Reviews

How do you like your Georgians? William Kent’s designs come with a liberal coating of gilt

This exhibition about Clemenceau’s enthusiasm for Asian art is little short of revelatory

A round-up of the week’s reviews: murals, ruins, maps and charts, and contemporary responses to historic art…

The current Piranesi exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum raises interesting questions about original artworks and their reproductions

Yinka Shonibare’s work at the Barnes Foundation is both entertaining and deeply reflective

Nilima Sheikh’s extraordinary paintings need more introduction than they are given here

It’s been billed as ‘the broadest and most diverse’ Whitney Biennial to date, and the enormous variety of this year’s display is no bad thing

Some of Maastricht’s masterpieces are easily overlooked

We tend to forget how good art and design can be at communicating big ideas, and, it turns out, big data

Ruination is a condition of modern life. An exhibition at Tate Britain explores its enduring appeal

Restoration work on the painting has revealed some interesting facts, and debunked some myths

A round-up of the week’s reviews: Beautiful bronzes, Cézanne and the Modern, abstract drawings, Bill Viola, and Asian art

A roundup of highlights from Asia Week New York which runs from 14–22 March

Meditative and mysterious, Bill Viola’s video work asks timeless questions

Deacon stretches the concept of drawing well beyond the flat page

A small but exceptional display of bronzes from the Hill Collection

A round-up of the week’s reviews: women artists, kinetic art, Korea, spambots, keywords, the First World War and Futurism

The sheer scale of the Guggenheim’s display makes it impossible to box Futurism into its usual uneasy categories

This thoughtful and thought-provoking exhibition gives the war a human face

‘Keywords’ is a great idea for an exhibition, but it’s easy to lose some of the threads in the display

An exhibition of Korean art from the Joseon Dynasty has begun its year-long tour of the US

A round-up of the week’s reviews: dance, poetry, collage, textiles, installations and painting

Something had clearly gone very right at Art13 last year – Art14, its successor, was positively rammed on its opening night

This exhibition of the pioneering dancer and choreographer Loïe Fuller reveals her to be a thoroughly modern innovator