Last Minute Listing: Henry Wellcome @ Brent Archives
The ghost of Henry Wellcome revisits Willesden tonight.
Wellcome Collection
Exhibition Review: High Society – A History Of Drug Culture
Beginning with the idea that the alteration of consciousness is a universal human impulse, Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition, High Society takes a look at the history of drug taking across the continents. Starting with their plant origins and ending at the development of the synthetic …
Lit Preview: Writing About Medicine @ Wellcome Collection
Medicine and wellbeing in literature is up for discussion at the Wellcome Collection on Wednesday. Dr Richard Barnett, Dr Erin Sullivan and Dr Michael Neve – who was on the judging panel of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2010 – will chew the fat over …
Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 9 – 15 November
Miss Dior, René Gruau. Circa 1960. Black ink, gouache and watercolour. Private Collection. Copyright: SARL René Gruau Here’s our pick of what’s new in London this week. And there’s lots of excitement for fans of big new art shows and exhibitions. London Shows Opening: Be …
Wellcome Collection Wants Your Dust
The King’s Cross dust heap. Not content with asking for ‘Things…no bigger than your head‘, the Wellcome Collection is now moving into the ultimate in crowdsourced art. They want members of the public to send in household dust for a forthcoming exhibition about the grimy …
Londonist Out Loud: Things @ Wellcome Collection
This audio has expired. For episode pictures and other Londonist Out Loud material please see here. First in a new series of audio interviews with some of the best creative minds around town. The Wellcome Collection’s current exhibition Things invites its visitors to supply the …
Bring A ‘Thing’ To Oddball Wellcome Exhibition
Occasionally – oh so very occasionally – an arts press release does its job and describes its subject in an intelligible and alluring way. So it is with the blurb for the new THINGS exhibition at Wellcome Collection: Between 12th and 19th October members of …
New App Tours The Gruesome History Of Medical London
A new app for iPhone (and Appley variants thereof) takes listeners on an audiovisual tour of Bloomsbury. Not the bookish, bonking Bloomsbury of V. Woolf and chums, but the gory medical heritage of this deceptively quiescent quarter. Subtitled Blood, Guts, Brains and Babies (as with …
Skin Exposed & Live Tattooing @ Wellcome
Quick, quick: it’s your last chance to get hold of tickets to this weekend’s Skin Exposed event at Wellcome Collection – a “two-part ‘skin-posium’ to explore nakedness in all its guises” as they say. Friday is literary and Saturday is delightfully multidisciplinary. Call 020 7611 …
Review: Skin @ Wellcome Collection
They’ve probed the heart and inspected the bones. Now, the Wellcome Collection turn their magpie attentions to the body’s most visible component: the skin. With the usual mix of science, art and medicine, Skin charts the dissection, decoration, disease, decay and diverse dermatological details through …
Review: Pressure Drop @ Wellcome Collection
Billy Bragg and Mick Gordon Billy Bragg has been a welcome figure in the news lately, speaking out against bankers’ bonus culture and confronting Richard Barnbrook in Barking and Dagenham out on the campaign trail with Hope Not Hate. Now he’s flying the flag for …
