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Pieces of paper laid out on the floor on top of each other.

Artists making books: poetry to politics
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This intriguing new show explores the history of artists taking on the medium of books.

A close up photograph of a silver griffin. The griffin has curled horns, a beak and gold details including its wings.

Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
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Drawing on dazzling objects, this exhibition explores how luxury shaped the political landscape of Eurasia in the first millennium BC.

Ink and colour picture showing the head and shoulders of an elderly Chinese woman with her hair tied back. She is wearing green earings and a blue jacket decorated with gold leaves around the neck.

China’s hidden century
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In a global first, the resilience and innovation of 19th-century China is revealed through the stories of its remarkable individuals.

An artwork made up of a blue background, a white sketch resembling wings, overlaid with a sepia coloured drawing of a nude women lying on her back.

Leon Golub and Nancy Spero: the Jon Bird gift
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Discover nine works on paper by the American artists Leon Golub and Nancy Spero that show 50 years of deep social and political engagement.

A block of yellow-green colour.

David Jones (1895–1974)
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Six drawings by David Jones, an artist and poet with a deep interest in mythology, theology and the cultural history of Britain.

A black textile adorned with a colourful scene, including sitting figures surrounded by trees, a figure shooting an arrow towards the sky, and Hanuman flying through the air carrying a rock, Hanuman (possibly carrying the Mountain of Herbs or Building the Bridge to Lanka), and Hanuman talking to a sage (with two hares below).

Burma to Myanmar
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Journeying through 1,500 years of cultural and political change, this exhibition charts a story of trade, faith and empire at the crossroads...