Ed Vaizey

One of my onerous duties as Shadow Arts Spokesman is to visit fantastic arts venues run by amazing people.  To this list I can now add MAO.  Modern Art, Oxford, formerly the Museum of Modern Art Oxford is on the site of a former brewery in Pembroke Street.  I last visited twenty years ago, when I was a student.  It’s been opened up and revamped, and has a beautiful installation by Daniel Buren there at the moment.  Like all arts organisations, it struggles for funds.  Its director Andrew Nairne (he who revamped MAO) is incredibly enthusiastic, and brimming with ideas.  It was a real pleasure to spend an hour with him in MAO’s cafe - even if a member of the public told us to be quiet because Andrew was getting so carried away!

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