Tag: culture
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Treasures of Ukraine – book review
This book chronicles Ukraine’s rich cultural heritage even as the war with Russia threatens the very existence of its collections and the buildings that hold them, with 21 museums already damaged
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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser
The V&A throws film, photography, prints, fashion, art and crockery into the mix to bring the origin story of Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to life, and explore its enduring impact on visual culture.
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Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas
This exhibition documents the hardships faced by Indigenous people from across the Americas as a result of climate and environmental changes – and should be a salutary tale to us all
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Matheus Parizi – interview: ‘Artists are compelled more than ever to make work about what is happening in the street. Art has to be political.’
Parizi talks about the current right-wing climate in Brazil, cuts to funding for the arts, and his new short film First Act, which he made as a direct response to the political events in his country
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Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design
No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leonardo da Vinci. Only a handful of paintings remain, some unfinished, some of disputed attribution, and at least one of the most…
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The Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures
The British Museum, London, 17 April-7 September 2003
