Reviews

Mapping the contemporary: Bloomberg New Contemporaries vs. Tomorrow: London

Last week brought two shows to London that claim to present the scope of new contemporary art being made in…

4 Dec 2014

The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere

Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?

2 Dec 2014

Review: ‘Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life’ at Pace Gallery, London

Sugimoto’s photographs of museum dioramas draws attention to the deceptive potential of photography and art

28 Nov 2014

Review: ‘Basic Design: A Revolution in Art Education’ at the Hatton Gallery

Art education has come a long way since the 1950s. Is the Basic Design ‘revolution’ a little dated?

27 Nov 2014

Review: CRW Nevinson’s ‘Rebel Visions’ at the Barber Institute

A small but powerful collection of Nevinson’s visions of war

26 Nov 2014

From the mass market to the museum: ‘Warhol Mania’ in Montreal

Warhol not only made art about mass consumption, he made art for mass consumption too

25 Nov 2014

Review: Moroni’s self-conscious sitters at the Royal Academy

Moroni is a master of fine fabrics and awkward expressions

24 Nov 2014

Muse Reviews: 23 November

Paul Nash’s watercolours; Manet and contemporary art; photographers’ contact sheets; and Beatrice Gibson’s disorderly films

23 Nov 2014

Review: ‘Beatrice Gibson, F For Fibonacci’ at Laura Bartlett Gallery

Gibson’s disorderly video picks up and plays with William Gaddis’s biting satire of a book, ‘JR’

21 Nov 2014

Picking the picture: Magnum Contact Sheets at C/O Berlin

It’s riveting to see the choices and accidents that produced some of history’s most iconic photographs

20 Nov 2014

‘A Victorian Obsession: The Pérez Simón Collection’ at Leighton House

For the first time, the permanent collection at Leighton House is being cleared for a display of Victorian art

19 Nov 2014

Peder Balke’s Arctic landscapes in the National Gallery

A little known 19th-century Norwegian painter is being touted as a ‘forerunner of modernism’

18 Nov 2014

‘Unreliable Evidence’: Manet and contemporary art in the Mead Gallery

Manet’s ‘Execution of Maximilian’ is lost in the midst of so much contemporary art

17 Nov 2014

‘Another Life, Another World’: Paul Nash’s watercolours

Piano Nobile’s show introduces the ‘war artist’s peacetime work

17 Nov 2014

Muse Reviews: 16 November

Mannequins in the Fitzwilliam Museum; Cubism at the Met; chickens in the crypt

16 Nov 2014

Artes Mundi: international art in Cardiff

One participating artist will win the Artes Mundi Prize, but this year the focus is on the exhibition as a whole

13 Nov 2014

Mirrorcity: Glimpsing the digital revolution

Can art keep up with the digital revolution? Or is a show like the Hayward’s still a bit of a gimmick?

12 Nov 2014

‘AZIMUT/H’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene

11 Nov 2014

A history of Cubism in one collection: the Lauder gift at the Met

Eighty-one extraordinary works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger are now on show

10 Nov 2014

‘Silent Partners’: mannequins at the Fitzwilliam Museum

How have artists used mannequins and dolls to manipulate their audiences?

10 Nov 2014

Muse Reviews: 9 November

Freud’s lusty figurines; Hogarth’s lewd Londoners; Serra’s monumental sculptures and Anaïs Tondeur’s scientific mysteries

9 Nov 2014

Lost in Fathoms: Anaïs Tondeur

Tondeur’s work is rigorously scientific, but that doesn’t blunt its emotional impact

7 Nov 2014

Lust, gin and grime: ‘Hogarth’s London’ at the Cartoon Museum

If Victorian London belongs to Dickens, the Georgian city is Hogarth’s

7 Nov 2014

Impossible balance: Richard Serra’s sculptures at Gagosian Gallery

The complexity and integrity of Serra’s monumental work is mind-blowing