Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery is encouraging debate about contemporary art.
At an event on Friday 16 May, a panel of experts will discuss with the audience how gallery curators decide what to include in an exhibition, what is shocking, and what a museum & art gallery should be showing in the 21st century.
The event will include debate about the works of Gilbert & George currently on display at RAMM, other works at the Museum, and contemporary art in general.
Those attending the event will have the opportunity to contribute to the...
RAMM is delighted to be presenting the art of Gilbert & George as part of the national ARTIST ROOMS programme in 2014.
Gilbert & George are among the most celebrated artists to have emerged from the art scene in the late 1960s.
Gilbert (b Dolomites, Italy, 1943) and George (b Plymouth, Devon, 1942) met in 1967 as students at St Martin's School of Art, London. By 1969 they were reacting against approaches to sculpture then dominant at St Martin's, which they regarded as elitist and poor at communicating outside an art context. Their strategy was to make themselves...
