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- Interview
- Interview
Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies
| Gwendolyn SmithThomas S G Farnetti
Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.
- Article
- Article
The quest to breed gifted children
| Anna Faherty
If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?
- Article
- Article
Pain, politics and the power of photography
| Giulia Smith
Art historian Giulia Smith explains what she most admires in the work of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, and how their approach makes illness political.
- Article
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
| Ken Hollings
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Article
- Article
Drugs in Victorian Britain
| Louise Crane
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?