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…
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
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?
Review: CRW Nevinson’s ‘Rebel Visions’ at the Barber Institute
A small but powerful collection of Nevinson’s visions of war
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
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
The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?