The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate Museums in the 21st Century

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Directors of the Hermitage, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the National Gallery, Singapore explain how they are dealing both with the challenge of Covid-19 and the greater accountability demanded by worldwide social justice movements. Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion organised in collaboration with Frieze Masters and Frieze London, talking to: Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg Kaywin Feldman, Director of the National Gallery of Art Washington DC Chong Siak Ching, CEO of the National Gallery of Singapore. Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find previous discussions recorded with Frieze on the Free Thinking website and available to download as BBC Arts & Ideas podcasts. And this episode is part of the #MuseumPassion series of programmes being broadcast by the BBC in early October 2020. Michael Govan, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA, Sabine Haag, Director, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum in the Frieze Debate 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000knp Laurence des Cars from the Musee d’Orsay, Kennie Ting from Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, and Philip Tinari from UCCA Beijing in the 2019 Frieze Debate https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009kvp Michael Govan in a Frieze Masters extended interview 2019 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000944l And there's a Free Thinking playlist of discussions about the visual artists and photographers including Michael Rakowitz, Simon Schama, Tacita Dean, Aura Satz, Chantal Joffe, Mika Ninagawa, Don McCullin and David Bailey https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p026wnjl