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Gail Tolley looks at homesickness through the eyes of three contemporary artists and finds powerful new themes of identity and connection.

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.

Wellcome Collection's major new exhibition looks at one of the most complex entities in the universe.

'Making Nature: How we see animals' brings together over 100 objects from literature, film, taxidermy and photography.

Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.

Traditional theatre audio-description often lets down artists and audiences. But, done well, it has the potential to be a force for creativity as well as accessibility.

In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.

Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.

Here are seven ways to sidestep doing as you’re told in a game. But strangely, they seem to be as much a part of playing as the game itself.

‘Love Letters to a Liveable Future’ takes the challenge of the climate crisis and offers the dream space to imagine how we would like our world to be different: one that foregrounds the health, wellbeing and future of all living creatures.

In May 2022, Wellcome Collection opens ‘In the Air’, a new exhibition exploring our relationship with air and what it tells us about the health of our planet.

Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

Wayne McGregor is well known for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations. .

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.