In conjunction with Reeves, TAL and EC Group, TheFrameworks is pleased to announce the third ‘In just 60 minutes event!’ with Greg Dyke.
In his four years as Director-General of the BBC, Greg Dyke started four new digital television channels, five new digital radio channels, opened two new BBC regions, launched the BBC’s interactive television services and helped create Freeview. Greg reversed the trend at the BBC, which took employees away from making programmes and made them into managers. In doing so he reduced administration costs dramatically from 24% of total income to 15%. In 2005 he became chairman of HIT and in 2006 he became chairman of Brentford Football Club.
Greg will be discussing ‘Our failing democracy – will the coalition last long enough to save it?’
Date of event
Thursday 21 October 2010, 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm
Where
Pewterers’ Hall, Oat Lane, London EC2V 7DE
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Contact
The event is free, to register please click here.
A fantastic new exhibition has just opened at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.
Johnnie Shand Kydd is an acclaimed documentary photographer perhaps best known for his portraits of artist friends such as Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. In 2000 he embarked on a longterm project to capture the dramatic and chaotic world of Naples. Having never visited the city before, he soon developed a relationship with it that he described as ‘akin to a drug habit’, returning again and again over the next eight years.
Naples is known as the ‘Siren City’ because of the legend of Parthenope who, having failed to seduce Ulysses with the beauty of her song, threw herself into the sea and was washed ashore at the place that was to become Naples. Documenting the city’s streets, culture, traditions and people, Shand Kydd was seduced by its contradictory and complex nature – sinister yet humorous, sacred yet profane, theatrical yet real. He observed a darker side to Naples, related not only to its infamous corruption and criminality but also to the city’s inherent pagan character. Whilst seeing Naples as a tough, noisy and anarchic city he also finds beauty and a particular light-heartedness which, he argues, can be ‘discovered in the detail rather than the overview.’
‘Siren City: Photographs by Johnnie Shand Kydd’ runs until 12 September 2010. All exhibition materials have been created by TheFrameworks.
Following the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art’s recent Enjoy England Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Scheme (VAQAS) annual assessment, the gallery’s website designed and built by TheFrameworks was highly commended.
VisitEngland’s assessor praised the layout and navigation of the site, the homepage Twitter integration and the comprehensive information presented on current, future and past exhibitions. The assessor was so impressed that she now uses Estorick’s website as a case study for other attractions on how to design a successful website.
VAQAS was launched nationally in 2001. It is a consumer focused quality assessment service for all types of visitor attractions. It helps to identify strengths of an attraction and highlights development areas based on industry examples. A wide range of attractions of all sizes, both large and small, throughout England have benefited from participation in the service.
The new exhibition at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is ‘Workshop Missoni: Daring to be Different’.
Missoni is one of the leading and most distinctive fashion houses in the world. The Missoni style has evolved out of a long-standing collaboration between the husband and wife team of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni. In the late 1940s, Ottavio Missoni established a workshop producing jersey tracksuits that were sported by the Italian Athletic Team at the 1948 London Olympics, where Ottavio himself qualified for the final of the 400m hurdle race.
While in London he met Rosita Jelmini, the granddaughter of a family of shawl and ladieswear manufacturers from Varese, in northern Italy. After marrying in 1953 they began making items of knitwear in a small workshop in the basement of their first home in Gallarate before moving, in the late 1960s, to the company’s present site in Sumirago with its magnificent views of the Monte Rosa mountains. Through the years, Ottavio and Rosita’s path has been followed by their children Vittorio, Angela and Luca, who today continue to keep alive the spirit of the Missoni style all over the world.
The Missonis’ designs were inspired both by the natural environment and by their own collection of art from Europe’s Modernist era including the work of Tancredi, Sonia Delaunay, Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini, whose dynamic images of dancers reveal close parallels with the geometric patterns of Missoni fabrics. This is clearly illustrated in their designs for the catwalk – the exhibition includes over twenty outfits spanning the first forty years of their fashion output – and their ‘extra-curricular’ creative activities such as Ottavio’s works of collage and patchwork, examples of which are also on view.
Workshop Missoni runs from 1 July to 20 September 2009. All exhibition materials have been created by TheFrameworks.
