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A Ham-Fisted Fun Vendor: Rare Jon Pertwee Video Resurfaces

A Ham-Fisted Fun Vendor: Rare Jon Pertwee Video Resurfaces (#DoctorWho fans tread carefully)

Online Doctor Who was wracked with discord last week, when the TV Museum posted a 1981 corporate video for an Italian white goods retailer. In it, Jon Pertwee — in the Third Doctor’s customary frilly shirt and cloak — beams down from the ‘Planet Zanussi’ with vital information for its dealers on the company’s latest promotion. So far, so turgid.

Pertwee is joined by David Tate (Eddie the…

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TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television, Maeve Connolly

TV Museum takes as its subject the complex and shifting relationship between television and contemporary art. Informed by theories and histories of art and media since the 1950s, this book charts the changing status of television as cultural form, object of critique, and site of artistic invention. Through close readings of artworks, exhibitions, and institutional practices in diverse cultural and political contexts, Connolly demonstrates television’s continued importance for contemporary artists and curators seeking to question the formation and future of the public sphere. Read more on the LUX website