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Curatorial Conversations VIII

Collection

Continuing on from last month, find out more about the thinking behind the redevelopment of our new museum.

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“Damaging the Body”: New Seminar Series

Events

We may think that the idea of "damage" to the physical body is self-evident, but countless historical, anthropological and social studies have...

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Yayoi Kusama – Outsider Artist? 1

Art

The moving story of artist Yayoi Kusama’s lifelong battle against nightmares of obliteration - hallucinations of polka-dot patterns pervading...

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Just Visiting 2: Samuel Beckett

Literature

Next Monday (19 March 2012), the Archivist will give a Gresham lecture at the Museum of London on the subject of unrestricted public visiting...

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More Blogged About Than Blogging

Collection

We don’t know whether it is literally true that we are more blogged about than blogging – we do blog rather a lot – but from time to time the...

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In the Frame for March 2012:

Art

This month's 'In the Frame' highlights a less well-known area of our collection; the lantern slides.

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“There is Good in Us”: New Exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery

Art

Challenging popular culture’s negative perception of mental health, artist George Harding’s exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery seeks to shows...

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Nicholas Tromans at the Bethlem Museum

Art

Dr Nicholas Tromans (author of Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum) visited the museum on Saturday 11 February to formally open the exhibition...

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Curatorial Conversations VII

Collection

We continue with our curatorial conversations as we try to decide how our new museum will look and feel.

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An Extraordinary Life 1

Literature

Antonia White’s Beyond the Glass, the last in the sequence of autobiographical novels which began with Frost in May, was briefly reviewed on...

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Biography and Psychology V: Henry Francis Harding (1826-1896)

History

Read the next in our series looking at biography and psychology.

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A Sporting Chance 1

History

Find out about sport at Bethlem and what was on offer in the 19th century.

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