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Ancient Contemporary: Hauser & Wirth Somerset
What’s a stylish mega-gallery like Hauser & Wirth doing on an old farm in Somerset?
The Rodin Gift to the V&A: a centenary celebration
In 1914 Auguste Rodin gifted 18 sculptures to the V&A, in tribute to the British soldiers fighting alongside his own countrymen in the First World War
Muse Reviews: 27 July
Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg; South American art in the Royal Academy; and the aptness of the Barbican as a venue for digital art…
Review: ‘Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision’ at the National Portrait Gallery
Frances Spalding’s expertly curated exhibition places Woolf at the still centre of the Bloomsbury group
Review: Manifesta 10 in St Petersburg
With global politics so dominant in the conversation surrounding Manifesta, there was a danger the art might become an irrelevant sideshow. Does it hold its own?
Review: ‘Radical Geometry’, South American art at the Royal Academy, London
The diversity of South American abstraction is one of its main strengths
More than ‘women artists’: Dorothea Tanning and Shelagh Wakely in London
Two London shows worth visiting this summer
Out of time: ‘Digital Revolution’ at the Barbican
How is the rapidly changing world of digital technology affecting culture?
Muse Reviews: 20 July
Italian art in London; architectural success-stories; and a deliberately boring biennale…
Review: Mel Bochner ‘Strong Language’ at the Jewish Museum
Bochner’s piled-up word paintings at the Jewish Museum are strangely anxiety-provoking
Review: ‘Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture’ at the Design Museum
Kahn’s designs have a sense of grandeur unmatched by most modernist buildings
Review: ‘Giulio Paolini: To Be or Not to Be’ at the Whitechapel Gallery
Paolini’s work isn’t well known in the UK, but it remains as relevant as ever
Review: ‘Gerardo Dottori: The Futurist View’ at the Estorick Collection
Even in his aeropainting phase Dottori was committed to the pastoral
Shells, rocks and follies: the Serpentine Pavilion 2014 responds well to its location
Smiljan Radić’s design sits beautifully within Hyde Park
Muse Reviews: 13 July
Gobelins tapestries; Franz West’s strange monsters; Lygia Clark’s body nostalgia; and the 1966 World Cup final…
Deconstructing ‘Jerusalem’: Paul Pfeiffer revisits the 1966 World Cup final
With the World Cup final fast approaching, it’s a good time to reconsider this particular collective myth
Review: ‘The Abandonment of Art’, Lygia Clark at MoMA New York
MoMA has mounted a welcome retrospective of Clark’s challenging and changing art
Review: Franz West: Where is my Eight?
Curator Eva Badura-Triska has managed to preserve the spirit of freedom in the late artist’s work
Review: Sumptuous 18th-century tapestries at the Galerie des Gobelins
This display reveals how the Gobelins tapestry manufactory in France flourished through the 18th century
Muse Reviews: 6 July
Scotland’s contemporary GENERATION, London Art Week, and Dan Cruickshank on the BBC: a round-up of reviews and interviews
Impressed: Courtauld students explore contemporary prints
Courtauld students have put together a thoughtful exhibition alongside the gallery’s summer show
Majesty and Mortar: Palaces on the BBC
The final episode of Dan Cruickshank’s enthusiastic and engaging tour of ‘Britain’s Great Palaces’ airs on BBC4 tonight
Review: ‘Mario Schifano 1960−67’ at Luxembourg & Dayan
Focusing on seven key years in Schifano’s incessant artistic metamorphosis
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