Author: Rebecca Wallersteiner

Foundling Portraits Campaign, a new display at London’s Foundling museum until 27th February 2022, capturing the likenesses of the last surviving children cared for at London’s Foundling Hospital, between 1741 – 1954. At the Foundling Museum, London until 27th February 2022 and enlisting the help of five major artists, including Wolfgang Tillmans, a new display, Founding Portraits Campaign, supported by the Art Fund, captures the likeness of the last surviving children cared for at […]

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Rebecca Wallersteiner looks at The Passions of Richard Dadd Revisited at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, (the original Bedlam), until 27th November 2021, which examines the disturbing, powerful art of former ‘Bedlam’ patient Richard Dadd, who suffered from a form of paranoid schizophrenia. ‘For artist Richard Dadd, the passions were not merely emotions, preoccupations […]

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The Chelsea Flower Show is back this week celebrating the glory of autumn for the first time in its 108 year history: Rebecca Wallersteiner takes a look at the NHS Tribute Garden and the Florence Nightingale Garden and gives her pick of what to look out for. The pandemic has twice moved RHS Chelsea Flower […]

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What’s a summer holiday without a good summer reading list – Rebecca Wallersteiner recommends some exciting new titles to cram into your suitcase: Summer holidays are upon us and an abundance of compelling newly published books to choose from. From When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, a non-fiction novel meditating on […]

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Rebecca Wallersteiner looks at On Happiness, two concurrent new exhibitions at Wellcome Collection, London from July ‘21 which explore ways in which people can navigate the complexity of feelings and find joy and happiness under duress. It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways. We are […]

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