‘Mum fought like a tigress to stop me going into care’: Jason Wilsher-Mills on turning his childhood paralysis into art
At 11, the artist was struck with a condition that paralysed him from the neck down. His new exhibition recalls years of hospitals, family love, and fighting with cinema managers
October 2023
The Cult of Beauty review – delusional, divine, deadly…
‘Beauty aids often look like horror movie props’: the show lifting the lid on a £660bn industry
May 2023
Rachel Cooke on food
An exhibition about milk’s complicated history has me rethinking my morning cuppa
Rachel Cooke
The Wellcome Collection’s show has art and history, biology and ecology, public health, politics – and the dangers of ice-cream
December 2022
Grace Ndiritu: The Healing Pavilion; Jim Naughten: Objects in Stereo review – what next at the Wellcome?
The Wellcome’s two latest shows uniting art, life and medicine mine the collection’s capacious history and contents with varying success
November 2022
Wellcome Collection in London shuts ‘racist, sexist and ableist’ medical history gallery
Grace Ndiritu’s invitation to ‘shamanic journeys’ wins Jarman award
October 2022
In the frame: a close look at the world of spectacles
A new exhibition focuses on sight – from myopic 13th-century monks to the fabulous frames of Iris Apfel and Jarvis Cocker
June 2022
Hidden Histories
Macabre, biased and fascinating: why you should visit the Wellcome Collection
The permanent collection of gruesome medical artefacts, is just one of the attractions at this mesmerising and forward-looking London institution
May 2022
‘I’m very conscious of art-washing but we have to bloody well do something’: the show tackling air pollution
From a 1661 pamphlet imploring action on smog to works by Tacita Dean and Dryden Goodwin, In the Air gives artistic form to the stuff we draw into our lungs
December 2021
Natural History Museum and Edinburgh Castle closed by Covid
Surge in cases among staff causes closure of several museums during busy school holiday period
July 2021
Winners of Wellcome Photography Prize 2021 announced
Joy; Tranquillity review – try Scottish dancing and a dram instead
June 2021
Wellcome photography prize 2021 shortlist: health challenges – in pictures
This year the Wellcome photography prize is exploring the human side of three urgent health challenges: managing mental health, fighting infectious diseases and global heating
May 2020
The great British art quiz
Where did Henry Wellcome keep his cats? The great British art quiz
The Wellcome Collection in London set today’s quiz with Art UK, enabling you to explore the collections of UK museums closed due to coronavirus – while answering some brain-teasers
January 2020
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Trump's threat to Iranian treasures and flashes of fascist Italy – the week in art
The president’s bomb targets, the future of speed and flight, the power of maternality, and the creations of a political refugee potter – all in your weekly dispatch
November 2019
Manchester museum returns stolen sacred artefacts to Indigenous Australians
Handover boosts aim to release 32,000 ceremonial items from British institutions
October 2019
'We're cosseting our kids' – the war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds
Architects are taking issue with risk-averse playparks full of sluggish roundabouts and tiny climbing frames. But are playgrounds in the middle of roads really the answer?
September 2019
No art lover left behind: how galleries are finally welcoming disabled people
Astronauts, breast milk and chewed gum: Being Human – in pictures
