Challenging ‘the ocean of mediocrity and pretence’? The alternative visions of the Whitworth and Harris galleries

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-250
Author(s):  
James Moore
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural Leaders

The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester and the Harris Museum and Gallery in Preston provided an alternative vision for the future of art galleries. Rejecting what they saw as excessive commercialism and populism these galleries defined different approaches to public art. This chapter examines these approaches and assesses both their successes and their cultural significance for the region. It also raises question about the nature of ‘public art’ – could it be genuinely inclusive, while being led by an essentially small group of cultural leaders?

Lowcountry Visions: Foodways and Race in Coastal South Carolina

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levi Van Sant
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dominant Tendency

The coastal region surrounding Charleston, South Carolina—commonly referred to as the Lowcountry—is a place famous for its foodways. Lowcountry cuisine is often portrayed as convivial and celebrated as multicultural. This article argues, however, that much of the Lowcountry's food culture is marked by the region's history of racism. It is important not only to recognize this dominant tendency, but also to acknowledge attempts to challenge it. Thus, this article also highlights recent efforts to articulate an alternative vision of the region and its cuisine. By investigating what is at stake when regional cuisines are contested, I attempt to place the future of Lowcountry food on firmer footing.

Deal of the Day

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Edward Boon ◽  
Nir Ofek
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Price Sensitivity ◽  
Purchase Frequency ◽  
Large Group ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Restaurant Meals ◽  
Deal Of The Day

Deal of the day is a form of e-commerce in which an intermediary allows merchants access to a subscriber list, to promote their offerings at a discount. This study performs a cluster analysis on the purchase history of a deal intermediary, to identify customer segments based on their purchase frequency, price sensitivity and the types of deal they buy. Five segments were identified, including a large group of customers who made one purchase and then stopped buying, a small group of extremely deal-prone subscribers, and a segment that limits their purchases to very few types of product (e.g. restaurant meals or spa treatments). The findings further show that targeting deals to specific customers may be desirable in the future to prevent information overload and ensure loyalty.

The Future of Small Group Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joann Keyton
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Group Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Small Group Research

scholarly journals Healthcare Transformation

The Meducator ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Universal Healthcare ◽  
The Future ◽  
Healthcare Transformation

In collaboration with the McMaster Health Forum Student Subcommittee, The Meducator is pleased to introduce ForumSpace, a column which aims to educate readers on current issues in the health sciences, particularly health policy, so as to engage students and promote active discussion. The Student Subcommittee oversees student-led activities designed to offer opportunities to explore issues of interest to McMaster students and the public, in line with a key mandate of the McMaster Health Forum—to nurture the leaders of tomorrow by exposing them to the leading thinkers and doers of today. This inaugural paper in the ForumSpace follows the event ‘Ill-Informed: The Future of Universal Healthcare in Canada’, held earlier this year, which inspired a small group of students to think further about these issues. Among them is the author of this article, Adrian Tsang, who is also a member of the Student Subcommittee. The aim of this article is to present some of those opinions and how they could contribute to the transformation of Canada’s healthcare system. The views expressed in this article are the views of the author and should not be taken to represent the views of the McMaster Health Forum.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeehyun Lim
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
A Site ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
The Relationship

The epilogue reflects on the future of bilingual brokering in the twenty-first century through David Henry Hwang’s bilingual play, Chinglish. While Chinglish seemingly overturns the social construction of bilingual personhood along the terms of possessive individualism by championing interlingual lapses, irregularities, and mistakes, this attempt to free the linguistic subject from the constraints of language as capital is delivered through a careful rendition of English-Mandarin bilingualism, enabled through such institutional actors’ interest in the play as the Chinese state. These conditions of possibility for Hwang’s bilingual play serve as a reminder that while bilingual personhood may recede from cultural significance as a site of examining the relationship between racial subjectivity and capital, bilingualism in cultural politics is still enmeshed in the flows of capital.

Selfies in the public art gallery and copyright permissions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-197
Author(s):  
Jonathan Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
General Society

Public art galleries have traditionally prohibited visitors from photographing exhibited artworks. Today, however, photography in the gallery is invariably permitted and commonly encouraged, including visitors taking selfies. Copyright law and practice has generally responded to new techniques of reproduction, such as etchings and photographs, and how those technologies are used in commerce and general society. The selfie is a cultural phenomenon that invites re-examination of some areas of copyright law and practice, notably, permitted acts. Has copyright law, in particular freedom of panorama, kept pace with the phenomenon of selfies in the gallery? This article seeks to answer that question and also considers whether the photography policies of leading public galleries present better ways of engaging with the selfie phenomenon than does the current law.

The Up Series and the Future of Representation

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-131
Author(s):  
Joshua Foa Dienstag
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
The Future

Why are democratic populations so dissatisfied with their representatives even when elections are free and fair and the representatives are honest and well-informed about their constituents’ desires? The Up documentary series, which follow the same small group of Britons for fifty years, helps us to understand and address this perpetual problem. Humans are hard to represent, both because they are always growing and changing and because they are often opaque to themselves. Thus, human freedom and any static representation are in permanent tension. Individually, the Up films each have this problem, but as a series, they are an accumulating presentation of citizens as emergent in time and therefore show something of their subjects that they cannot show by themselves. Representation, properly structured, may express freedom, but it cannot embody it. The Up films do not show how representation can succeed but how it can fail better.

The Slavophiles

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Paul Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
The State ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Autocratic Regime ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government

This chapter discusses the Slavophiles. They were a small group of mostly Moscow-based intellectuals who came together in the mid-1840s after a split with the so-called “Westernizers.” The Slavophiles were loyal to the autocratic regime, but their views on the nature of the nation and the state, as well as on specific issues such as free speech, departed from the official line. As a result, the government viewed them with definite suspicion. In general the Slavophiles found it difficult to make their opinions heard. It was only after the death of Nicholas I that they were finally given permission to publish a journal of their own. Despite the restrictions on spreading their views, they were to have a profound impact on the future of Russian conservatism.

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