Reviews

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

Historic Duxford, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire

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

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

On my bookshelf

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

Vikings!, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Sharon Heal wanted a bit more blood and thunder in this exhibition about Vikings that has crossed the seas from Sweden