Muse Reviews: 18 January
'Unseen' at the Courtauld Gallery; Blake at the Ashmolean; Moroni at the Royal Academy; and sculptors' drawings in Boston
'Unseen' at the Courtauld Gallery; Blake at the Ashmolean; Moroni at the Royal Academy; and sculptors' drawings in Boston
An exhibition of drawings by Renaissance sculptors provides valuable insights into both mediums
The Rijkmuseum's new Philips Wing has recently opened with an exhibition of modern photography
An extraordinary quantity of post-war Italian art has been exhibited, sold and written about this year. What's behind the rich pickings?
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?
In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene
Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female...
'Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination', from Bram Stoker and to Wallace and Gromit
The Foundling Museum introduces Dr Richard Mead
Edwin Smith's photographs captured the end of a different age
If you thought that you knew John Constable’s art, you are going to be in for something of a surprise
From ancient Assyria to the Vienna Actionists...a round-up of recent reviews and interviews
As the Art Fund appeals to save Wedgwood, will anything be done to secure one of Turner's major works for a national collection when it goes up for sale at Sotheby's?
Fountains, house museums and computer connoisseurs: a round-up of recent comment from the Muse Room
An earnest girl in a Hackney pub once told me she was fascinated by motorway flyovers; ‘I just think they’re the most awesome things. Don’t you think?’ For the following half hour she described some of her favourites and the features which endeared them to her whilst I tried hard to remember any ever making […]
It is not painting that is set free here, but the painter, liberated from the often questionable roles into which he has been conscripted in the name of British art
A round-up of the week's reviews: including Kerry James Marshall, Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture and previews of Turner at Tate and Courbet at the Beyeler
A roundup of the week's reviews: including Syrian artists in London; Titian in Scotland; a riverbed in Denmark...
Sanctified and worldly subjects come together in the Scottish National Gallery's exhibition of Venetian art
'Degas / Cassatt' gives and insight into the friendship and influence of these two celebrated artists