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Review: Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum
Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female…
Review: ‘Pierre Huyghe: In. Border. Deep’ at Hauser & Wirth, London
Huyghe’s notoriously uncategorisable works are both strange and beautiful
‘Face to Face’: the Clifford Chance collection at Sir John Soane’s Museum
An 18th-century architect’s house is a strange place for a law firm to show off some modern prints…but it works
Review: Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’ at the Imperial War Museum
Undead Sun explores the First World War’s nascent mechanics of propaganda, aerial warfare and camouflage
An Aura of Unease: Egon Schiele at the Courtauld Gallery
In Schiele’s vision, to observe, or to have a body is to have a difficulty
Review: Guggenheim Bilbao lets its collection speak for itself
The museum showcases some of its finest works in ‘The Art of Our Time’
SPASIBO: Davide Monteleone’s photos from Chechnya
Monteleone focuses on an apparently shiny, happy new reality…Yet the Italian photographer is playing a sophisticated game
Review: Paula Rego’s powerful pastels at Marlborough Fine Art
Playful and daring, Rego’s pastels and watercolours are a surprise
Review: The Brueghel Dynasty meets contemporary art
We’re fond of the Brueghels because they are rooted in their own time; so it’s odd that this ‘conversation’ works
Review: ‘Rembrandt: The Late Works’ at the National Gallery, London
Self-scrutiny, experimentation, intimacy and contemplation characterise the master’s final years
Review: Haunting new work by Steve McQueen at Thomas Dane Gallery
McQueen’s elegiac new work asks how we can memorialise a life
Review: Russian Avant-Garde Theatre at the V&A
The modernist designs at the V&A have an air of optimism about them, but we all know how the story ends
Muse Reviews: 19 October
Matisse goes to New York, the British Library goes Gothic, and Sotheby’s goes to Chatsworth
Beyond Limits: Sotheby’s sculpture park at Chatsworth
It is not just collectors who enjoy the encounter with sculpture in the landscape. The public seems just as keen
Outside the tents: Frieze Sculpture Park
One source of respite from the surrounding art fair frenzy is the Frieze Sculpture Park
Review: Nevinson’s prints at Osborne Samuel, London
Nevinson is best known for his war art, but took his work in surprising directions after 1918
Review: Sculptors’ Papers at the Whitechapel Gallery
A new exhibition illuminates the stories behind some of London’s most radical public sculptures
Review: The British Library goes Gothic
‘Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination’, from Bram Stoker and to Wallace and Gromit
‘Cutting directly into vivid colour’: Matisse arrives in New York
Matisse’s cut-outs have arrived in New York; and it’s a piece from MoMA’s own collection that steals the show
Muse Reviews: 12 October
Our round-up of recent reviews: Anthony Caro, Thomas Hart Benton, Rossetti’s Obsession and a generous Georgian
Reviving the Regionalists: Thomas Hart Benton at the Metropolitan Museum
The artist is the latest US Regionalist to be lauded in a major museum
Physician, philanthropist, collector: ‘The Generous Georgian’ in three objects
The Foundling Museum introduces Dr Richard Mead
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