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  • Interview

Inside the mind of Ayurvedic Man’s curator, Bárbara Rodriguez Muñoz

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

  • Article

A freezer full of breastmilk

When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.

  • Article

This is a MOOD

Adults might sometimes dismiss teenagers’ ‘moodiness’, but adolescence is a time of complex shifts in brain and body, which are intricately bound up with fluctuating feelings.

  • Photo story

Generation portraits

Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

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Images

  • Life size diorama of a birth-scene, photograph.
  • Life size diorama of a birth-scene, photograph.
  • Birth scene: mother in bed with baby in cot
  • Child birth scene, Greco-Roman, 1stC-4thC
  • The muses with a birth scene below. Etching by L.P. Boitard.
  • 4 miniatures: bedside care and studies of the afflicted.
  • Scipion Mercurio, La commare o
  • J Ruff, De conceptu et generatione hominis,
  • Memorial of European events from the year 1721. Engraving, c. 1722.
  • The birth of John the Baptist. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Carracci.
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