Reviews

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

Mirrorcity: Glimpsing the digital revolution

Can art keep up with the digital revolution? Or is a show like the Hayward's still a bit of a gimmick?

‘AZIMUT/H’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene

A history of Cubism in one collection: the Lauder gift at the Met

Eighty-one extraordinary works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger are now on show

‘Silent Partners’: mannequins at the Fitzwilliam Museum

How have artists used mannequins and dolls to manipulate their audiences?

Muse Reviews: 9 November

Freud's lusty figurines; Hogarth's lewd Londoners; Serra's monumental sculptures and Anaïs Tondeur's scientific mysteries

Lost in Fathoms: Anaïs Tondeur

Tondeur's work is rigorously scientific, but that doesn't blunt its emotional impact

Lust, gin and grime: ‘Hogarth’s London’ at the Cartoon Museum

If Victorian London belongs to Dickens, the Georgian city is Hogarth’s

Impossible balance: Richard Serra’s sculptures at Gagosian Gallery

The complexity and integrity of Serra's monumental work is mind-blowing

Review: Love, Lust and Longing in the Freud Museum

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Freud's collection of antiquities is not for the easily abashed

The Musée Picasso reopens in Paris

It's been a long and controversial refurbishment. Has it all been worth it?

A cloud of glass in the Bois de Boulogne: the Louis Vuitton Foundation

Despite Gehry's dislike of the term, his building is a spectacle, as is the art

Review: Conrad Shawcross ‘The ADA Project’

Music, dancing robots, 19th-century algorithms: Shawcross's latest project was ambitious, but was it worth it?

Muse Reviews: 2 November

Pierre Huyghe's stange and beautiful work; Jane and Louise Wilson's 'Undead Sun'; and Schiele's uneasy nudes

Paul McCarthy’s obscene art world

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