Bedlam erupts at the Wellcome Collection

More than 150 works of art dealing with mental illness and the history of Bethlem Royal Hospitalpopularly known as Bedlamgo on view at the Wellcome Collection in London this month. Bedlam: the Asylum and Beyond (15 September-15 January 2017) traces the history of the hospital and our changed understanding of mental illness through work by patients such as James Tilly Matthews (who was confined there for life as an incurable lunatic) and contemporary installation by artists such as Eva Kottkov. O