Reviews

Gift-giving: Lynda Benglis at the Hepworth Wakefield

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

27 Mar 2015

Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin

Dryden Goodwin’s enigmatic film grapples with history and identity

26 Mar 2015

There’s more to Moore than his monumental sculptures

‘Back to A Land’ at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks at the finer points of Moore’s sculptural practice

25 Mar 2015

‘Now’s the Time’: Basquiat’s work at the Art Gallery of Ontario is still relevant

Few artists have garnered as much mystique in life and death as Jean Michel Basquiat

24 Mar 2015

TEFAF Treasures

There are hundreds of exceptional artworks adorning the stands at TEFAF Maastricht this year. Everyone will have their own favourites,…

22 Mar 2015

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

22 Mar 2015

Raoul De Keyser at Inverleith House

De Keyser’s great talent is to keep oppositional ideas in the balance

19 Mar 2015

TEFAF Treasures

Personal favourites from Maastricht, including an ancient Egyptian fragment and an unfinished old master painting

17 Mar 2015

A K Dolven explores Norwegian landscapes in Birmingham

Peder Balke’s sublime paintings of Norway off-set the contemporary artist’s own exploratory work

17 Mar 2015

What not to miss during Asia Week New York

This may be hard to believe, but not all the best art is in Maastricht this week.

16 Mar 2015

Muse Reviews: 15 March

American cantaloupes at the Louvre; Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Detroit; Feminism and Niki de Saint Phalle

15 Mar 2015

The BBC’s Big Painting Challenge is not the publicity British art needs

Is it better to throw in your lot with dozens of other Sunday painters than go to art school?

12 Mar 2015

American painting in Paris: the Louvre’s focus on US still-lifes

The genre took a while to catch on in America, but when artists did take up still-life painting they made it their own

11 Mar 2015

Feminine Critique: Niki de Saint Phalle at the Guggenheim Bilbao

From shooting pictures to colourful ‘Nanas’, Saint Phalle’s work tackles feminist issues head on

8 Mar 2015

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

8 Mar 2015

The View from Earth: John Gerrard at Thomas Dane

As a study in hyperreality, John Gerrard’s digital reconstruction of a Google data farm is utterly unnerving

5 Mar 2015

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

1 Mar 2015

Review: ‘Human Rights Human Wrongs’ at The Photographers’ Gallery

Can photography influence social and political events, or just record them?

28 Feb 2015

Creativity and Constraints: Mackintosh’s architectural drawings at RIBA

RIBA’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition is very much an architect’s show, consisting almost entirely of architectural drawings and watercolours. Only two…

27 Feb 2015

Mariana Castillo Deball explores the rich history of Berlin

First and foremost Mariana Castillo Deball is a biographer of objects

26 Feb 2015

Review: Isabelle Cornaro at Spike Island

Objects become images, images become objects, in the artist’s latest show

25 Feb 2015

Time, Place, Date: On Kawara’s work at the Guggenheim NYC

On Kawara is famous for his date paintings, but he had other ways of marking and thinking about time

24 Feb 2015

Muse Reviews: 22 February

Recent exhibition reviews and previews; from sultans, to Sturtevant, to salted paper prints…

22 Feb 2015

Now you see her, now you don’t: Sturtevant at MoMA

Last chance to visit New York’s exhibition of conceptual copycat art

20 Feb 2015