Reviews
SPASIBO: Davide Monteleone’s photos from Chechnya
Monteleone focuses on an apparently shiny, happy new reality…Yet the Italian photographer is playing a sophisticated game
Review: Paula Rego’s powerful pastels at Marlborough Fine Art
Playful and daring, Rego’s pastels and watercolours are a surprise
Review: The Brueghel Dynasty meets contemporary art
We’re fond of the Brueghels because they are rooted in their own time; so it’s odd that this ‘conversation’ works
Review: ‘Rembrandt: The Late Works’ at the National Gallery, London
Self-scrutiny, experimentation, intimacy and contemplation characterise the master’s final years
Review: Haunting new work by Steve McQueen at Thomas Dane Gallery
McQueen’s elegiac new work asks how we can memorialise a life
Review: Russian Avant-Garde Theatre at the V&A
The modernist designs at the V&A have an air of optimism about them, but we all know how the story ends
Muse Reviews: 19 October
Matisse goes to New York, the British Library goes Gothic, and Sotheby’s goes to Chatsworth
Beyond Limits: Sotheby’s sculpture park at Chatsworth
It is not just collectors who enjoy the encounter with sculpture in the landscape. The public seems just as keen
Outside the tents: Frieze Sculpture Park
One source of respite from the surrounding art fair frenzy is the Frieze Sculpture Park
Review: Nevinson’s prints at Osborne Samuel, London
Nevinson is best known for his war art, but took his work in surprising directions after 1918
Review: Sculptors’ Papers at the Whitechapel Gallery
A new exhibition illuminates the stories behind some of London’s most radical public sculptures
Review: The British Library goes Gothic
‘Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination’, from Bram Stoker and to Wallace and Gromit
‘Cutting directly into vivid colour’: Matisse arrives in New York
Matisse’s cut-outs have arrived in New York; and it’s a piece from MoMA’s own collection that steals the show
Muse Reviews: 12 October
Our round-up of recent reviews: Anthony Caro, Thomas Hart Benton, Rossetti’s Obsession and a generous Georgian
Reviving the Regionalists: Thomas Hart Benton at the Metropolitan Museum
The artist is the latest US Regionalist to be lauded in a major museum
Physician, philanthropist, collector: ‘The Generous Georgian’ in three objects
The Foundling Museum introduces Dr Richard Mead
Anthony Caro’s late, great sculptures at Annely Juda Fine Art
‘The Last Sculptures’ is a timely celebration of Caro’s late work, almost a year after his death
‘Rossetti’s Obsession: Images of Jane Morris’ at the William Morris Gallery
Jane Morris posed as numerous legendary characters for Rossetti: what of her own?
Muse Reviews: 5 October
Recent exhibition reviews, including Constable, Edwin Smith and a modern take on the minotaur myth
Review: Modern ruins steal the show in ‘Constructing Worlds’
Abandoned and neglected sites feature as prominently as those in construction in the Barbican’s photography exhibition
The Balfron Tower ‘pop-up’ puts Brutalism back in the spotlight
The reopening of Flat 130 makes Brutalism briefly accessible
Review: ‘Ming: 50 years that changed China’ at the British Museum
There was more to the Ming period than blue and white porcelain
‘She had no time for elitism, but was passionate about excellence’ – a tribute to Rosalind Savill