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
A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Books
The face of medicine : visualising medical masculinities in late nineteenth-century Paris / Mary Hunter.
Hunter, Mary, ProfessorDate: 2016- Books
Feast & fast : the art of food in Europe, 1500 - 1800 / edited by Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu.
Date: 2019- Books
India by design : colonial history and cultural display / Saloni Mathur.
Mathur, SaloniDate: [2007]- Books
Victorian scientific naturalism : community, identity, continuity / edited by Gowan Dawson and Bernard Lightman.
Date: [2014]- Books
Ghost in the shell : photography and the human soul, 1850-2000 : essays on camera portraiture / Robert A. Sobieszek.
Sobieszek, Robert A., 1943-2005.Date: [1999], ©1999