Coco Chanel’s second coming
The V&A’s exhibition focuses on the designer’s clothes – with little attention given to her equally spectacular life.
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Band on the rise: Paul McCartney’s candid Sixties photographs
The National Portrait Gallery exhibition of “forgotten” pictures will be revelatory for Beatles obsessives.
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Mugshots of a nation
After a three-year facelift, the bandages are now off the National Portrait Gallery.
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“Crabs taught me to be anti-capitalist”: how a Margate museum is on a mission to change politics
What do capitalism, colonialism and the climate crisis have to do with crustaceans?
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Museums like the Wellcome Collection miss the middle ground in the culture wars
In between cancelling and venerating, there is providing context.
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“It breaks down barriers”: The museum that moved into a south London shopping centre
From a disused fire station to a former branch of H&M, the country’s first museum of migration, which tells stories of…
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