Reviews
So Much Munch
The Munch Museum and National Museum in Oslo recently joined forces to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Munch’s birth
No Alternative?
There are noble ideals (and some interesting artists) at work, but The Other Art Fair and Moniker’s crowded display doesn’t give the art a chance
Multiple Choice
With some excellent editions and a spacious layout, Multiplied at Christie’s South Kensington is a welcome respite from a frenetic week
Note PAD
PAD London continues to diversify, and there’s plenty to tempt visitors during this busiest of weeks
Darkness Visible
‘Paul Klee: Making Visible’ at Tate Modern is rigorous but incurably serious – is it the right setting for such complex and colourful work?
Art on the Mind
‘Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present’ at the Freud Museum is powerfully unsettling
Catalogue Photography
Dayanita Singh’s exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is curious curatorial blend: archive, library and gallery combined
The Stuff of Dreams
‘The Renaissance and Dream’ at the Musée du Luxembourg is nothing short of miraculous
S is for Spin-Off
Damien Hirst’s ABC book is cynical and culturally pointless, but it might just make a valuable impression regardless
Frida y…
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera make awkward companions at a nonetheless important Paris exhibition
Made in Stoke
The Spode factory in Stoke-on-Trent may have closed in 2008, but the British Ceramics Biennial looks to the future of the medium
Park to Pompidou
Pierre Huyghe’s work isn’t made for a gallery space, but an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou brings it inside anyway
Best is Yet to Come
The Hamburger Bahnhof looks at 20th-century attitudes to the future, but didn’t foresee some of the problems of its chosen approach
Shaw Thing
A new book on Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ memorial to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry sheds light on its legacy and shortcomings
Fashion Victim
An exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s fashion photography proves that he was at his best focusing on the nude
Show and Tell
Leonora Carrington may be a ‘literary painter’ and a surrealist storyteller, but we should not forget the formal qualities that underpin her best work
Propped Up Portraits
Carefully staged celebrity portraits by Jonathan Yeo and Michael Peto are on display at the National Portrait Gallery
Upritchard Uprooted
The mandrake screams when it is uprooted: Francis Upritchard’s strange uprooted outsiders seem to have given up the fight
Ideal Man
The Musée d’Orsay’s exhibition of male nudes is almost a great show, but it misses a timely opportunity to explore homoerotic sentiment in art
Revival: Laura Ashley
An exhibition at the Bowes Museum proves that Laura Ashley’s influence lives on
Little d’Angers
An exhibition at the Frick Collection ostensibly celebrates David d’Angers’ monumental sculpture, but his small medallions steal the show
The Pearls and Shells of Qatar
There’s history behind the V&A’s ‘Pearls’ exhibition, its partnership with the Qatar Museums Authority, and its aptly-named sponsor, Shell
Jordaens: Ardent Artifice
Jordaens has languished in the shadow of Rubens and Van Dyck, but an exhibition at the Petit Palais brings the artist back into the spotlight
Sex on Show
They were once kept under lock and key, and are still taboo in Japan, but both the British and Fitzwilliam Museums are celebrating shunga prints as art this autumn