‘Pharaoh features over five hundred objects that together tell the complex and diverse story of these ancient kings.’

By Dr Marie Vandenbeusch

‘My photographic practice to date still hinges on this initial encounter with twentieth-century African photographers, which, importantly, came after I discovered and began collecting ethnographic photographs of Africans taken as documentation of our cultures.’

By Atong Atem

‘The mild-mannered Arp soon became entrenched in a quietist mode of artistic production that both needed and combined three factors: the innocence of a child; the attentiveness of a naturalist; and the tenacity of a spawning salmon.’

By Dr Ken Wach

‘Denis began visiting the Musée du Louvre at age fifteen, where he was drawn to the works of Fra Angelico and Botticelli in particular.’

By Dr Ted Gott

‘Heavily inspired by the literalist sensibility of Jasper Johns’s Flag and Target series, Stella subsequently produced a groundbreaking series of paintings in 1959 featuring thick, black rectilinear stripes separated by narrow intervals of unpainted canvas.’

By Eva Christoff

‘Monuments and movements is compelling, recognisable and yet broken and deconstructed. It hits you hard enough, emotionally, that it somehow stays with you.’

By Nina Sanadze and Elisa Scarton