Art
Hard Graft Reminds Us That Health Is Political
A stellar curation of stirring contemporary works and archival material expose the links between labor and health. The show calls, in turn, for a bit of visitor effort.
Wellcome Collection
Art
A Romp Through the History of Beauty
Asking the question of how beauty is sold or how beauty trends change would be more effective in The Cult of Beauty than aiming for both and answering neither.
News
London Museum Axes 15-Year-Old "Racist” Exhibition
The Wellcome Collection closed the long-term exhibition Medicine Man for concerns of “racism, sexism, and ableism.”
Art
The Politics of the Air We Breathe
Inspired by Charles Babbage’s idea of air as “atmospheric memory,” In the Air considers air as a common space that belongs to and affects the whole of humanity.
Art
Two Artists Stare Into the Face of Death
In Misbehaving Bodies, Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery’s works consider the protracted degeneration of the body.
Art
Artists and Scientists Concoct Immersive Projects at the Wellcome
The Wellcome Collection in London introduces four mixed-media installations in an immersive, collaborative show between artists and scientists.
Art
Visitors Were Invited to Curate a Museum of Modern Nature and Here’s What Sprouted
The Wellcome Collection's Museum of Modern Nature is a crowdsourced reflection on our personal relationships to the natural world in the 21st century.
Books
A Visual Record of Four Centuries of Asylum Care
Mike Jay's book This Way Madness Lies explores society’s approach to mental illness over centuries.
Art
The Belgian Town Where the Mentally Ill Are Part of the Community
The treatment of mental illness has often involved removing patients from society and placing them in their own institutions.
Art
India’s Scientific and Metaphysical Views of Medicine in Objects
The medical culture of India is perhaps among the world's most complex, integrating the scientific and metaphysical realms.
Art
Tibet's Secret Temple: The Long-Hidden Tantric Murals of Lukhang Palace
On an island in a pond behind the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet sits the Lukhang Temple, or "Temple to the Serpent Spirits," a secret meditation space created by the Dalai Lama in the 17th century.
Art
Drunken Ancients and Mummy Restoration: The Best GIFs from #MusGIF Day
Culture Themes, the same group behind #AskACuratorDay, has organized yet another fun way for museums to engage the public with objects in their collections.