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The founder of the controversial, soon-to-open Jack the Ripper Museum — initially presented as a museum that celebrates women in London's East End — is defending his vision of it as a site to explore local women's history and stories.
Interview
Early last March, London’s Conservative mayor Boris Johnson unveiled Hans Haacke’s “Gift Horse,” the tenth commission installed on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth.
In Brief
On Sunday, masked men entered the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, causing panic and a "stampede," as the London Evening Standard reported.
Art
At the same time that they cast her to the margins of society, Victorian England was obsessed with the "fallen woman," who had lost her virtue to sex, alcohol, or some other vice.
Art
At the same time that they cast her to the margins of society, Victorian England was obsessed with the "fallen woman," who had lost her virtue to sex, alcohol, or some other vice.
News
Activist art collective Liberate Tate completed a 25-hour unsanctioned performance inside Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall on Sunday, urging the institution to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, one of the world's largest oil companies.
Art
In 1974, French writer Georges Perec's "An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris" is part of the inspiration behind Kyle McDonald's new online interactive Exhausting a Crowd.
Art
To show animals of distant locales to the public in centuries before photography, artists were sometimes enlisted to recreate exotic fauna through secondhand descriptions or some scrap of skin or skeleton.
Art
Over a century later, the voices of those taking refuge in the tomb-like beds of a Victorian homeless shelter are difficult to resuscitate, their experiences only echoed in the recordings of outsiders.
Art
The Stanford Literary Lab has plotted quotes from over 700 19th-century authors who mentioned locations in London in order to compose concentrations of dread or happiness.
News
In 2013, UNESCO asked the British Museum to let it mediate a deal between it and the government of Greece, which has been calling for the return of the Elgin Marbles with ever-growing fervor for the past 30 years.
Art
LONDON — Looking back at history, one encounters certain individuals who reflect the changing attitudes, social values, or cultural trends of their times, while certain others seem to define and embody them; they’re the ones who become the symbols of the spirit of an age.