Reviews
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
Anthony Caro’s late, great sculptures at Annely Juda Fine Art
‘The Last Sculptures’ is a timely celebration of Caro’s late work, almost a year after his death
‘Rossetti’s Obsession: Images of Jane Morris’ at the William Morris Gallery
Jane Morris posed as numerous legendary characters for Rossetti: what of her own?
Muse Reviews: 5 October
Recent exhibition reviews, including Constable, Edwin Smith and a modern take on the minotaur myth
Review: Modern ruins steal the show in ‘Constructing Worlds’
Abandoned and neglected sites feature as prominently as those in construction in the Barbican’s photography exhibition
The Balfron Tower ‘pop-up’ puts Brutalism back in the spotlight
The reopening of Flat 130 makes Brutalism briefly accessible
Review: ‘Ming: 50 years that changed China’ at the British Museum
There was more to the Ming period than blue and white porcelain
The sound of war: Susan Philipsz’ Broken Ensemble at Eastside Projects
The troubling sounds of five war-damaged instruments are heard for the first time in over 100 years
Small town life: Gwen Raverat at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Kettle’s Yard showcases the wood engravings of Gwen Raverat, who made her name depicting the area around Cambridge
Review: ‘Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith’ at RIBA
Edwin Smith’s photographs captured the end of a different age
Modern Myth: Mary Reid Kelley’s ‘Swinburne’s Pasiphae’
Reid Kelley retells the minotaur story with rare and quite brilliant verve
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?