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Muse Reviews: 16 November
Mannequins in the Fitzwilliam Museum; Cubism at the Met; chickens in the crypt
Artes Mundi: international art in Cardiff
One participating artist will win the Artes Mundi Prize, but this year the focus is on the exhibition as a whole
Mirrorcity: Glimpsing the digital revolution
Can art keep up with the digital revolution? Or is a show like the Hayward’s still a bit of a gimmick?
‘AZIMUT/H’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene
A history of Cubism in one collection: the Lauder gift at the Met
Eighty-one extraordinary works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger are now on show
‘Silent Partners’: mannequins at the Fitzwilliam Museum
How have artists used mannequins and dolls to manipulate their audiences?
Muse Reviews: 9 November
Freud’s lusty figurines; Hogarth’s lewd Londoners; Serra’s monumental sculptures and Anaïs Tondeur’s scientific mysteries
Lost in Fathoms: Anaïs Tondeur
Tondeur’s work is rigorously scientific, but that doesn’t blunt its emotional impact
Lust, gin and grime: ‘Hogarth’s London’ at the Cartoon Museum
If Victorian London belongs to Dickens, the Georgian city is Hogarth’s
Impossible balance: Richard Serra’s sculptures at Gagosian Gallery
The complexity and integrity of Serra’s monumental work is mind-blowing
Review: Love, Lust and Longing in the Freud Museum
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Freud’s collection of antiquities is not for the easily abashed
The Musée Picasso reopens in Paris
It’s been a long and controversial refurbishment. Has it all been worth it?
A cloud of glass in the Bois de Boulogne: the Louis Vuitton Foundation
Despite Gehry’s dislike of the term, his building is a spectacle, as is the art
Review: Conrad Shawcross ‘The ADA Project’
Music, dancing robots, 19th-century algorithms: Shawcross’s latest project was ambitious, but was it worth it?
Muse Reviews: 2 November
Pierre Huyghe’s stange and beautiful work; Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’; and Schiele’s uneasy nudes
Review: Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum
Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female…
Review: ‘Pierre Huyghe: In. Border. Deep’ at Hauser & Wirth, London
Huyghe’s notoriously uncategorisable works are both strange and beautiful
‘Face to Face’: the Clifford Chance collection at Sir John Soane’s Museum
An 18th-century architect’s house is a strange place for a law firm to show off some modern prints…but it works
Review: Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’ at the Imperial War Museum
Undead Sun explores the First World War’s nascent mechanics of propaganda, aerial warfare and camouflage
An Aura of Unease: Egon Schiele at the Courtauld Gallery
In Schiele’s vision, to observe, or to have a body is to have a difficulty
Review: Guggenheim Bilbao lets its collection speak for itself
The museum showcases some of its finest works in ‘The Art of Our Time’
SPASIBO: Davide Monteleone’s photos from Chechnya
Monteleone focuses on an apparently shiny, happy new reality…Yet the Italian photographer is playing a sophisticated game
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