Reviews

Castle Drogo, Devon

This historic property is in desperate need of restoration but that has not stopped the National Trust creating an interesting visitor experience while the work is carried out, writes Peter Mason

Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, British Museum, London

The British Museum's latest blockbuster shows that everyday Roman life was quite similar to ours in many ways, writes Peter Lewis

Books: Art and Authenticity

Timothy Mason on a bold attempt to address issues of authenticity, originality and replication in art

Catalogue

Kitaj Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné

On my bookshelf

The Isle of Mull: Placenames, Meanings and Stories by Charles MacLean

The Infirmary, University of Worcester

This exhibition about medical history is one of a number of projects that have been transforming cultural provision in Worcester, says Oliver Green

Ice Age Art: the Arrival of the Modern Mind, British Museum, London

This compelling exhibition successfully presents Ice Age objects as art rather than archaeological finds, writes Stephen Feeke

We Made It: Nuts, Bolts, Gadgets and Gizmos, Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum

Stuart Burch gets his hands dirty at a celebration of British engineering in the city that could once claim to be the workshop of the world

Books: Self-Portrait as a Young Man

Timothy Mason is entertained by Roy Strong’s memoir of the "boy from nowhere who went somewhere"

Catalogue: Yinka Shonibare, Fabric-ation

Clare Lilley on why it pays to wait for in-situ photography for catalogues at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

On my bookshelf

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris by Leanne Shapton

Historic Duxford, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire

Simon Stephens approves of the IWM's new permanent exhibition at its huge Duxford site