Tiffany Jenkins is exploring the crisis of cultural authority in museum institutions, and the cultural meanings of dead bodies, at the University of Kent at Canterbury, in the school of social sciences. She is also the arts and society director of the Institute of Ideas and you can read her blog here: tiffanyjenkinsinfo.wordpress.com/

Thrills from arts TV

We have populist programming which isn’t popular, arts programming that is scared of art. What happened? Wyver demonstrates this shift isn’t simply down to a new generation or a major change of personnel. Many controllers today were involved in good TV twenty years ago. Something more profound has taken place.