Reviews

London Diary

Tate’s ‘Fighting History’ is a failure: if you want proper history, see Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Revolutionary work at Victoria Miro

21 Jun 2015

Muse Reviews

How did artists respond to Waterloo? Does Finland have too many artists? How does performance fit into a museum collection?

20 Jun 2015

Muse Reviews

Frida Kahlo in the garden; highlights from Art Basel; sculpture in Oslo; and Dan Holdsworth’s dizzying photographs

13 Jun 2015

Public art, private funds: can Oslo learn from Christian Ringnes’ sculpture park?

Changing Norwegian attitudes to privately-funded art

9 Jun 2015

A case of mistaken identity at the Whitechapel Gallery

Corin Sworn has filled the space with costumes and props inspired by the Italian Commedia dell’Arte

8 Jun 2015

Thomas Struth in Israel and Palestine: a land shaped and scarred by religion

Everything in Struth’s shots seems to have taken on a level of aggression

8 Jun 2015

London Diary

Michael Craig-Martin has brightened up the RA Summer Exhibition a bit, but Agnes Martin is truly unmissable at the Tate

7 Jun 2015

Muse Reviews

In search of sculptures on London’s latest art trail; James Turrell heads for Norfolk; transforming Met and the V&A with film

6 Jun 2015

Walking a Fine Line: London’s new sculpture trail

The Line is a great concept, but it’s not without teething problems

4 Jun 2015

Review: Woman in Gold asks questions about the value of art

Helen Mirren stars as Maria Altmann, an émigré Austrian Jew battling to have a painting returned to her after its theft by the Nazis

3 Jun 2015

Muse Reviews

Grayson Perry takes the stage at Turner Contemporary; the Latona Fountain flashes into life at Versailles; and we take a sneak peek at some treasures of ‘Gold and Ivory’

31 May 2015

Review: Grayson Perry at Turner Contemporary

For once, the influential artist’s work is left to speak for itself

27 May 2015

Review: ‘Zero Atmosphere’ at Cortesi Gallery, London

Is London’s attention shifting away from Italian art?

26 May 2015

Highlights from ‘Gold and Ivory’ at Louvre-Lens

Beautiful example of medieval painting, sculpture and decorative arts on show at the Louvre-Lens Museum

25 May 2015

Muse Reviews

Homages to plaster casts and Portland stone; Chris Burden’s wonderful final work; plus, ‘has David Hockney been at the ketamine?’

24 May 2015

Reading Basquiat’s Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum

Words and writing were as much a part of Basquiat’s art as his visual imagery

23 May 2015

Rethinking Reynolds at the Wallace Collection

Reynolds may have fallen out of fashion, but a recent conference suggests there’s more to his works than meets the eye

22 May 2015

Hepworth Wakefield puts plaster casts in pride of place

Barbara Hepworth once called plaster ‘a dead material’. She was wrong

20 May 2015

End Matter: Katrina Palmer explores the source of Portland stone

Palmer’s project for Artangel looks at the negative space left by some of the world’s great monuments

20 May 2015

London Diary

Hockney’s psychedelic new creations at Annely Juda; Thomas Struth’s exceptional photographs at Marian Goodman; and Andre Kertesz at James Hyman

17 May 2015