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Above: Helen, The Venus Bushfires, 2011, by Hassan Hajjaj Known for its work examining the connections between health and culture, In Plain Sight is the Wellcome Collection’s attempt to delve into the ...
Towards the end of last year, the Wellcome Collection in London decided to close its 15-year-old “Medicine Man” display because it “perpetuate[d] a version of medical history that is based ...
THAT is an exhibition about the Deaf experience and a crucial moment in history when sign language was sidelined ...
This mythic transformation is the subject of “Milk,” a major exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection that is set to run through September 30. The museum was established in 2007 to ...
Funded via a foundation established by nineteenth-century Big Pharma businessman Henry Wellcome, the Wellcome Collection’s exhibitions are all linked to health and well-being in one way or another.
Now, the Wellcome Collection knits together these disparate strands in a new London art exhibition, ‘Milk’, which considers everything from the perceived daily healthy habit to milk’s status as a ...
On 27 November the Wellcome Collection in London closed its Medicine Man gallery—an eclectic display of items drawn from pharmaceutical entrepreneur Henry Wellcome’s early 20th-century ...
In a Twitter thread, Wellcome Collection staff claimed that the items on display reflected an “outdated” worldview that excluded female, nonwhite, Indigenous, and disabled perspectives.
Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights, at London’s Wellcome Collection, puts a long overdue spotlight on these forms of physical labour. The space is divided into three zones headed “The ...
There isn't a single object displayed at the Wellcome Collection's latest exhibtion, yellowbluepink by Ann Veronica Janssens. Instead, visitors pass quietly and slightly unsteadily, feeling their way ...
The Wellcome Collection in London has returned an urn of human ashes for burial in Denmark, after research identified the remains of a young artist and member of the Danish resistance, who died in ...
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