Reviews
Review: Christopher Dresser at the Fine Art Society
Overlooked for decades, Christopher Dresser is now recognised as one of the most influential figures in 19th-century design
Review: ‘Late Turner’ at Tate Britain
It is not painting that is set free here, but the painter, liberated from the often questionable roles into which he has been conscripted in the name of British art
Review: ‘That Obscure Object of Desire’ at Luxembourg and Dayan, NYC
Unfortunately these particular obscure objects make for a slightly incoherent show…
Muse Reviews: 14 September
Inedible gardens and Jasper Johns’s regrets…our round-up of recent reviews
Review: ‘Max Weber’ at Ben Uri Gallery, London
Why has the UK waited so long for an exhibition of this artist’s work?
Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets’ at the Courtauld Gallery
Lucian Freud in Francis Bacon’s studio through Jasper Johns’s eyes: a small but powerful show
The greatest hits of London cartography: ‘Mapping London’ at Oxo Tower Wharf
Daniel Crouch Rare Books’ engaging display of maps old and new
Lookout: Folkestone Triennial turns the town into a gallery
Expect eco-friendly fish and chips, beach huts inspired by Hawksmoor, and crow’s nest hotels
Muse Reviews: 7 September
A round-up of the week’s reviews: including Kerry James Marshall, Al Jazeera’s Rebel Architecture and previews of Turner at Tate and Courbet at the Beyeler
Review: Al Jazeera’s Rebel Architecture
Al Jazeera’s ‘Rebel Architecture’ series challenges the ways in which we view the role of the architect
Review: ‘Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff’ at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Marshall tackles the history of slavery, race politics, black power or social emancipation in bold but ambiguous ways
Muse Reviews: 31 August
Jess, Robert Duncan and their circle; Charles Burchfield; Xavier Ribas; and young painters…
Aaron Curry and Andrew Brischler: the art of process
Two young artists argue for a return to paint and pencil
Review: Charles E Burchfield at the Brandywine River Museum
Burchfield’s fantastical watercolours deserve to be better known
Review: ‘Xavier Ribas: Nitrate’ at MACBA, Barcelona
Ribas’s work highlights the violence and arbitrariness of boundaries and frontiers
‘An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle’ at the PMCA
From the early 1950s, Robert Duncan and Jess established a nexus of literary and artistic life at their home in San Francisco
Muse Reviews: 24 August
A roundup of the week’s reviews: including Syrian artists in London; Titian in Scotland; a riverbed in Denmark…
Sacred and profane: ‘Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Art’
Sanctified and worldly subjects come together in the Scottish National Gallery’s exhibition of Venetian art
Review: ‘Multiple Exposures: Jewellery and Photography’ at MAD New York
In focusing on recent innovations, this exhibition risks losing sight of some of the original allure of its subject
Review: ‘The Art and Science of Exploration’ at the Queen’s House
A new display of art from Captain Cook’s voyages is compelling, but doesn’t quite tell the whole story
Review: ‘Syria’s Apex Generation’ at Ayyam Gallery
How does an art scene evolve if its founding location becomes a war zone?
Muse Reviews: 17 August
Perspectives on war: Marsden Hartley’s paintings from Berlin in WWI; and Mark Neville’s photographs and films from Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Enigmas: Caroline Walker’s lithographs and paintings
The characters in Walker’s works are caught in moments of enigmatic significance, at once inconsequential and charged with possible implication
Podcast
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Art, or Play? Breaker’s Yard at Sutton House
Daniel Lobb’s installation for children is a nice idea, but what’s it actually for? And can you eat it?