On Thursday 4 March at 6pm (GMT), Apollo and the Warburg Institute present ‘Cinema and the Museum’, in its ‘Museums of the Mind’ discussion series. The artist John Akomfrah, the critic and screenwriter Emilie Bickerton and Deborah N. Landis, director of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design at UCLA, will be in conversation with Fatema Ahmed, deputy editor of Apollo.
Over the course of a year in which many museums have been closed for months, it has become clear that they continue to give us much to think about even when we cannot visit them.
Apollo, in partnership with the Warburg Institute, presents ‘Museums of the Mind’ – a series of discussions about how museums reflect and refract art forms and other fields that may not traditionally have been considered their preserve. What happens when poetry, cinema or dance enter a museum? How do these encounters ask us to reimagine both the museum and the discipline on display?