This is an illustration of the Freud Museum by Scottish illustrator Iain McIntosh for a project we are doing for six of London’s small historic houses, who are combining forces to promote their joint offering to visitors.
London Shh… (London Small Historic Houses) will launch later this year.
This month you can find an article I’ve written about social media in The Art Newspaper. In it I argue that museums need to step beyond just thinking of social media as a marketing tool and realise that it is changing the interaction between insitution and visitor.
The article is a precursor to me speaking at Communicating the Museum on the subject in June.
I escaped the office for a couple of hours today to visit A Duck for Mr Darwin, the new exhibition at the nearby BALTIC : Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition brings together the wok of nine artists, each responding to the concept of evolutionary thinking and the theory of natural selection.
My favorite work was by Conrad Shawcross (shown above), a hand-built boat carrying a special device for capturing 360-degree panoramic videos as the artist rowed down a canal. During voyages, a motor-driven platform holds a camera that takes in the full view of its surroundings as it slowly moves around a circular track mounted to the top of the small craft. Reconfigured in the gallery to accommodate a projector, this same revolving apparatus then “re-tells” the voyage by projecting the resulting footage on a small screen that moves in synchronization with it.
Next to the boat, the artist had mounted a collection of footballs he had collected from the canal on the wall.
The exhibition is on at BALTIC till September 20th.