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After Darwin

This event has now finished Until Nov 29 2009 Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, London, SW7 5BD Full details & map

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It took Charles Darwin 30 years to write 'The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals' and it seems like it took the Natural History Museum an age to open this show of contemporary responses, in a year already stuffed to the evolutionary gills with bicentennial celebrations of the naturalist's birth. Credit is due for commissioning new pieces but only Diana Thater's touching film 'gorillagorillagorilla' can really count as serious Darwinian enquiry. The slapstick, sideshow ending is a mirror by Jeremy Deller entreating visitors to make silly chimp faces, really little more than an extension of his earlier gurning championships in which men underlined their cromagnoid cranial capabilities. (OW)

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The [h]ands[o]me A[l]fred Waterhouse bui[l]ding houses [a] collectio[n] that contains some 70 million plant, animal, fossil, rock and mineral...

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