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