Christopher Griffin

Art historian and editor. Convenor, Research Programmes and Publications @Tate / @TateResearch. Views my own. He/him.

[Christopher Griffin @cjpgriffin]

@smallandcross Good point! I think it should be ‘football cometh’, right?

[Giovanni Tiso @gtiso]

New rule: every time someone tweets "it's coming home", one artifact from the British Museum shall be return to the place it was stolen.

[Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton @AnjalieDC]

ART MUSEUM & GALLERY PEEPS! There are 2 further workshops in the #DecolonisingArtsInstitute x @ContempArtSoc Doing the Work series. Details 👇🏾

[Towards a National Collection @nat_collection]

Our Provisional Semantics (@TateResearch) project is conducting a mapping exercise into the period 2009-2019 and 2020-21. The focus is language and cataloguing around #race, #ethnicity and #nationality, #diversity, #decolonisation or #inclusion.

🔗: https://t.co/eCfxHFXxGM

[MAMMA @mamma_group]

Join us for the final panel of the online seminar 'Crucibles, Vectors, Catalysts: Envisioning the Modern City' - March the 9th at 3 pm London time, 4 pm Casablanca time !

Image: Wooden mural by Mohamed Melehi, Faculty of Medecine, 1972–78 © Cabinet Faraoui et de Mazières

[Holly Casio @HollyCasio]

Full of rage for everyone at the National Art Library. 2/3s of library staff to lose jobs, extended closure of reading rooms, total disregard for the collections + the impact this will have on all other public art libraries. Please sign the petition here: https://t.co/LTY4DFOFTx

[Tate Research @TateResearch]

All four sessions of 'Decolonising British Art' are now available to watch online - a British Art Network seminar series, led by the @UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, on Decentering, Resituating and Reviewing Artworks and Collections
https://t.co/eyClcoyYgS

[Christopher Griffin @cjpgriffin]

@AnnaArabindan @ArtHxProject Hello Anna!! 💙 Sounds like a fab project
And very happy to follow it, in every sense! Would love to find out more about it and see if there are ways I can support this important research

[Museums Association @MuseumsAssoc]

In response to yesterday's DCMS meeting on contested heritage, we are:

✅ Defending the arm's-length principle
✅ Standing by colleagues working on decolonisation
✅ Standing up against the climate of fear affecting museum staff

Read our statement 👉 https://t.co/fGAUiAPBfQ

[Christopher Griffin @cjpgriffin]

@MirandaKaufmann @museum_detox I imagine it is...which begs the question who gets to see it? Is it even FOR them? I propose it’s “taken down” and “contextualised properly” lol

[Christopher Griffin @cjpgriffin]

CANNOT believe Oliver Dowden has a Lubaina Himid painting in his office! 😱 Fronting the work of a Black woman - who until recently had been violently ignored, even erased from histories of British art - for this tweet!? Really?

[Oliver Dowden @OliverDowden]

Very productive conversation about protecting heritage for future generations

Agreed to jointly set up a working group & produce guidelines to put the govt's retain and explain policy into practice, so that more people can engage with our shared past

[Art History @AAH_Journal]

FREE TO DOWNLOAD: 'Binding Trauma', the latest @AAH_Journal editorial by #DorothyPrice considers #PublicSculpture and #ArtHistory; to learn more, visit https://t.co/ZHCNsSifKX

[Subhadra Das @littlegaudy]

I worked myself into the ground last autumn doing talks about decolonising museums and some of you said you were inspired to make a change. Your Black and brown museum colleagues need you now. However small you think it is, please do something about this:

[Museum Detox @museum_detox]

This meeting should be made public because it is tax-payer funded. We all have the right to know what’s being said behind closed doors about everyone’s heritage.

Where is the transparency? Why the secrecy around content, or who's been invited to the table?

[Dorothy Price 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @ProfDorrothy]

My reflections on public sculpture and Art History after the toppling of #Colston & #BlackLivesMatter published today, available online for @AAH_Journal ‘Binding Trauma’

[Christopher Griffin @cjpgriffin]

@robertjsutton Omg! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 I need to pay attention to/get involved in city of culture stuff...

[Towards a National Collection @nat_collection]

Our Provisional Semantics (@TateResearch) project is conducting a mapping exercise into the period 2009-2019 and 2020-21. The focus is language and cataloguing around #race, #ethnicity and #nationality, #diversity, #decolonisation or #inclusion.

🔗: https://t.co/eCfxHFXxGM

[Raze Collective @Razecollective]

🔈 London Queer Nightlife Research Independent Consultant - Call for Proposals. @andwhatfest @fringefilmfest @cocoabuttershow @ace_national We are looking for proposals from a freelance consultant to deliver a piece of research into the effects of Covid-19 on LGBTQIA+ night life.