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Name the body's largest organ and many would cite the liver, the brain or maybe the heart. But, truth is, the skin is king.

The Wellcome Institute has just opened a free - and occasionally ghoulish - exhibition on our outer coating - what we've thought about it, what we've done to it and how the crueller excesses of nature have distorted it.

Hanging Hooke, Greenwich Theatre
4/5

"Chris Barnes took us on a journey of energy and intrigue. He showed us light and gloom; diverting particles and heliocentric heresies; vacuum pumps and broken hearts (which, I suppose, are the same thing, metaphorically speaking)"