Reviews

The troubling sounds of five war-damaged instruments are heard for the first time in over 100 years

Kettle’s Yard showcases the wood engravings of Gwen Raverat, who made her name depicting the area around Cambridge

Edwin Smith’s photographs captured the end of a different age

Reid Kelley retells the minotaur story with rare and quite brilliant verve

Another informative episode, but why does it claim to be about war when the subject is given so little airtime?

If you thought that you knew John Constable’s art, you are going to be in for something of a surprise

From ancient Assyria to the Vienna Actionists…a round-up of recent reviews and interviews

The nuances of the new hang might be lost on the non-specialist, but overall the Wallace Collection’s refurbished gallery is magnificent

To really appreciate this body of work, leave your sense of propriety at the door

Fiona Banner’s extraordinary indoor Chinook will make you want duck and run

Andrew Graham-Dixon gives an engaging account of the modern artist and marketeer. But what about the war?

Great British artists in the limelight this week: ‘Late Turner’ at Tate; Christopher Dresser at the Fine Art Society; and Paul Nash on BBC Four

Will Gilbert and George’s Scapegoating Pictures have the same impact in Paris as in London?

An earnest girl in a Hackney pub once told me she was fascinated by motorway flyovers; ‘I just think they’re…

Dine turns Soviet-era lithographic stones into contemporary art

Hopper treads the line between documentary and art expertly

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the work of Paul Nash, whose career was deeply affected by the two World Wars

Overlooked for decades, Christopher Dresser is now recognised as one of the most influential figures in 19th-century design

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

Unfortunately these particular obscure objects make for a slightly incoherent show…

Inedible gardens and Jasper Johns’s regrets…our round-up of recent reviews

Why has the UK waited so long for an exhibition of this artist’s work?

Lucian Freud in Francis Bacon’s studio through Jasper Johns’s eyes: a small but powerful show