Reviews

Holburne Museum, Bath

The Holburne Museum has been reinvigorated by an extension that opens up the building and its collections. By Nicky Ryan

Books: Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience

Gillian Wolfe on an earnest study of the history and theory of education in US art museums

On my bookshelf

Brighton and Hove: City Guides (Pevsner Architectural Guides), by Nicholas Antram and Richard Morrice

Riverside Museum, Glasgow

A big-name architect and an innovative approach to display have won over visitors to Glasgow's new transport museum, including Oliver Green

The Hepworth Wakefield

Stephen Feeke is uplifted by a new gallery in Yorkshire devoted to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth

Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

Game, set and match to the Barber Institute, which has served up an ace exhibition about art and tennis, writes Mark Suggitt

On my bookshelf

The Hare with the Amber Eyes: a Hidden Inheritance, by Edmund de Waal

Museum of Liverpool

It's been worth the long wait for what feels like a genuine people's history museum on the Liverpool waterfront, says Oliver Green

Memoranda, Crafts Study Centre, Farnham

Four artists provide a fascinating insight into the Crafts Study Centre's Collection, writes Peter Mason

Books: Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners

There's plenty of cloak-and-dagger stuff in this book about an audacious theft, but it’s a whodunit with few answers, thinks Timothy Mason

On my bookshelf

England, England, by Julian Barnes

Books: Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain

A forensic examination of the history of medical collections would have benefited from a bit more drama, says Timothy Mason