Meet the Curator: Mat Bancroft
Meet Manchester’s British Pop Archive curator Mat Bancroft as he talks about his professional practice and shares insight into his work as well as his view of exhibitions into the future.
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Fresh, Fly and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style celebrated at NY’s MFIT with a dedicated exhibition
Opening in New York on February 8th 2023 at The Museum at FIT (MFIT) Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition to explore hip hop’s revolutionary and influential fashion style. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, the exhibition examines its relationship to fashion through over 100 garments and accessories capturing pivotal moments in hip hop fashion’s evolution.
The Grateful Dead Archive Online is a fully digital, open-source trip
The Grateful Dead Archive is one of the most significant popular culture collections of the 20th Century. Preserved at University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) since 2009, its web section (the GDAO) grew up to over 45K digitised items uploaded by UCSC and the Dead’s devoted community of fans.
Turn It Up: The power of music opens at Manchester’s SIM
MAG_BTM discusses Manchester's Sience and Industry Museum’s latest exhibtion Turn It Up: The power of music with SIM Curator of Exhibitions, Dr Steven Leech
Curator’s Corner : Linda Lloyd Jones
Curator's Corner : Linda Lloyd Jones talks about her experience of putting block buster music exhibitions at London's V&A and the role of technology in the future
Manchester’s British Pop Archive : A Serious Look at Pop Culture
Launched in April 2022, Manchester’s British Pop Archive aims to build the first national archive fully dedicated to British pop culture and to encourage people to understand its rich cultural value. [magbtm] interviewed BPA’s curator Mat Bancroft.
Celebrating 2 Tone. Summer reading and viewing from Coventry, UK
From exhibitions to TV documentaries and a great new book about Coventry fanzines, we’re bringing you a step closer to the Midlands by way of Jamaica music movement.
Grime Stories at the Museum of London
The Museum of London presents Grime Stories: from the corner to the mainstream, a new display honouring the music, people and places central to the grime scene and its roots in east London.
Sir Peter Blake’s homage to the Royal Albert Hall
Available for purchase on the MAG Store - Supporting and celebrating the Royal Albert Hall and its 150-years strong history, this exclusive limited edition print by Peter Blake brings together all the great personalities that appeared at the venue.
An impressive archive from man who scored half a century of film
Creating some of the most recognisable overtures in the history of cinema, Elmer Bernstein paved the way for composers on screen.
How a Science Museum ended up with the history of Factory Records
Jan Hicks, curator & archives manager at Manchester's Science and Industry Museum discusses the past, present and future of their Factory Records collection.
Woody Guthrie exhibition goes virtual
Made up of an extraordinary selection of archival material, 'People are the Song' tells the story of this great American writer & troubadour
Direct from Graceland: Inside Australia’s new Elvis Exhibition
Curator Lauren Ellis on gaining exclusive access to Graceland’s archives
How a Sussex museum were able to celebrate the legacy of Dame Vera Lynn
An exhibition brings together previously unseen ephemera and works from the force’s sweetheart near her home in East Sussex. Director of Ditchling Museum, Steph Fuller, walks us through the show.
Looking into one of the deepest digital music archives of historical photography
MAG_BTM steps behind the scenes of the stock photo behemoth with Julian Ridgway, Senior Photo Editor at Getty Images
The long journey of mapping black British music
The director of the Black Music Research Unit, Mykaell Riley, on bringing Black British music center stage
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop exhibited in Seattle’s MoPOP
A single image can define a moment, creating an instant icon.
Assembling archives: The Royal Albert Hall
LIz Harper explains her journey leading to the 150th anniversary celebrations
Meet the archive : The Internet Archive
A non-profit library with alot of free music content, including books, movies, music tracks and more. MAG/BTM explores inside.
Did you grow up in Coventry, UK? Call out from the Museum of Youth Culture
Did you grow up in Coventry UK? In celebration the team at MOYC share some of their favorite images from their growing archive.
In conversation with Jon Swinstead, head of the Museum of Youth Culture
Jon Swinstead talks about how the world's most comprehensive free collection of content on young people came together and its visions for the future