Reviews
Review: ‘Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff’ at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Marshall tackles the history of slavery, race politics, black power or social emancipation in bold but ambiguous ways
Muse Reviews: 31 August
Jess, Robert Duncan and their circle; Charles Burchfield; Xavier Ribas; and young painters…
Aaron Curry and Andrew Brischler: the art of process
Two young artists argue for a return to paint and pencil
Review: Charles E Burchfield at the Brandywine River Museum
Burchfield’s fantastical watercolours deserve to be better known
Review: ‘Xavier Ribas: Nitrate’ at MACBA, Barcelona
Ribas’s work highlights the violence and arbitrariness of boundaries and frontiers
‘An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle’ at the PMCA
From the early 1950s, Robert Duncan and Jess established a nexus of literary and artistic life at their home in San Francisco
Muse Reviews: 24 August
A roundup of the week’s reviews: including Syrian artists in London; Titian in Scotland; a riverbed in Denmark…
Sacred and profane: ‘Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Art’
Sanctified and worldly subjects come together in the Scottish National Gallery’s exhibition of Venetian art
Review: ‘Multiple Exposures: Jewellery and Photography’ at MAD New York
In focusing on recent innovations, this exhibition risks losing sight of some of the original allure of its subject
Review: ‘The Art and Science of Exploration’ at the Queen’s House
A new display of art from Captain Cook’s voyages is compelling, but doesn’t quite tell the whole story
Review: ‘Syria’s Apex Generation’ at Ayyam Gallery
How does an art scene evolve if its founding location becomes a war zone?
Muse Reviews: 17 August
Perspectives on war: Marsden Hartley’s paintings from Berlin in WWI; and Mark Neville’s photographs and films from Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Enigmas: Caroline Walker’s lithographs and paintings
The characters in Walker’s works are caught in moments of enigmatic significance, at once inconsequential and charged with possible implication
Review: Mark Neville’s Helmand Work at the IWM London
Mark Neville’s films and photographs from Afghanistan reveal the strange banality of war
Review: ‘Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–15’ at LACMA
After three formative years in Berlin, Hartley returned to the US at the forefront of the avant-garde
Muse Reviews: 10 August
The week’s reviews: art in lights in Times Square; magic lanterns at the Whitechapel Gallery; and an epiphany of sorts at the Sandham Memorial Chapel
Review: ‘Disobedient Objects’ at the V&A
Can the objects of political activism hold their own in a museum?
Stanley Spencer’s Masterpiece: The Sandham Memorial Chapel
Love him or hate him, Stanley Spencer’s First World War paintings at Burghclere will win you over
The Hague’s Hidden Treasures: Gemeentemuseum den Haag and the Het Paleis
A look at The Hague’s modern collections
‘Twixt Two Worlds’: spirit photography and magic lanterns at the Whitechapel Gallery
What lies between still photography and the moving image?
A good advert for American art? Art Everywhere in the US
Can art add sparkle to the USA’s advertising billboards?
The Hague’s Hidden Treasures: Prince William V’s Picture Gallery
Not all of the Mauritshuis’s treasures are actually in the Mauritshuis
Muse Reviews: 3 August
A round-up of the week’s reviews: Hauser & Wirth Somerset; Rodin’s gift to the V&A; the Museum Bredius; and The Space Where I Am
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