Ice Age art now

REVIEW BY OSCAR MORO ABADIA This publication was created to accompany the British Museum Partnership Exhibition Ice Age art now, held at Cliffe Castle Museum in summer 2025. The exhibition showcased the British Museum’s remarkable collection of Pleistocene mobiliary art objects, mostly from southern France. Written by curator Jill Cook (who also curated the 2013 exhibition Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind), the catalogue presents this collection through the lens of art-historical concepts. This is perhaps the first point worth noting: this publication primarily presents Pleistocene artwork from a traditional art-historical perspective, rather than an archaeological or anthrop