Reviews
Muse Reviews
Homages to plaster casts and Portland stone; Chris Burden’s wonderful final work; plus, ‘has David Hockney been at the ketamine?’
Reading Basquiat’s Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum
Words and writing were as much a part of Basquiat’s art as his visual imagery
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
Hepworth Wakefield puts plaster casts in pride of place
Barbara Hepworth once called plaster ‘a dead material’. She was wrong
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
Muse Reviews
The hidden David Parr House in Cambridge; the Waddesdon Bequest; and the verdict from Venice
Verbal Assault: ‘All The World’s Futures’ Reviewed
A joyless preference for the verbal over the visual at the Venice Biennale
A tour through the wastelands: don’t miss Prunella Clough at Osborne Samuel
Clough excelled at making art from the ugly and the overlooked
The Art of Work: Visiting the David Parr House
Is this remarkable house Cambridge’s best kept secret?
Muse Reviews
Yale institutions launch a Critique of Reason; a ‘fake’ in the Dulwich Picture Gallery; and a preview of Spring Masters New York
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
Yale art institutions come together in the Critique of Reason
Enlightenment and Romantic artists had more in common than you think
London Diary: 3 May
Supersymmetry dazzles in the Vinyl Factory; Lawrence Lek empties the Royal Academy; and a horrible vision in Hammersmith
Muse Reviews
Our pick of the Venice Biennale; highlights from the Pompidou pop-up in Málaga; and the Jewish Museum’s celebration of TV
At the boundary of art and politics: ‘Borderlands’ at GRAD reviewed
Artists in London respond to the situation in Ukraine
Highlights from the Pompidou pop-up in Málaga
Some high-profile works have made it to Málaga to inaugurate the Pompidou’s latest venue
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
Packing a Punch: Ten highlights from the London Original Print Fair
Modern and contemporary works steal the show this year
Carol Bove’s art relies on the gallery for conceptual clout
Context is everything: and without it, her work looks a lot like design
How Poussin found God
The ability to paint a good orgy, as Poussin certainly could, never made a religious painter irreligious
London Diary
Hockney’s psychedelic new creations at Annely Juda; Thomas Struth’s exceptional photographs at Marian Goodman; and Andre Kertesz at James Hyman