Samuel Reilly is a freelance writer in Edinburgh and a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews.
Born 100 years ago this month, the critic exerted an outsize influence on artists and tastemakers alike – and he still has much to teach us
William Burrell came to own 23 paintings by the artist, but an exhibition in Glasgow shows that his contemporaries were just as appreciative
The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done
In the Turner Prize-winner’s first major show in Scotland in two decades, his sculptures are best viewed at something of a remove
As an exhibition at the Hunterian in Glasgow shows, the miniature sculptures of the Nigerian artist Justus Akeredolu are a major achievement
Notre Dame is to reopen, the Frick Collection is returning to Fifth Avenue and Scotland celebrates a pair of new or improved institutions
The marking of two seminal movements and a year-long celebration of Caspar David Friedrich combine scholarly heft with popular appeal
At a time when art fairs around the world are scaling back, the New York mainstay is still thinking big
From the ashes of Masterpiece rises an ambitious and even more selective successor
The famously irascible composer's collection is up for sale at Artcurial in Paris this month – and it's full of unexpected delights
