Reviews

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

Muse Reviews

The hidden David Parr House in Cambridge; the Waddesdon Bequest; and the verdict from Venice

17 May 2015

Baltic Diary: May

What have the Baltic nations contributed to the Venice Biennale?

16 May 2015

Verbal Assault: ‘All The World’s Futures’ Reviewed

A joyless preference for the verbal over the visual at the Venice Biennale

15 May 2015

A tour through the wastelands: don’t miss Prunella Clough at Osborne Samuel

Clough excelled at making art from the ugly and the overlooked

12 May 2015

The Very Best of the Venice Biennale

Visiting Venice? Don’t miss these shows

Front room, David Parr House

The Art of Work: Visiting the David Parr House

Is this remarkable house Cambridge’s best kept secret?

11 May 2015

Muse Reviews

Yale institutions launch a Critique of Reason; a ‘fake’ in the Dulwich Picture Gallery; and a preview of Spring Masters New York

10 May 2015

A Fantastical Feast at the Palazzo Pitti

Sugar, starch and a menagerie of animals: the marriage banquet of Maria de’ Medici and Henri IV of France was a sight to behold

9 May 2015

Yale art institutions come together in the Critique of Reason

Enlightenment and Romantic artists had more in common than you think

8 May 2015

London Diary: 3 May

Supersymmetry dazzles in the Vinyl Factory; Lawrence Lek empties the Royal Academy; and a horrible vision in Hammersmith

3 May 2015

Muse Reviews

Our pick of the Venice Biennale; highlights from the Pompidou pop-up in Málaga; and the Jewish Museum’s celebration of TV

3 May 2015

At the boundary of art and politics: ‘Borderlands’ at GRAD reviewed

Artists in London respond to the situation in Ukraine

2 May 2015

Window-shopping at the V&A

It’s hard to take luxury exhibitions very seriously

29 Apr 2015

Highlights from the Pompidou pop-up in Málaga

Some high-profile works have made it to Málaga to inaugurate the Pompidou’s latest venue

28 Apr 2015

Muse Reviews

Inside the new Whitney; great, gaudy gothic at Strawberry Hill; how Poussin found God; Carol Bove’s optional conceptualism; Digby Warde-Aldam tours London

25 Apr 2015

Packing a Punch: Ten highlights from the London Original Print Fair

Modern and contemporary works steal the show this year

23 Apr 2015

Carol Bove’s art relies on the gallery for conceptual clout

Context is everything: and without it, her work looks a lot like design

23 Apr 2015

How Poussin found God

The ability to paint a good orgy, as Poussin certainly could, never made a religious painter irreligious

21 Apr 2015