‘Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem’: beauty, transience, and colonial displacement
Cameron Thomas reflects on the abundance and exploitation layered upon the canvases of Jan Davidz de Heem, in a current ...
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Fitzwilliam Museum: what’s wrong with the chronology of art? This thematic rehang is choppy and underwhelming
“Pointed but respectful”: that’s how the director of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, Luke Syson, describes the new atmosphere inside the five principal painting galleries within its 19th ...
Rise Up, Fitzwilliam Museum: A claustrophobic interrogation of the legacy of the slave trade
This sombre show contains exhibits that skewer the heart – but it rather peters out with a curiously lukewarm call to action ...
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Rise Up teaches us how the enslaved fought for abolition
Rise Up at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge ­examines ­resistance to ­slavery. It is a welcome attempt to discuss how the ­university’s collection is still funded by slave trade money. It is an ...