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Exhibitions

John Michael Wright, Portrait of Mrs Salesbury with her Grandchildren Edward and Elizabeth bagot (1675-6)

Family Matters: The Family in British Art

15 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
Norwich Castle

Events

Tony Cragg, 'Britain Seen from the North,'1981

The Great British Art Debate Conference

Saturday 3 December 2011, 10.00–18.00
Tate Britain

Great British Art Debate Twitter

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News just in from @LaingArtGallery. Family Portrait Competition deadline now extended to 1st March. Extra time to perfect those pics!

@LaingArtGallery - Super, thanks for the info. Will let all our budding photographers know! :-)

Only 7 days left to enter the Family Portrait Competition @LaingArtGallery. Send your lovely entries in asap! http://t.co/FcLGXzPe

@LON_unlike Looking forward to hearing from you.

Fantastic podcast giving a taste of the Family Matters exhibition. Check it out. http://t.co/0oE7Pt0F

Has your brain checked out for Christmas? Feed it with art! #johnmartin walkaround with @martinmyrone http://t.co/cqW7gmLH

Uploading all of the #GBAD11 conference today so you can catch up if you missed it. :) @iainirving I think you wanted to see it?

MT @neatpr #JohnMartin exhibition @Tate was amazing & should be added to everyone's to do list this Xmas! Surprise show inside was stunning.

RT @RosieCardiff: .@h4nchan is leaving Tate! Do you blog? Can you tweet? @GBArtDebate needs you! 2 days a week Jan-Apr. Email gbartdebat ...

A huge weekend for us! Thanks to everyone who followed the webcast of #gbad11. We'll add your thoughts to http://t.co/cVrxntpV!

We're wrapping up now, so many thanks for watching, tweeting and getting involved. :) #gbad11

#gbad11 RT @evanraskob: @Tate What's with the need to rank art on a linear scale from bad to good? You can't objectively rank provocation

Is having shocking and spectacular art in our galleries a bad thing? #gbad11 @martinmyrone

Coming back to @sharonheal's point about the debate being removed from the common understanding of (non) museumgoers. #gbad11

We're on to questions now and straight away a comment via twitter form @phototory about subjectivity and greatness. #gbad11

RT @lauraweill: @GBartdebate finally talking about audiences!!! The panel need to think more about the people outside of the room #gbad11

GBAD in part is about nationhood, thru art. RT @impressionist6 then we would be debating the notion of Nationhood, GBAD better name #gbad11

RT @michelnewel: There are as many 'Britishness-es' as there are artists ~audience member #gbad11

The @gbartdebate exhibitions have made visible works which were not seen previously. #gbad11

We were going to call it Imagine a Nation instead of @gbartdebate. What do you think about that other name? Better? #gbad11

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