Reviews
American painting in Paris: the Louvre’s focus on US still-lifes
The genre took a while to catch on in America, but when artists did take up still-life painting they made it their own
Feminine Critique: Niki de Saint Phalle at the Guggenheim Bilbao
From shooting pictures to colourful ‘Nanas’, Saint Phalle’s work tackles feminist issues head on
Muse Reviews: 8 March
John Gerrard’s bleak vision of technological evolution; photography and human rights; and the forgotten master of still life, Henri de Fromantiou
The View from Earth: John Gerrard at Thomas Dane
As a study in hyperreality, John Gerrard’s digital reconstruction of a Google data farm is utterly unnerving
Muse Reviews: 1 March
On Kawara at the Guggenheim New York; Mariana Castillo Deball at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Leon Underwood at Pallant House; Mackintosh at RIBA
Review: ‘Human Rights Human Wrongs’ at The Photographers’ Gallery
Can photography influence social and political events, or just record them?
Creativity and Constraints: Mackintosh’s architectural drawings at RIBA
RIBA’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition is very much an architect’s show, consisting almost entirely of architectural drawings and watercolours. Only two…
Mariana Castillo Deball explores the rich history of Berlin
First and foremost Mariana Castillo Deball is a biographer of objects
Review: Isabelle Cornaro at Spike Island
Objects become images, images become objects, in the artist’s latest show
Time, Place, Date: On Kawara’s work at the Guggenheim NYC
On Kawara is famous for his date paintings, but he had other ways of marking and thinking about time
Muse Reviews: 22 February
Recent exhibition reviews and previews; from sultans, to Sturtevant, to salted paper prints…
Now you see her, now you don’t: Sturtevant at MoMA
Last chance to visit New York’s exhibition of conceptual copycat art
The Whitworth reopens
Great art, thoughtful curation and a snazzy café: Manchester’s £15 million redevelopment project is a great success
Review: ‘John Golding: Finding the Absolute’ at Piano Nobile
Golding’s rediscovered abstract paintings are the perfect choice to inaugurate Piano Nobile’s new space
‘Magnificent Obsessions’, magnificent show
From teaware to taxidermy: the Barbican’s exhibition is a fascinating insight into artists’ collecting habits
Muse Reviews: 15 February
Jacob Epstein’s babies, revolutionary calendars, Madame Cézanne, and a suitcase full of pictures
‘Lore Krüger: A Suitcase Full of Pictures’ at C/O Berlin
Lore Krüger’s work is a fantastic discovery for the history of photography
Travelling Treasures: The Frick Collection at the Mauritshuis
Masterpieces from New York’s Frick Collection travel to The Hague
The Lady Vanishes: ‘Madame Cézanne’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
No pairing of artist and muse was more complicated, ambivalent, or more richly productive
The Postcard Collector
Sophie Hill celebrates the postcard in a series of pop-up displays of pocket-sized art
Pure abstraction: ‘Sotto Voce’ and the appeal of the abstract white relief
London’s Dominique Lévy Gallery looks again at the 20th-century trend
Revolutionary whimsy: ‘Ruth Ewan: Back to the Fields’ at Camden Arts Centre
Is the artist’s latest show anything more than a charming tribute to a failed experiment?
Family Man: the Foundling Museum presents another side to Jacob Epstein
A candid look at the artist’s portraits of his children
Podcast
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The BBC’s Big Painting Challenge is not the publicity British art needs
Is it better to throw in your lot with dozens of other Sunday painters than go to art school?