Muse Reviews: 24 August
A roundup of the week’s reviews: including Syrian artists in London; Titian in Scotland; a riverbed in Denmark…
Gallery: ‘Roman in the Provinces’ at Yale University Art Gallery
Highlights from a new exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery
Gallery: ‘A Brief History of New York’ at the New-York Historical Society
Which objects would you choose to sum up a city like New York?
Gallery: ‘Portraiture Now’ at the NPG Washington
A new exhibition contends that portraiture doesn’t reflect the self; it constructs it
Art Outlook: 21 August
Major resignations at Gwangju Biennale and Art Basel; the Bin Laden’s Carrara quarry; and drama at the Jeff Koons retrospective
Gallery: ‘Make It New’ at the Clark
The Clark Institute is putting its new building to good use with an exhibition of abstract painting
Gallery: ‘African Cosmos’ at LACMA
How has the night sky influenced African art over the centuries?
Muse Reviews: 17 August
Perspectives on war: Marsden Hartley’s paintings from Berlin in WWI; and Mark Neville’s photographs and films from Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Gallery: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ at the Cantor Arts Center
Satan, sin and the underworld…selected highlights
Gallery: ‘The Art of Marcel Ronay’ at the Lightbox, Woking
Ronay’s paintings and drawings from interwar Vienna build up a revealing portrait of a pleasure-seeking city
Book Competition
The Scottish National War Memorial, which stands within the walls of Edinburgh Castle, was built to commemorate the dead of the Great War
Art Outlook: 14 August
Ukraine museums move to protect their collections; auction houses move online; and robots move in to the Tate
Gallery: ‘That Obscure Object of Desire’ at Luxembourg & Dayan
Seven artists over eight decades who have explored the body as a fetishised, provocative object
Gallery: ‘Lights Out’ commemorates First World War centenary
A look back at last week’s light-based commissions marking the outbreak of the First World War
Muse Reviews: 10 August
The week’s reviews: art in lights in Times Square; magic lanterns at the Whitechapel Gallery; and an epiphany of sorts at the Sandham Memorial Chapel
Gallery: ‘East of the Wallace Line’ at Yale University Art Gallery
Art from Indonesia and New Guinea goes on show at the Yale University Art Gallery
Gallery: Shigeru Ban designs the Aspen Art Museum
How does the new building compare to the architect’s previous projects?
Art Outlook: 7 August
What is the light over London? Can children understand art? And what are tortoises doing in the Aspen Art Museum?
Gallery: Art Everywhere US
Highlights from Art Everywhere US, the world’s largest outdoor art show celebrating America’s artistic heritage
Muse Reviews: 3 August
A round-up of the week’s reviews: Hauser & Wirth Somerset; Rodin’s gift to the V&A; the Museum Bredius; and The Space Where I Am
Book Competition
‘Radical Geometry: Latin American Abstract Expressionism’ charts the emergence of several distinct artistic movements across South America
The Apollo Podcast July/August: The Imperial War Museum Reopens
Thomas Marks, Diane Lees and David Boyd Haycock discuss the role of art in commemorating the First World War
‘She had no time for elitism, but was passionate about excellence’ – a tribute to Rosalind Savill