"Visitors to Tate Modern will be able to try out five giant slides that have been unveiled at the London gallery."
'Tate Modern unveils giant slides', BBC News, 9 October 2006.

'Power and Taboo: Polynesian gods at the British Museum', 24 Hour Museum, 2 October 2006.

Power & Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific, British Museum, 28 September 2006 - 7 January 2007.

Review of Rodin Exhibition:
'At the Royal Academy' by Peter Campbell, London Review of Books, 28(19).

'Unveiled: early copy that reveals Mona Lisa as her creator intended' by Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 23 September 2006.

'How lust shaped the art of Rodin' by Richard Dorment, The Telegraph, 19 September 2006 - includes slideshow and podcast.

"None of Leonardo's inventions ever took off, but an exhibition of his scientific drawings reveals how his extraordinary mind worked"
'New light on a high-flying genius' by Richard Dorment, The Telegraph, 19 September 2006 - includes slideshow.

"Martyrs and lovers, kissers and thinkers, the good and the damned ... Rodin's exaggerated figures tell us what it is to be human."
'Your own flesh and blood' by Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 19 September 2006.

'Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design' by Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 14 September 2006.

'A walk in the dark' by Jonathan Jones. The Guardian, 17 August, 2006
- Hogarth Trail.

Index of Medieval Medical Images - from UCLA

From Cradle to Grave: an art installation by David Critchley, Susie Freeman and Liz Lee

COMPASS entry

Woman's Hour, 2003

On the cover of the BMJ, 333(7557)

Light Magic: The life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (iToors.com).

Researching Cruikshank's series of cartoons, The Bottle and The Drunkard's Children, I came across this great site about Magic Lantern slides. Fantastic.

Finally caught the Americans in Paris exhibition at the National Gallery. Generally very impressive, though I was disappointed in the Mary Casatt paintings, having previously been very taken with her prints.

Boop Reads a Folk Tale (Cute Overload)

The Beatrix Potter Collections (V&A).

The Illustrators Project: Helen Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) (University of Pittsburgh).

Peter Rabbit and Friends

Rupert Bear is being restyled for TV. Meanwhile, he has been nominated as a style icon - vote here. The official website includes annual covers for 1936-2005. A brief history is online at Teddy Bear UK.

The latest stamp issue from the Royal Mail is the Animal Tales Collection of storybook characters. Of course, Paddington is 1st class..

'Rooms with a View: Landscape & Wallpaper' by Michel Leight.The City Review, 7 July 2001.

Theory and Practice: Late Victorian Wallpaper by John Burrows.

'Wallpaper' by Barbara Krasner-Khait. History Magazine, Oct-Nov 2001.

Saint Michael triumphant over the Devil is the National Gallery's Painting of the Month.

Online at the Ashmolean - pictures from an exhibition in 2003, in which monks created the Tibetan Sand Mandala of Chenrezi.