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Reviews

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

On my bookshelf | Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums

This book on the importance of displaying atrocity correctly has left a lasting impression, says Eleanor Jones

Theaster Gates: Amalgam, Tate Liverpool

The American artist’s show is inspired by the history of a tiny, racially mixed island. By Chiedza Mhondoro

Tyrannosaurs, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Mary Stones is captivated by a theatrical and informative show

Book review | A Museum Miscellany, by Claire Cock-Starkey

This book will probably sell well in museum gift shops, but would have benefited from a less traditional view of the sector

Portraying Pregnancy: from Holbein to Social Media, Foundling Museum, London

Emma Shepley on the great expectations that this show aims to reveal

Digital reviews

From image-sharing platforms to Instagram artists, we review the latest digital content from the cultural sector