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How homesickness inspires art

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

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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

  • 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.

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The psychology of Ouija

Explore the science behind table tilting and Ouija boards, and discover how the unscrupulous still make money from exploiting the ‘ideomotor’ effect.

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  • Royal West India Mail Steamer 'Tyne'. Dr. Acland - a passenger wrote a long letter to the 'Oxford Herald' about this disaster.
  • A sunflower, a symbol of bringing life back by giving blood; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. January 1994.
  • A woman and a girl having an ear and a nose pierced, a boy receiving stitches on his arm and a man having his hair cut, another a shave; a warning about the dangers of using unsterilized equipment and contracting the HIV virus by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca 1997.
  • Four men injecting themselves with drugs; a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and contracting HIV by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca.1997.
  • A foetus in the womb of a woman and a nurse delivering the baby below representing a warning about the dangers of passing on HIV through pregnancy by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca 1997.
  • A cricketer raising his bat as if to defeat AIDS representing an advertisement for Nirodh condoms ; a safe-sex advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1999.
  • Singapore: three native people known as "klings", and one "dhirzie" or tailor. Photographs by J. Taylor, c. 1880.
  • A pot, a two-headed multi-legged creature and smaller symbols relating to ways in which AIDS is not transmitted including mosquitoes, hands shaking and a hospital bed; an advertisement issued by the Indian Committee of Youth Organizations. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A two-headed multi-legged creature above a a shattered pot with emanating rays with Hindi lettering relating to the shattering effects of AIDS; an advertisement by the Indian Committee of Youth Organizations. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A couple just married outside a church, a butterfly emblem symbolising a Hindu wedding, and a mosque with a prayer book and two bearded men with the warning of no sex before or outside marriage; an AIDS prevention advertisement for families by GAP-SIRMCE. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
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