Reviews
Books: Playing to the Gallery
Turner Prize-winner Grayson Perry's personality shines through in this guide to understanding and appreciating contemporary art. By Nicholas Thornton
Trainspotting, National Railway Museum, York
Rebecca Atkinson visits York to find out what the National Railway Museum can reveal about the much-misunderstood hobby of trainspotting
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire
The home of world war two codebreaking has been brought alive by interactive and immersive displays that recreate the atmosphere of the time, says Simon Stephens
Catalogue: War, Art and Surgery: The Work of Henry Tonks & Julia Midgley
Sam Alberti hopes that this catalogue shows the quiet heroism of the service people facing long roads to recovery
Ming: 50 Years that Changed China, British Museum, London; Ming: the Golden Empire, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Peter Lewis visits two exhibitions that explore the legacy of the rich and powerful Ming empire
Books: Loot and Stolen Art from Antiquity until the Present Day
Timothy Mason is impressed by a thought-provoking book about the long history of looted art
Catalogue: Frank Bowling Traingone
Mia Sundberg on a catalogue that has been designed to reflect the look of the rooms created for a show about a Guyana-born artist who trained in Britain