Mary Gregory

Jan 12, 2025 | womanaroundtown.com | Mary Gregory

When New Year’s Eve coverage featured reporters holding up bananas duct-taped to boards, I knew the story of Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” still had legs. The artwork first made headlines in 2019, when Cattelan took a plain banana and taped it to the wall of the Perrotin gallery booth at Art Basel Miami. Fair goers laughed, fawned, and took and posted innumerable selfies in front of the fruit/wall conceptual work.

Dec 11, 2024 | womanaroundtown.com | Mary Gregory

Here are ten books perfect for you or those on your gift list interested in art and artists – and they’re all by and about women. Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art by Ann Temkin and Romy Silver-KohnWith fourteen chapters about pioneering women at MoMA, written by fourteen of the most important women writing about art, this book is about a dream team, chronicled by a dream team.

Nov 28, 2024 | blog.ons.gov.uk | Mary Gregory

ONS is transforming the way it produces international migration statistics. It has done so against the backdrop of significant change in the UK and abroad. Here Mary Gregory describes how ONS continues to understand more, not only about new data sources, but also changing behaviours of migrants and how that affects the estimates. Since 2021, long-term international migration to the UK has been at unprecedented levels.

Sep 30, 2024 | blog.ons.gov.uk | Mary Gregory

Following a collaboration with the BBC and Micro:bit Foundation ONS Director, Mary Gregory, shares how the results of a playground survey are only the start of the journey for the next generation of budding data scientists. Back in February, I had the privilege of sharing an exciting partnership between the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the BBC, and the Micro:bit Foundation centred around a project that has captured the imagination of young minds across the UK.

Sep 12, 2024 | blog.ons.gov.uk | Mary Gregory

We are today sharing plans for our work to continuously improve the information available on gender identity statistics. This follows our request to reclassify our Census 2021 gender identity estimates to official statistics in development, which better reflects our developing understanding of measuring this complex and important topic. Here, Mary Gregory outlines what we are doing to support use of the existing gender identity data and our plans to review the standards for future data collection.