | School of Computer Science, School of Art History & Open Virtual Worlds Recent advances in the computational power and graphic capabilities of mobile phones and…
Light Box – bringing together culture and science
Light Box celebrates light in all its aspects – solar, sacred, scientific, nourishing, and poetic. Produced as a result of meetings between Professor Crawford and McBeath and contemporary physicists whose work centres…
Daniele Barbaro (1514-70): In and Beyond the Text
The Venetian patrician, Daniele Barbaro, was one of the greatest intellectuals of his time and a prominent patron of artists and scholars, such as Palladio, Veronese and Titian. A complex and multi-faceted personality,…