Reviews

Sanctified and worldly subjects come together in the Scottish National Gallery’s exhibition of Venetian art

In focusing on recent innovations, this exhibition risks losing sight of some of the original allure of its subject

A new display of art from Captain Cook’s voyages is compelling, but doesn’t quite tell the whole story

How does an art scene evolve if its founding location becomes a war zone?

Perspectives on war: Marsden Hartley’s paintings from Berlin in WWI; and Mark Neville’s photographs and films from Helmand Province, Afghanistan

The characters in Walker’s works are caught in moments of enigmatic significance, at once inconsequential and charged with possible implication

Mark Neville’s films and photographs from Afghanistan reveal the strange banality of war

After three formative years in Berlin, Hartley returned to the US at the forefront of the avant-garde

The week’s reviews: art in lights in Times Square; magic lanterns at the Whitechapel Gallery; and an epiphany of sorts at the Sandham Memorial Chapel

Can the objects of political activism hold their own in a museum?

Love him or hate him, Stanley Spencer’s First World War paintings at Burghclere will win you over

A look at The Hague’s modern collections

What lies between still photography and the moving image?

Can art add sparkle to the USA’s advertising billboards?

Not all of the Mauritshuis’s treasures are actually in the Mauritshuis

A round-up of the week’s reviews: Hauser & Wirth Somerset; Rodin’s gift to the V&A; the Museum Bredius; and The Space Where I Am

There’s more to the Hague than the Mauritshuis

Blain|Southern’s group exhibition is about absence, but does the presence of so many big names get in the way?

Heading to Edinburgh? Here are six fine art exhibitions to visit while you’re out there…

What’s a stylish mega-gallery like Hauser & Wirth doing on an old farm in Somerset?

In 1914 Auguste Rodin gifted 18 sculptures to the V&A, in tribute to the British soldiers fighting alongside his own countrymen in the First World War

Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg; South American art in the Royal Academy; and the aptness of the Barbican as a venue for digital art…

Frances Spalding’s expertly curated exhibition places Woolf at the still centre of the Bloomsbury group

With global politics so dominant in the conversation surrounding Manifesta, there was a danger the art might become an irrelevant sideshow. Does it hold its own?