Cabinets of wonder
To Oxford’s tourists, the Pitt Rivers Museum is the place with the shrunken skulls. For Frank Cottrell Boyce, it has been a refuge and an eye-opener
To Oxford’s tourists, the Pitt Rivers Museum is the place with the shrunken skulls. For Frank Cottrell Boyce, it has been a refuge and an eye-opener
Xu Bing’s ambitions could have been dashed by Maoism, but his skill saved him
The Frick gives New Yorkers a rare chance to peek into the Golden Age
At the Cloisters, in Upper Manhattan, James Lasdun’s gothic fantasies are reawakened
The author of fantasy falls under the spell of a strange, intricate, unfinished painting
The poet Kathleen Jamie combs through the treasures of the Stromness Museum