Hassan Vawda

What might a spiritual & consciously religious art museum look like today?

My essay In Search of God through Artists is out now for Kettle’s Yard, @universitypress.cambridge.org
explored the spiritual motivations & social conditions behind Jim & Helen Ede’s founding vision: modern art as a pathway to divinity - kettles-yard-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2025...

Sunday - Easter in Ukraine and Gaza; 30 years of Father Ted - BBC Sounds A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week

BBC 4 Sunday on Easter Sunday - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Moving narration by a member of a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza - in the hopelessness in suffering that they witness around them under siege, and the hope in faith they find - buoyed by the daily prayers with the now late Pope Francis

Flourishing Fritillaria imperials aka ‘William Rex’ propagated from @nationaltrust.org.uk Nymans

What does 100 years of South Asian artists in Britain look like? | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.

What does 100 years of South Asian artists in Britain look like?

Find out in this new story by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/NvRvrYc

'Painting' by Prafulla Mohanti © the artist. 📷 University of Chichester, Otter Gallery

Faith, heritage and negative space: an interview with Saleem Arif Quadri | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.

Across five decades, Saleem Arif Quadri has been making work that draws on the natural world and which explores the idea of spiritual journeys.

Read more in this interview by @hassanvawda.bsky.social 👉 https://buff.ly/4bf6owu

© the artist. 📷 @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social

Three in five small UK museums and galleries fear closure amid declining revenue, new research suggests The survey of independent cultural attractions found that three quarters of respondents were concerned for the future of the wider sector

Three in five small UK museums and galleries fear closure amid declining revenue, new research suggests via @theartnewspaper.bsky.social www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/21/t...

Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker at Whitechapel Gallery. On til 4 May 2025

Marika Sherwood with Hakim Adi

RIP to Dr. Marika Sherwood: a huge inspiration among historians and activists, and a founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association. Without her tireless contributions over the past few decades, the field of Black British History would look very different today. We owe her so much 🖤✊🏽

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Pink glow over Chingford fields in early 20th century. A warm sunset to banish Blue Monday! 🌞

Sun flushed Kettle’s Yard house, Cambridge

medium.com/@hassanevawd... - a reflection on the narratives of Muslims in Britain through the 1914 publication, 'Islam and the Muslim Prayer', one of the earliest efforts to explain and guide the act of Islamic prayer to a native British audience. #IslaminBritain #BritishMuslims

From ‘The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence’ at the V&A

Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

Fine balance and awareness are needed with these creative health narratives to avoid essential arts funding being redirected to supplement the stretched health and care services. It should be health and care budgets being invested into the creative sector...#CreativeHealth

YouTube video by TrashDistrict Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (Original Soundtrack by Philip Glass)

the Philip Glass score is tremendous - www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rB...

Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections "Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections" published on 23 Dec 2024 by Brill.

Adding to my to read list - “Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections:The (Un)Making of Indonesian Islam in the Netherlands”

Series:
Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, Volume: 22
- brill.com/display/titl...

Saw Paul Shrader’s 1985 ‘Mishima: a life in four chapters’ @princecharlescinema.com - great film - and so glad to see cinephile hubs like Prince Charles Cinema packed on a Sunday night screening for a film like this

#HappyBirthdayNationalTrust

I value @nationaltrust.bsky.social deeply - a happy 130th birthday- here are my favourite National Trust sites so far:
Powis Castle and Garden
Great Coxwell Barn
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
575 Wandsworth Road

Happy birthday to us! 130 today and still going strong 💪

A big thank you to everyone who is celebrating with us ♥️

A&C Journal issue 120 — Art + Christianity Features Letter from Stockholm Daniel A Siedell Memories and lives Alice Kinghorn Exhibition reviews Delcy Morelos: Profundis by Michael Kurtz Portia Zvavahera: Zvakazarurwa by Rachel Coombes...

Art+Christianity Journal Issue 120 out now - includes my review of the exhibition ‘William Morris and Art from the Islamic World’ currently on at William Morris Gallery + more - artandchristianity.org/shop-listing...

In a clearing at the edge of a village, a wedding celebration is taking place. The bride is seated at the table in the upper right, before a cloth of honour. Dressed in a traditional square-necked black wedding dress, she surveys the platter of coins before her while a notary keeps record. In the foreground the guests dance, drink and embrace each other enthusiastically.

🥁 Our most popular story of the year is...

'Bruegel or Brueghel? The painting dynasty explained' by Adam Wattam

Have a read 👉 https://buff.ly/3BCO7fo

📷 @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social

Major Scottish arts venues report large deficits - Arts Professional Two major Scottish arts venues have reported large deficits for the last financial year amid uncertainty over their future level of funding from Creative Scotland. Dundee Contemporary Arts ran at a lo...

'Aberdeen Performing Arts and Dundee Contemporary Arts both post losses while director of National Galleries of Scotland says organisation is facing possible permanent closure of one of its buildings' - www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/major-s... @artsprofessional.co.uk

We need open dialogue about belief and religion - Museums Association Heritage sector is lagging behind others, says Hassan Vawda

An op-ed on my motivations and emerging insights from my AHRC supported PhD with Tate and @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social that looks at religion and belief within modern art museums in Britain - www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... @museumsassociation.org