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Here we are. The first maxwell museums newsletter, bringing together everything that's brilliant about museums: from art and architecture, to lifestyle and travel. All in joyful, manageable, fortnightly (probably) editions. It's rough and ready right now, but tell me how to make it super. And don't forget to share with your museum-loving mates. Thanks for subscribing! Let's dive in.
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all the news
Huge coup for Tate Britain, as Oscar and Turner winning artist Steve McQueen not only gets his own exhibition, he will stage one of the world's most ambitious art projects, photographing every year 3 pupil in London. Read more at the Guardian.
Big news from the US. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will leave the Breuer building on Madison Avenue in 2020, to be replaced by the Frick Collection. Read more at the Art Newspaper.
Shameless plug alert! The British Museum will display Japanese artworks - the first 3D manga cartoon in porcelain - in the shape of takeaway food you can find on Seven Sisters Road in London. They can be seen in the new Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries. Read more at the Evening Standard.
Wowzer. 27,000 people visited the brand-spanking new V&A Dundee in it's first 7 days, cementing it as the hottest cultural opening of the year. Read more on BBC News.
There's a battle going on between UK museums and a group of hedge funds over a huge collection of 5000 objects from the Titanic. Valued at $200 million, the museums at least have Oscar-winning director James Cameron's backing. Read more at artnet.
Large feather leaves bowl, going on show in the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries at the British Museum
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in depth
People love museums. People love instagram. The New Yorker examines the crossover, and it's candy-coloured. Read more at the New Yorker.
Don't go booking your flights to the 2019 European Capital of Culture just yet as Matera in southern Italy has been hit with all sorts of delays. Will any of it be ready in time? Read more in the Observer.
weigh up
review roundup
The Tuner Prize, Britain's biggest visual art award, returns to London this week after last year's trip to Hull. For the first time, all of the artist work on show are moving image pieces.(Irish News) The Guardian loved it, awarding it 5 stars and calling it "the best lineup for years". The Telegraph didn't hate it, but states that if this is the future of art "god help us". The Independent did hate it: "miserable, tedious, poker-faced". Ouch.
The Turner Prize opens at Tate Britain on 26 September. tate.org.uk
Knock Knock at South London Gallery. Photo: @maxwellmuseums
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don't miss
Last week I was lucky enough to attend the opening party of South London Gallery's new Fire Station venue. Situated just across the road from the main home, it is a stunning space, and astonishingly was given to the Gallery for absolutely nothing (read a brilliant interview with Director Margot Heller in the Times (paywall)) . It's first exhibition Knock Knock is shared between both buildings and examines humour in art. See my insta above. No mean feat after a few sips of fizz. My advice: visit the Fire Station asap.
Key openings in this hugely busy art week inlcudes the Royal Academy's exhibition Oceania which opens on 29 September. The Evening Standard tells you everything you need to know. And another show I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT IS Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue. Opening at the Whitechapel Gallery on 27 September, whet you appetite with an interview with the pair in the Guardian.
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