Luca Massimo Barbero
Director of the Institute of Art History, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice
Muse Reviews: 24 August
A roundup of the week’s reviews: including Syrian artists in London; Titian in Scotland; a riverbed in Denmark…
Gallery: ‘Roman in the Provinces’ at Yale University Art Gallery
Highlights from a new exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery
Gallery: ‘A Brief History of New York’ at the New-York Historical Society
Which objects would you choose to sum up a city like New York?
Gallery: ‘Portraiture Now’ at the NPG Washington
A new exhibition contends that portraiture doesn’t reflect the self; it constructs it
Art Outlook: 21 August
Major resignations at Gwangju Biennale and Art Basel; the Bin Laden’s Carrara quarry; and drama at the Jeff Koons retrospective
Gallery: ‘Make It New’ at the Clark
The Clark Institute is putting its new building to good use with an exhibition of abstract painting
Gallery: ‘African Cosmos’ at LACMA
How has the night sky influenced African art over the centuries?
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
Gallery: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ at the Cantor Arts Center
Satan, sin and the underworld…selected highlights
Gallery: ‘The Art of Marcel Ronay’ at the Lightbox, Woking
Ronay’s paintings and drawings from interwar Vienna build up a revealing portrait of a pleasure-seeking city
Book Competition
The Scottish National War Memorial, which stands within the walls of Edinburgh Castle, was built to commemorate the dead of the Great War
Art Outlook: 14 August
Ukraine museums move to protect their collections; auction houses move online; and robots move in to the Tate
Gallery: ‘That Obscure Object of Desire’ at Luxembourg & Dayan
Seven artists over eight decades who have explored the body as a fetishised, provocative object
‘He wasn’t edgy. He was honest’ – on the genius of David Lynch