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An art historian at the University of Leeds is helping to nurture the appreciation of art among teenagers as part of a national contest that was featured on BBC Two on Monday.

Dr Abigail Harrison Moore from the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage featured in The Guardian this week, commenting on a campaign aimed at giving more students access to art history as an A-Level subject.

The Yorkshire regional heat of this year’s ARTiculation Prize took place at The Hepworth Wakefield earlier this month, adjudicated by Dr Abigail Harrison Moore

Nordic Art : The Modern Breakthrough 1860-1920, edited by Professor David Jackson (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies), was recently named one of the year’s essential art books by Brian Sewell in the London Evening Standard

Nick Cass, Research Associate at the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage, is one of the speakers at a conference at the Royal Museums Greenwich on Friday 14 February.

MA Art Galleries and Museums Studies alumna, Freya Jewitt, was recently featured in an article in education section of The Guardian

Programme Director for the MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies, Dr Abigail Harrison Moore, is to adjudicate one of the local heats of this year’s ARTiculation Prize.

Call for applicants.
 
The UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS and UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON are recruiting two PhD students to join an AHRC funded, Open University led project ‘Developing a co-produced, digital, and living archive of learning disability history: An exploration of ethics, ownership and new connectivities’. Start date 31 March 2014.

This conference at the Bowes Museum aims to consider the Period Room from a wide variety of perspectives in order to address some key questions about Period Rooms and the history of Period Rooms display in Museums.

We’re currently calling for speakers prepared to rise to the challenge of sharing their current work in three minutes at our next Heritage Show + Tell event in March.