Bluegill sunfish, Florida Museum of Natural History, USA
Apr
21
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Bluegill sunfish, Florida Museum of Natural History, USA

Defining words like man, woman, male and female in so-called ‘biological’ terms is a dangerous business. Despite what you might be told, we humans – like many birds, beasts and fish – have a delightfully broad range of biological variance and locking us down to one end of the spectrum is fraught with danger …

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The map that divided Poland (28 September 1939) Map, Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk, Poland
Apr
7
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The map that divided Poland (28 September 1939) Map, Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk, Poland

At the start of the Second World War, Poland was divided up, not for the first time. The Nazi and Soviet sectors are shown on this map, marked in pencil and signed in red (Ribbentrop) and blue (Stalin) with the date of the German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty …

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Radclyffe Hall (1918) by Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel), National Portrait Gallery, London
Mar
3
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Radclyffe Hall (1918) by Charles Buchel (Karl August Büchel), National Portrait Gallery, London

That the sitter was a lesbian is clearly on record as was the furore caused around the publication of her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928), which makes the argument for lesbian rights and same-sex marriage. A decade after this portrait was painted, her work would be banned …

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Terence Higgins ('Terry Higgins – Three Ages of Terry') (2023) by Curtis Holder, National Portrait Gallery, London
Feb
26
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Terence Higgins ('Terry Higgins – Three Ages of Terry') (2023) by Curtis Holder, National Portrait Gallery, London

The name Terence Higgins sits on queer people's lips with both pride and poignancy. Terence’s biography as a House of Commons Hansard reporter, barman and DJ is largely overshadowed by him being one of the first people in the UK to die of an AIDS-related illness …

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Chevalier d’Eon (1792) by Thomas Stewart, after Jean-Laurent Mosnier, National Portrait Gallery, London
Feb
24
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Chevalier d’Eon (1792) by Thomas Stewart, after Jean-Laurent Mosnier, National Portrait Gallery, London

Meet the Chevalier, a part of early 19th-century fashionable London society. A French diplomat, soldier, spy, celebrity fencer, performer and author, d’Eon lived and dressed throughout their life as both a man and woman. A source of fascination, people placed bets on …

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‘Unearthed – Mycelium’ by Jo Pearl (2023), Somerset House, London
Feb
3
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‘Unearthed – Mycelium’ by Jo Pearl (2023), Somerset House, London

How clever to create an exhibition about something we walk on every day – soil. There’s a whole world down there, hidden away. Scientific explanations of what lies under our feet are all very well, but this creative and visually attractive response to the subject of soil is very attractive to me …

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Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli - Film inside an image (2015–16) by Gerard Byrne, Towner, Eastbourne, Sussex
Dec
9
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Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli - Film inside an image (2015–16) by Gerard Byrne, Towner, Eastbourne, Sussex

This exhibition is titled in English and the endangered Nordic language of Southern Sámi. No equivalent word exists for ‘film’ in this language, interestingly the closest translation is ‘Life within an image’. The film itself slowly documents the 360-degree panoramic …

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‘The Street’ by Howard Riley, Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Nov
18
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‘The Street’ by Howard Riley, Salford Museum and Art Gallery

Is this street sloping up or downhill? Harold Riley wrote “I played with pictures of streets. I can’t tell if it’s going up or down, Some think it’s going down to the sea, or rising up to the hills. I like to play this trick. I find it interesting.” Like his friend, associate and local Salford artist L. S. Lowry …

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