Our first ever printed edition! Designed by Chris Neophytou & made real by The Holodeck featuring Leicester Museums & Galleries TheNewArtGalleryWalsall Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
You can pick up a free (limited & extremely beautiful) copy of MAP 6 'Exile & Migration in Regional Collections' The Barber Institute front desk

We had a brilliant afternoon launch session yesterday with some of our partners Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Wolverhampton Art Gallery LeamGallery&Museum Redmarley The Barber Institute : exciting times ahead for MAP ... I'll be sharing articles every day over the next week

Have you seen our latest issue of Midlands Arts Papers (Midlands Art Papers)?

This issue focuses on exile & #Migration in regional collections 🖼️

Explore the full issue here:👉🏼birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/…

What can a bike in Thinktank Birmingham tell us about histories of technology and empire? A new article by historian Nathan Cardon explores cycling as an act of resistance to British imperial occupation of eastern African @thinktankmuseum College of Arts+Law birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/…

Issue 6 of MAP will be launching shortly (watch this space) meantime there is lots to explore in MAP 5, on intersections between histories of art, sport, and empire, spurred on by (and thinking critically about) the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham... birmingham.ac.uk/map5

Storyteller Alison Solomon responds to The Barber Institute exhibition 'Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500-1860', drawing connections between colonialism and the exhibition of people and animals in short story 'Enter Two Zoos' tinyurl.com/mryehfxe

Why does The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent have a collection of South Asian pottery? Curator of Arts Samantha Howard explores collections connections between India & Stoke-on-Trent ⬇️⬇️birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/…

📢I'll be tweeting links to new articles every day this week, including The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Wolverhampton Art Gallery The Barber Institute ... watch this space to find out more

What are the connections between art, manufacture & empire in Midlands collections? Find out more in a new special issue of MAP, which critically explores these connections to mark the arrival of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham bham.ac.uk/map5

V excited to announce 'Imperial Encounters: Art, museums and education at the crossroads of empire and post-Brexit Britain', conference - 10 June - & an amazing line up of museum practitioners, academics & artists incl. sara wajid Dorothy Price Tara Munroe birmingham.ac.uk/schools/lcahm/…

Amazing work by @cookingsections at the #TurnerPrize2021 opening at the #herbertartgallery Coventry last night. Love it!

The #TurnerPrize2021 exhibition - a highlight of the Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 celebrations - opens at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum tomorrow. (1/5)

Fantastic free event: Post War Women Painters in Regional Collections TheNewArtGalleryWalsall Walsall, 9th September 2021. For a full programme and to book : eventbrite.co.uk/e/postwar-brit… #BritishArtNetwork

Come and see The D-Day Darlings at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery on the 17th of September to celebrate their new Spitfire Gallery!
Book now!
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/

Check out this WW2 themed event on Saturday 18th of September to celebrate the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery's new Spitfire Gallery!
Take part in activities which transport you to life on the home front!
Free Entry.
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/

What impact did sculpture have on post-war Coventry (designated Britain’s City of Culture for 2021)? Find out in the article Modern Mercia: A Lockdown Exhibition in the new issue of Midland Art Papers. bham.ac.uk/map

Love post-war art and design? Check out the new article about the exhibition Modern Mercia: art and design in Coventry and Warwickshire 1945-70 at Leamington Art Gallery & Museum in the latest issue of Midland Art Papers. bham.ac.uk/map