Reviews

Reel-life pioneer | Robert Paul: The Forgotten Showman

This exuberant show at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, puts the camera lights on a forgotten inventor

Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London

Caroline Ikin gets immersed in this forest of art, which coaxes visitors to examine their complex relationship with nature

William and Evelyn De Morgan: ‘Two of the Rarest Spirits of the Age’, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

The gallery's first post-Covid show is a riveting exploration of one of art's great power couples, says Jamie Taylor

Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon, Barnstaple

Even a modest extension can help modernise a 19th-century museum, says Peter Mason

On my bookshelf

The New Museology, by Peter Vergo, demonstrates how far museums have come

Books | Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker

The New York curator's thinking on feminism, power and museums still resonates after almost 50 years, says Verity Smith

Digital reviews

Online content was the only game in town during lockdown, but which museums did it best?

Books | Art in Science Museums: Towards a Post-Disciplinary Approach

This book on the evolving relationship between the arts and the sciences should be a call to arms for greater collaboration

CultureLab – Don’t Believe the Stereotype, Ulster Museum, Belfast

This experimental exhibition challenges sectarian stereotypes in an attempt to understand identity in Northern Ireland, says Oonagh Murphy

Museum of Neoliberalism, London

Ellie Miles struggles to distinguish between the real and the unreal in a museum that eschews neutrality in its parodies of political and commercial messaging

Books | Studio Lives. Architect, Art and Artist in 20th-Century Britain

Cicely Robinson on a book that explores the evolution of studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940

Catalogue | Linderism

This book uses density and layering to represent the richness of the artist Linder’s practice