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Muse Reviews: 5 April
Christian Rosa’s ‘slacker abstraction’; Goya’s witches and old women; and John Skoog’s tribute to Hollywood’s golden age
Muse Reviews: 22 March
George Vasey recommends Raoul de Keyser’s work in Edinburgh; Vanessa Remington introduces the art of the garden at the Queen’s Gallery; and ‘Classicicity’ explores ancient and modern art in tandem
Georgia O’Keeffe: See What I See
Crystal Bridges unveils a newly acquired painting by Georgia O’Keeffe in this special focus exhibition. Jimson Weed/ White Flower No.…
Muse Reviews: 15 March
American cantaloupes at the Louvre; Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Detroit; Feminism and Niki de Saint Phalle
Muse Reviews: 8 March
John Gerrard’s bleak vision of technological evolution; photography and human rights; and the forgotten master of still life, Henri de Fromantiou
Leon Underwood: Figure & Rhythm
‘The exhibition, “Leon Underwood: Figure and Rhythm”, presents a long-overdue retrospective of the artist who has been described as ‘the precursor…
Henri de Fromantiou: Royal illusions
Henri de Fromantiou was born in Maastricht and enjoyed his heyday as the court painter in Potsdam, but his work…
Muse Reviews: 1 March
On Kawara at the Guggenheim New York; Mariana Castillo Deball at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Leon Underwood at Pallant House; Mackintosh at RIBA
Wally Neuzil: Her Life with Egon Schiele
The painting Portrait of Wally Neuzil, housed by the Vienna Leopold Museum, is among the most well-known works by Egon…
Sculpture Victorious
This exhibition explores how and why sculpture proliferated in the Victorian era. Expect rare and impressive objects, images of power, and a…
J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free
This is the first major survey of Turner’s late period, dating from 1835 to 1851. Among the 150 works on…
Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840–60
The salted paper print was an early form of photograph with a distinctive textured finish. Despite being pioneered in Britain, the short-lived medium has…
Muse Reviews: 22 February
Recent exhibition reviews and previews; from sultans, to Sturtevant, to salted paper prints…
Victorian Revivals
Has London ever had such a thirst for Victorian art? A feature from the February issue of Apollo
The Lady Vanishes: ‘Madame Cézanne’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
No pairing of artist and muse was more complicated, ambivalent, or more richly productive
Pure abstraction: ‘Sotto Voce’ and the appeal of the abstract white relief
London’s Dominique Lévy Gallery looks again at the 20th-century trend
Shatter Rupture Break
A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago reveals how various artists turned repeatedly to the idea of fragmentation,…
Review: Agostino Bonalumi at Mazzoleni Art, London
Bonalumi was a pivotal figure in post-war Italian abstraction; finally he’s getting the attention he deserves
Walter Liedtke: 1945–2015
The curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was killed in the Metro-North Valhalla train crash on Tuesday
Honesty or artifice? Self-portraits at Turner Contemporary
Female artists are well represented in this show; a deliberate strategy that prompts a more critical questioning of the genre
Muse Reviews: 1 February
Flesh and sex – the legacies of Rubens and Sade; two views of the 20th century’s torn and tattered art; and the story of Lancashire’s philanthropic industrialists
Jenny Saville rethinks the ‘Rubenesque’ at the Royal Academy
‘La Peregrina’ is like a dip in icy water after Rubens’ opulent works
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When was the avant-garde?
The term ‘avant-garde’ has shifted meaning from its military roots to the byword for artistic innovation. How should we apply it to art history?