Rise and Fall: ‘Progress’ at The Foundling Museum
David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Grayson Perry and Jessie Brennan update Hogarth’s ‘A Rake’s Progress’
Review: ‘The First Georgians’ at The Queen’s Gallery
A new exhibition brings the circumstances of the Hanoverian Succession centre stage
‘Ruin Lust’ at Tate Britain
Ruination is a condition of modern life. An exhibition at Tate Britain explores its enduring appeal
The Face of War: ‘The Great War in Portraits’
This thoughtful and thought-provoking exhibition gives the war a human face
Ringing with Commendations: Joseph Wright
The Holburne has brought together a superb show that exceeds any limitations of scale or scope
Political Arts
‘I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few’. The William Morris Gallery hosts Jeremy Deller’s playful, provocative, politicised art
Caring for Kenwood
Kenwood House has been sympathetically if subtly restored; but will it become a burden in the proposed English Heritage shake-up?
Orient Expression
It’s an interesting premise, but ‘The Russian Avant-garde, Siberia and the East’ at Palazzo Strozzi is ultimately rather disorientating
Across the Pond
An exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery attempts to find a home for Whistler on the banks of the Thames
Iconoclasm Today
Tate Britain’s ‘Art Under Attack’ fails to address acts of contemporary iconoclasm, such as the destruction of the Chartist Mural in Wales
Hollow memorials? the problem with artists’ houses
A new installation mythologises Van Gogh’s old apartment in London: but such properties are often disappointing