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Reviews

Screen legend | Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema

This exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two) has stunning displays on the life and work of a cinematic great

Sailing into the future | The Box, Plymouth

A museum facelift that has revitalised cultural provision in the port city

Digital reviews

Our pick of the latest digital content from museums and galleries

On my bookshelf

Always Time for Coffee, by Kate Minchin

Books | The Museum of Mankind

A sometimes uncomfortable read of cultural attitudes to ethnographic collections and stories

Sea change | Brightlingsea Museum, Essex

A reimagined venue that has overcome major challenges to tell the story of a maritime community

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