Behind the Scenes at the Museum Podcast
1) The British Empire and Us: Nigel Biggar and James Heartfield disagree
The British Empire and Us: a civilised disagreement with Nigel Biggar and James Heartfield Over the last five to ten years, factious arguments about the British empire, about toppling the monumen...Show More
2) The Museum of Other People - an interview with anthropologist Adam Kuper
Tiffany Jenkins interviews the anthropologist Adam Kuper about his new book, The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Exhibitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions. Adam talks about the history of anthropo...Show More
3) A Conversation with Sir Peter Bazalgette
Sir Peter Bazalgette has had a long and productive career in the arts. He is currently non-executive chairman of ITV, where we meet for a wide-ranging conversation. He has been Chairman of English Nat...Show More
4) Cancelled! Censorship and self-censorship in the arts
Censorship of the arts is on the increase: both that imposed from above, by the state, but also from below, with artists calling for works to be taken down from display. This episode of Behind the Sce...Show More
5) "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." New York's Tenement Museum
Tiffany visits the Tenement Museum in New York with its President, Kevin Jennings. Located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the museum is formed from two historical te...Show More
"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better." New York's Tenement Museum
35:56 | Nov 27th, 2019
6) How to solve a problem like Titian's Tarquin and Lucretia: rehanging paintings in the age of #MeToo
Tiffany Jenkins goes to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to talk to its director Luke Syson, art historian Jill Burke and Michael Savage (aka Grumpy Art Historian) about Titian’s Tarquin and Lucret...Show More
7) Vera Worth's Schiaparelli
Vera Worth was a good looking shop girl from Bristol, who followed fashion with a passion. In the 1930s, after marrying John, she scrimped and saved to buy a glamorous gown fit for a film star, and wo...Show More
8) The Last Colonial Museum
The Africa Museum in Brussels reopened at the end of 2018 after a 5 year renovation. Tiffany Jenkins and Fiammetta Rocco, culture correspondent at The Economist, tour the museum with its Director-Gen...Show More
9) Sackler sponsorship: should art be on the side of the angels?
Tiffany is joined by the art critic and TV documentary maker, Waldemar Januszczak, the writer Michael Savage (Grumpy Art Historian), and the ex-museum director, Tom Freudenheim (Old Fart Thoughts On M...Show More
10) Everything you didn't know about the Renaissance Nude, with Jill Burke
Tiffany Jenkins talks to Jill Burke, a prize-winning researcher in Italian Renaissance art history, senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and associate editor of Renaissance Studies, about t...Show More