This Conference is a collaboration between The British Museum and the MA Curating Contemporary Design course of the Faculty of Art, Design and Music, Kingston University, organised jointly by Kingston University and the Design Museum.

Collecting Now

When:Saturday 8th March 2003

Time10:30-17:00

Where:Stevenson Lecture Theatre, The British Museum

It will consider the British Museum's mission for collecting the modern and will reflect more broadly on collecting now, including issues of globalisation, identity and the responsibilties of museum collectors.

Programme titles include:

'Elective Affinities: Collecting the modern world for the British Museum'

'What makes an icon? The Bauhaus tea-infuser'

'Modernity and tradition in the Contemporary Art of the Middle East: Leila Shawa and other Artists' - This talk takes place at 12:30 am, and will take a look at the work of Leila Shawa and other Artists such as Ali Omar Ermes and Khusraw Hasan Zade. It will focus on the question of what connects and what seperates their work from the traditions and conventions of pre-modern 'Islamic Art'.

'Money or messge? Banknotes and Identity in Eastern Europe'

Striking Tents: Central Asia felts from Kyrgyzstan

Images of War

Collecting for whom?

An Art Conference not to be missed!