Reviews
Review: Moroni’s self-conscious sitters at the Royal Academy
Moroni is a master of fine fabrics and awkward expressions
Muse Reviews: 23 November
Paul Nash’s watercolours; Manet and contemporary art; photographers’ contact sheets; and Beatrice Gibson’s disorderly films
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’
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
‘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
Peder Balke’s Arctic landscapes in the National Gallery
A little known 19th-century Norwegian painter is being touted as a ‘forerunner of modernism’
‘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
‘Another Life, Another World’: Paul Nash’s watercolours
Piano Nobile’s show introduces the ‘war artist’s peacetime work
Muse Reviews: 16 November
Mannequins in the Fitzwilliam Museum; Cubism at the Met; chickens in the crypt
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
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?
‘AZIMUT/H’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene
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
‘Silent Partners’: mannequins at the Fitzwilliam Museum
How have artists used mannequins and dolls to manipulate their audiences?
Muse Reviews: 9 November
Freud’s lusty figurines; Hogarth’s lewd Londoners; Serra’s monumental sculptures and Anaïs Tondeur’s scientific mysteries
Lost in Fathoms: Anaïs Tondeur
Tondeur’s work is rigorously scientific, but that doesn’t blunt its emotional impact
Lust, gin and grime: ‘Hogarth’s London’ at the Cartoon Museum
If Victorian London belongs to Dickens, the Georgian city is Hogarth’s
Impossible balance: Richard Serra’s sculptures at Gagosian Gallery
The complexity and integrity of Serra’s monumental work is mind-blowing
Review: Love, Lust and Longing in the Freud Museum
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Freud’s collection of antiquities is not for the easily abashed
The Musée Picasso reopens in Paris
It’s been a long and controversial refurbishment. Has it all been worth it?
A cloud of glass in the Bois de Boulogne: the Louis Vuitton Foundation
Despite Gehry’s dislike of the term, his building is a spectacle, as is the art
Review: Conrad Shawcross ‘The ADA Project’
Music, dancing robots, 19th-century algorithms: Shawcross’s latest project was ambitious, but was it worth it?
Muse Reviews: 2 November
Pierre Huyghe’s stange and beautiful work; Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’; and Schiele’s uneasy nudes
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Paul McCarthy’s obscene art world
The paintings presented in Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth are invariably obscene. Painted in the artist’s trademark palette –…