Stories
- Article
Performance art, frozen in time
For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.
- Article
The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
- Article
The fine line between collecting and hoarding
Being ‘a collector’ is often celebrated but being labelled ‘a hoarder’ can be humiliating, at best. Georgie Evans asks what makes one set of objects a collection and another a hoard.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Art in Madness - Early Patient Artwork
Date: 1843-c.1867Reference: DGH1/7/3/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Exhibitions and Shows
Date: 2013-2019Reference: ES- Books
The Inner eye : [an exhibition of work made in psychiatric hospitals] 15 January - 19 February 1978, Museum of Modern Art Oxford.
Date: 1978- Books
Louis Chéron (Paris, 1655 - Londres, 1725) : l'ambition du dessin parfait / François Marandet.
Marandet, FrançoisDate: [2021]- Books
Feast & fast : the art of food in Europe, 1500 - 1800 / edited by Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu.
Date: 2019