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Find out more about Anna Kavan's portrait of the 'elusive protagonist' of her novels 'Ice' and 'Mercury'.

The issue of what exactly comprises damage to the physical body appears in a number of contemporary debates within medicine and more widely...

Learn more about the history W.H.R. Rivers, doctoer to famous war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

On 2 May, a new exhibition opens at the Bethlem Gallery. Steph’s vibrant, illustrative paintings and drawings explore narrative, spontaneity...

This month we look at the idea of 'Challenging history' and how museums can go about displaying objects and histories that people may not wish to see.

( continued from previous post )Our volunteer continues:The retrospective reinterpretation of Kusama’s work by critics was fuelled by an interest...

As we lead up to the London 2012 Olympics, join us to find out more about the significance of sport at Bethlem.

The thesis of a direct link between ‘madness’ and ‘creativity’ is a supposition that cannot stand much scrutiny, any more than can that of one...

In the small space of the present Bethlem Museum, we can only display around five per cent of our nearly 1,000 artworks at any one time. Luckily...

A new exhibition at the Bethlem Gallery opened this week: Roy's Scribble Doodle Storm. Roy's unique style brings together drawing and installation...

This month's 'In the Frame' focuses on Spicer's 'Mountain Range', as interpreted by one of our volunteers.

( continued from previous post )Our volunteer writes:When considering Yayoi Kusama’s art, most critics choose to focus on her lifelong pathological...