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A new Whitney for New York

The Whitney Museum of American Art is moving downtown, and its director Adam D. Weinberg has big plans for the new building and the collection

23 Apr 2015

Horace Walpole’s gaudy gothic fantasy is revived at Strawberry Hill

The private apartments have reopened, but where is all the art?

20 Apr 2015

London Diary: 19 April

Ravilious is bonkers and brilliant in Dulwich; Space sparkles at Daniel Blau; and is ‘Woman in Gold’ so bad it’s good?

19 Apr 2015

The forward-thinking director behind Frankfurt’s museums

Max Hollein discusses the challenges and rewards of running not one, but three, institutions

17 Apr 2015

Sonia Delaunay steps out of her husband’s shadow at Tate Modern

But let’s not ignore Robert entirely…

17 Apr 2015
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Bernini in Paris: Architecture at a Crossroad

In 1665 Louis XIV asked Bernini to design a new façade for the Louvre. What would it have meant for Paris if the Sun King had commissioned him?

13 Apr 2015

Muse Reviews: 12 April

Riotous Romans in Paris; the difficulty of Defining Beauty; getting back into Tracey Emin’s Bed

12 Apr 2015

Creating Realities

Encounters between art and cinema An exhibition at the Pinakothek der Modern and Museum Brandhorst in collaboration with the Goetz…

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
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Archival Impulse: an interview with Kader Attia

Hannah Gregory meets Kader Attia ahead of a major retrospective of his work in Lausanne

10 Apr 2015

The difficulty of ‘Defining Beauty’

The British Museum’s celebration of the body in ancient Greek art is more complicated than you might imagine – and better for it

9 Apr 2015

Powerful, humbling and relevant: Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ at MoMA

This important exhibition should be a wake-up call for today’s visitors

7 Apr 2015

London Diary: 5 April

Tracey Emin’s bed, Isa Genzken’s money, NS Harsha’s space cows, and Roger Ackling’s ‘Simple Gifts’

5 Apr 2015

Gallery: Poussin and God at the Louvre

Poussin’s religious paintings are in the spotlight at the Louvre this Spring

1 Apr 2015

Shadowland: John Skoog’s tribute to cinema’s golden age

Faded cinemas and enigmatic landscapes hark back to Hollywood’s heyday at Pilar Corrias

1 Apr 2015

The Passion according to Carol Rama

The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is presenting France’s first retrospective devoted to Italian artist Carol Rama.…

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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Poussin and God

To mark the 350th anniversary of the artist’s death, this exhibition reconsiders Poussin’s religious masterpieces and the way in which…

Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Frames in Focus: Sansovino Frames

So enduring was the reputation of architect and sculptor Jacopo Sansovino that in the late 19th century the term ‘Sansovino’…

National Gallery, London
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Muse Reviews: 29 March

Moore at YSP; Salon du Dessin highlights; Basquiat in Ontario; a bigger and better Drawing Biennial; and Dryden Goodwin’s enigmatic film

29 Mar 2015

Inquiry: Learning Lessons

Can museum education programmes have a more radical purpose?

27 Mar 2015

Gift-giving: Lynda Benglis at the Hepworth Wakefield

It is satisfying to see Benglis finally given proper recognition in the UK

27 Mar 2015

The Drawing Biennial is back

The fundraising exhibition and auction has emerged, somewhat paradoxically, as a highlight in the gallery’s programme

24 Mar 2015

London Diary: 22 March

Traces of the World Trade Centre in London; counterculturalism and Robert Fraser; and Hauser & Wirth’s space in Somerset

22 Mar 2015

Rubens in private

Click here for the director’s introduction The master portrays his family Even though Rubens is said to have disliked painting…

Rubenshuis, Antwerp
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