Reviews
‘This is Eggleston Country’
William Eggleston’s Whitney retrospective focuses on his famous 1970s colour photographs of America’s Deep South, but his black-and-white portraits are equally fine, writes Oliver Bradbury.
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BOOKS
Romantic bumpkins
Andrew Wilton welcomes an account of the idiosyncratically visionary art of Betty Swanwick.
BOOKS
A life of the Taj Mahal
Giles Tillotson has packed a lot into a short book on one of the world’s most famous buildings, writes Louise Nicholson.
Klimt in his setting
Martin Bailey visits a bold attempt to evoke Vienna’s most influential group exhibition of the early 20th century.
Out of the shadows
Far from playing second fiddle to Rembrandt, Jan Lievens was a virtuoso innovator in his own right throughout his long career, as an exhibition in Washington demonstrates, writes Jonathan Lopez.
Devotional states
The Royal Academy’s exhibition of Byzantine art has assembled over 300 works of breathtaking quality. But does it try hard enough to explain them, asks Angeliki Lymberopoulou?
Gateway of the gods
The perennial myths as well as the archaeological reality of ancient Babylon are celebrated in a British Museum exhibition, reviewed by Matthew Glanville.
Serious beauty
A magisterial survey at the Scuderie del Quirinale of the paintings of Giovanni Bellini strikes a surprisingly melancholy chord for a painter celebrated for his radiant use of colour, writes Tom Henry.
A river under the streets
Gillian Darley applauds the latest instalment of a heroic scholarly endeavour, The Survey of London, begun over a century ago.
Friends or foes?
This rich analysis of the often tense relationship between architects and engineers is admirably even-handed, writes Robert Thorne.