Reviews
Mary Weatherford takes on Titian in his hometown
The Californian painter’s responses to ‘The Flaying of Marsyas’ have a sublime quality all of its own
David Hockney sees through it all at the Fitzwilliam
The painter may be fond of his iPad, but his longstanding suspicion of the technologies that have tied artists to linear perspective is to the fore here
The rococo interiors that furnished Walt Disney’s imagination
The French furniture that inspired the look of Disney’s best-loved films also came out of a studio system that required a good deal of collaboration
The Finnish painter who longed for freedom
Akseli Gallen-Kallela is best-known for his pretty lakeside views, but he also yearned for political independence and spiritual fulfilment
Power play — ‘“Daddy”: A Melodrama’ at the Almeida, reviewed
Jeremy O. Harris’ latest play unravels the twisted power dynamics between a wealthy white art collector and an emerging Black artist on a Hockney-inspired stage
Why are so many public statues so disappointing?
The most successful public statues are more than mere three-dimensional versions of photographs plonked on plinths
Spying an opportunity – how Francis Bacon made it to Moscow
James Birch recounts the improbable story of how, with help from the KGB, he put on a show of Bacon’s work in the Soviet Union
Gilt complex – ‘Gold in America’ at Yale University Art Gallery, reviewed
The gold objects in this show may glitter, but some of their previous owners are cast in a far from flattering light
The thoroughly modern scenes of Florine Stettheimer
The painter who was at the heart of the New York avant-garde captured the many excitements of the modern age
Full frontal flatness – Marlene Dumas in Venice, reviewed
The South African artist’s exposing paintings are not merely portraits of bare flesh – they are revelations of humanity’s darker, more painful depths
Lord of the wings – how Audubon’s career got off to a flying start
James John Audubon’s illustrations of birds endure to this day, even if many of the species he depicted didn’t make it
Golden boy – the timeless appeal of Tutankhamun
A century after the discovery of his tomb, our interest in the teenage pharaoh says more about the present than the past
‘A six-gun salute to the bespectacled one’ – Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, reviewed
The designer’s infatuation with the fine arts ran deep, as a series of exhibitions throughout the city’s museums makes clear
Meet Magritte – the man behind the apple
Bowler hats off to a new biography of the painter that chips away at the Belgian’s bourgeois veneer
A full house of Tudors at the Holburne Museum
Seeing the National Portrait Gallery’s treasures in a new setting allows us to appreciate the larger-life-than personalities behind the paintings in new ways
In Carlo Crivelli’s tricksy paintings, nothing is as it seems
The painter employed trompe l’oeil like no artist before or since – and his box of tricks makes for a real treat at Ikon in Birmingham
How every age has invented a Stonehenge to suit itself
The prehistoric monument may seem timeless, but enthusiasts have constantly reimagined the site to suit their own preoccupations
School for sandals – educating artists at Benton End
Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines’s art school in Suffolk was an unusual meeting of rural idyll and bohemian vice
Holbein’s signs and seals really deliver at the Morgan Library
By homing in on Holbein’s miniatures, this survey of the Renaissance master gives us a broad picture of the world he lived in
Did Surrealism really travel all that well?
The movement begun by André Breton in Paris found followers all over the world, but displaying their efforts all together makes for a muddled show
Only the art world could have been fooled by Anna Sorokin for so long
The story of the scammer who passed herself off as an heiress should make for must-see television, but reality far outstrips Shonda Rhimes’s overly safe retelling
The mystery of the lost Maya sculpture
Andew James Hamilton follows the efforts to find a Maya carving that was first uncovered in 1950, but has since seemingly disappeared from view
In Renaissance Italy, the making of altarpieces was an amazingly exacting affair
In this hugely ambitious survey, David Ekserdjian encourages us to see some of the most remarkable artworks of their time with fresh eyes
In ‘Archive 81’, restoring VHS tapes turns out to be a complete nightmare
In this Netflix series a film conservator is tasked with rescuing a set of videotapes from the 1990s. What could possibly go wrong?
Podcast
![Masterpiece [Re]discovery 2022. Photo: Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London](http://new-dev.apollo-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MPL2022_4263.jpg)
Master of art – the towering legacy of David Sylvester