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Reviews

Dairy Art Centre, London

This potentially exciting new contemporary art space needs to work harder on improving facilities for its visitors, says Julia Edge

Books: The Exemplary Museum: Art and Academia

This study of the role of art collections at US universities will hold few surprises for British readers, writes Timothy Mason

Catalogue: Stradivarius

Declan McCarthy on the challenges of getting high quality images for this publication to accompany the Ashmolean's exhibition about Stradivarius

On my bookshelf

The Museum Experience by John H Falk and Lynn D Dierking

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

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

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

Caught in the Crossfire: Artistic Responses to Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation, The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Sharon Heal on a fine example of regional programming in an exhibition that uses art to expose the reality of war

Historic Duxford, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire

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