In this interview, Jane Alison, Head of Visual Arts at the Barbican Centre, London, tells Sria Chatterjee, Head of Research and Learning at the PMC, about curating the major exhibition Postwar Modern (3 March – 26 June). The PMC is supporting a one-day conference, taking place this June at the Barbican, that will consider how art making and the art world were remade after the Second World War. This summer, the PMC’s own Summer Research Seminars will also have the theme “Liquid Crystal Concrete: The Arts in Postwar Britain 1945–65”.
Interview Curating Postwar
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