Date: 22 March 2018 (Thursday) Dr. Tristram Hunt discusses how the Museum\u2019s founding commitment to art, education and industry continues to define its purpose today. From the new Exhibition Road Quarter\u00a0and the\u00a0V&A Gallery in Shenzhen, to exhibitions on embroidery, Ocean Liners and Opera, the V&A\u2019s past bridges its future.<\/p>\n Tracing the Museum\u2019s genesis from its Victorian roots in the Design School Movement of the 1830s and its establishment as the Museum of Manufactures in 1852, he considers how the V&A\u2019s British, Germanic, Indian and Oriental origins have engendered a world-class collection: a cultural lens to consider the Museum\u2019s evolving place in the world today. Dr. Hunt explores how museums can retain their relevance and purpose in our contemporary age of Brexit, Netflix and digital technology.<\/p>\n Speaker: Tristram Hunt<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Tristram Hunt became Director of the V&A, the world’s leading museum of art, design and performance, in February 2017. Formerly the UK Member of Parliament for Stake-on-Trent Central, he served as the Labour Party’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education. Between 2001-2010, Tristram combined his post as Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London, with work as a history broadcaster, presenting a range of radio and television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4. He is the author of several books, most recently Ten Cities That Made an Empire (2014).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n HKU Faculty of Arts\u2019\u00a0Behind the Scenes Lecture Series\u00a0<\/strong>aims to bring high-profile speakers from the international art world such as artists, curators, art historians, directors of galleries or museums, auction house principals, conservators, to highlight the work of professionals who help to keep art accessible for audiences now and in the future, and to expand awareness of and appreciation for art.\u00a0Our past speakers include\u00a0Larry Keith, Keeper of Conservation from the National Gallery, London\u00a0and\u00a0Marie-Louise Sauerberg\u00a0of Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" V&A: the Civic and the Global Date: 22 March 2018 (Thursday) Time: 7:00pm Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, HKU Dr. Tristram Hunt discusses how the Museum\u2019s founding commitment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3260,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[198,206,211],"tribe_events_cat":[19],"class_list":["post-3259","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-behindthescene","tag-curator","tag-hkuarts","tribe_events_cat-lecture-series","cat_lecture-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3259\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Time: 7:00pm
\n<\/strong>Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, HKU<\/strong><\/p>\n