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Issue 171: Art and Humour , Issue 171: Museums and Galleries Month

  • Art and Humour, Museums and Galleries Month

    02 Jun 2008

    Organisations outside the arts are trying new ways of recruiting, training and retaining excellent staff, as Pam Henderson helps us to discover.

    Recruitment is the foundation of effective people management – if you don’t appoint well to get the right person in the right job, then allocating further resources such as training, reward schemes and energy from managers is just throwing good money after bad. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development estimates that the potential financial cost of getting it wrong ranges from £5,000 to £50,000, depending on the seniority of the post and the decisions the post holder might be... more

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    Exploring the use of humour in art can be a serious business, as Mami Kataoka explains.

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    Humour is everywhere in art, points out Marie Brennan, and perhaps it deserves more respect than we give it.

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    A wide-ranging creative approach provided the context for a multi-faceted exploration of specific scientific concept, writes Liz Whitehead

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    International street art can generate its own unexpected comedy ? from its audience, as Ralph Oswick reveals.

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    Creating a relaxed and intimate experience across four galleries proved a good way to reach beyond the culture