Reviews
A Woven Palette: ‘Spectacular Rubens’ at the Getty
Designed by Rubens at the height of his career, these exuberant tapestries are remarkably painterly
Muse Reviews: 14 December
Tapestries in the Prado, the Getty and the Met; Deller’s take on Warhol and Morris; and immersive works by both Pipilotti Rist and Moholy-Nagy
Cooper Hewitt Museum reopens in New York
Thanks to a meticulous and inventive renovation project, the US now has a really good national museum of design
Pipilotti Rist’s enveloping videos at Hauser & Wirth
Rist’s work is overtly sensual, and places the visitor’s own body at its centre
Moholy-Nagy’s pioneering multi-sensory art
Today’s museums work hard to develop interactive, immersive and sensory displays: but Moholy-Nagy got there first
The Prado, the Getty and the Metropolitan Museum celebrate the art of tapestry
Now is the time to see some of the most spectacular tapestries around
Go With The Flow: William Morris and Andy Warhol at Modern Art Oxford
All three artists emerge as experts in self-branding. On the whole, I’m sold
Muse Reviews: 7 December
Moroni’s self-conscious sitters; Warhol’s ephemera; and Sugimoto’s deceptive diaoramas
Mapping the contemporary: Bloomberg New Contemporaries vs. Tomorrow: London
Last week brought two shows to London that claim to present the scope of new contemporary art being made in…
Review: ‘Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life’ at Pace Gallery, London
Sugimoto’s photographs of museum dioramas draws attention to the deceptive potential of photography and art
Review: ‘Basic Design: A Revolution in Art Education’ at the Hatton Gallery
Art education has come a long way since the 1950s. Is the Basic Design ‘revolution’ a little dated?
Review: CRW Nevinson’s ‘Rebel Visions’ at the Barber Institute
A small but powerful collection of Nevinson’s visions of war
From the mass market to the museum: ‘Warhol Mania’ in Montreal
Warhol not only made art about mass consumption, he made art for mass consumption too
Review: Moroni’s self-conscious sitters at the Royal Academy
Moroni is a master of fine fabrics and awkward expressions
Muse Reviews: 23 November
Paul Nash’s watercolours; Manet and contemporary art; photographers’ contact sheets; and Beatrice Gibson’s disorderly films
Review: ‘Beatrice Gibson, F For Fibonacci’ at Laura Bartlett Gallery
Gibson’s disorderly video picks up and plays with William Gaddis’s biting satire of a book, ‘JR’
Picking the picture: Magnum Contact Sheets at C/O Berlin
It’s riveting to see the choices and accidents that produced some of history’s most iconic photographs
‘A Victorian Obsession: The Pérez Simón Collection’ at Leighton House
For the first time, the permanent collection at Leighton House is being cleared for a display of Victorian art
Peder Balke’s Arctic landscapes in the National Gallery
A little known 19th-century Norwegian painter is being touted as a ‘forerunner of modernism’
‘Unreliable Evidence’: Manet and contemporary art in the Mead Gallery
Manet’s ‘Execution of Maximilian’ is lost in the midst of so much contemporary art
‘Another Life, Another World’: Paul Nash’s watercolours
Piano Nobile’s show introduces the ‘war artist’s peacetime work
Muse Reviews: 16 November
Mannequins in the Fitzwilliam Museum; Cubism at the Met; chickens in the crypt
Artes Mundi: international art in Cardiff
One participating artist will win the Artes Mundi Prize, but this year the focus is on the exhibition as a whole
The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?