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KANDINSKY, Vasilii, Acid Green Crescent © Amgueddfa Cymru
Learning Article
New poems by pupils across Wales
Sean Kenny, Senior Learning Officer, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
7 May 2024
Sean Kenny, Senior Learning Officer, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
7 May 2024
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MISTRY, Dhruva, Reguarding Guardians of Art © Dhruva Mistry, CBE RA/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Dhruva Mistry: From study to sculpture
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator: Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
24 April 2024
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator: Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
24 April 2024
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Learning Article
Behind the Scenes: Conservation
Sarah Bayliss and Kitty Caiden, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
15 April 2024
Sarah Bayliss and Kitty Caiden, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
15 April 2024
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Con Brio Centrepiece, NGUYEN, Theresa © Theresa Theper/Penelope and Oliver Makower(1974)Trust/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Con Brio Centrepiece: A P&O Makower Trust commission
Andrew Renton, Head of Design Collections, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
21 March 2024
Andrew Renton, Head of Design Collections, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
21 March 2024
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Ponterwyd / Gaia, JONES, Mary Lloyd © Mary Lloyd Jones
Cyfoes Exhibition: National Library of Wales
Morfudd Bevan and Nia Dafydd, National Library of Wales
19 March 2024
Morfudd Bevan and Nia Dafydd, National Library of Wales
19 March 2024
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Mounira Al Solh, In Love in Blood © Mounira Al Solh / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Artes Mundi 10: A new work for the Derek Williams Trust and Amgueddfa Cymru
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator: Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
9 February 2024
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator: Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
9 February 2024
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Comparing two artists: John Selway and Denys Short
Nicholas Thornton, Head of Fine and Contemporary Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
18 January 2024
Nicholas Thornton, Head of Fine and Contemporary Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
18 January 2024
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Oxfam Books and Music, Castle Street, Swansea © Oxfam Castle Street, Swansea
A new acquisition: David Shrigley's Pulped Fiction
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator: Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
21 December 2023
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator: Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
21 December 2023
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FLANAGAN, Barry, Small Nijinsky Hare © Artist Estate / Bridgeman
New British Sculpture of the 1980s
Jennifer Dudley, Art Collections Management and Access Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
20 November 2023
Jennifer Dudley, Art Collections Management and Access Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
20 November 2023
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Broken Yet Beautiful
Apekshit Sharma, Curatorial Intern, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
14 November 2023
Apekshit Sharma, Curatorial Intern, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
14 November 2023
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The Rainbow, TURNER, J.M.W., © Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Art in Hospitals: Working with Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Sara Treble-Parry and Steph Roberts
15 September 2023
Sara Treble-Parry and Steph Roberts
15 September 2023
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7 Quick Questions with Chloe Jones from the Demystifying Acquisitions Group
Chloe Jones
31 July 2023
Chloe Jones
31 July 2023
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Demystifying Acquisitions: label writing, conservation and going against the grain – a look behind the curtain
Abraham Makanjuola
28 July 2023
Abraham Makanjuola
28 July 2023
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Learning Article
The Chester Play of the Deluge - David Jones from sketch to print
Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
12 April 2023
Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
12 April 2023
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Learning Article
What Can you Do in a Gallery?
Sean Kenny, Senior Learning Officer, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
5 April 2023
Sean Kenny, Senior Learning Officer, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
5 April 2023
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Escape, REGO, Paula, © Ostrich Arts Ltd/Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Brutally Honest: The Female Genital Mutilation Series by Paula Rego
Melissa Munro, Senior Curator: Derek Williams Collection
12 February 2023
Melissa Munro, Senior Curator: Derek Williams Collection
12 February 2023
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The Rules of Art? A discussion with artist Caroline Walker
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator: Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
12 February 2023
Carys Tudor, Digital Curator: Art, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
12 February 2023
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Cardiff v Everton football match. 1977, HURN, David, © David Hurn/Magnum/Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Learning Article
Welsh Football and Art
Sean Kenny, Senior Learning Officer, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
25 January 2023
Sean Kenny, Senior Learning Officer, Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
25 January 2023
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Issue 8: Making New Work – Artists Respond to the Now
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Editor's notes
Making New Work: Artists Respond to the Now
Amgueddfa Cymru and Arts Council of Wales
20 December 2021
Amgueddfa Cymru and Arts Council of Wales
20 December 2021
Issue 7: Power, Money and Visual Culture
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The Writing on the Wall: Marginalised Communities and Graffiti as Resistance
Georgia Day
24 November 2021
Georgia Day
24 November 2021
Issue 6: Art and Music
Issue 5: Cynefin/Habitat
Issue 4: Queer Looking
Issue 3: Art, Food and the Environment
Issue 2: Arts in Health
Issue 1: Black Lives Matter
Editor's notes
Black Lives Matter: Moving from Black History to Black bodies, the politics projected onto them and the memories they hold.
Umulkhayr Mohamed
13 October 2020
Umulkhayr Mohamed
13 October 2020
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Liquid Gold: looking at the liquidity of meaning and merit ascribed to gold across time and cultures
Sharon Kostini & Maoa Eliam
13 October 2020
Sharon Kostini & Maoa Eliam
13 October 2020
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Reimagining Ndidi Ekubia’s The Punchbowl and ladle as an allegory for identity, hope and change
Korkor Kanor
13 October 2020
Korkor Kanor
13 October 2020