Reviews
A Good Start: START Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery
The inaugural edition of START Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery looks set to become a positive new addition to the art fair calendar
Reopening the jewel box: the Mauritshuis opens its doors
The Mauritshuis masterpieces are back in place in The Hague, and the newly-restored and extended building has opened its doors
Review: ‘Fame and Friendship’ at Waddesdon Manor
A jewel box of an exhibition that opens up important questions about celebrity, patronage and sculpture
Muse Reviews: 22 June
From folk art to minimalism… a round-up of recent reviews from the Muse Room
Dazzle ships and drawings in Liverpool
Do Nasreen Mohamedi’s drawings at Tate Liverpool better reflect modernist camouflage experiments that Carlos Cruz-Diez’s dazzle ship?
Exhibiting Architecture: Highlights from Venice
How do you exhibit architecture? These pavilions from Venice’s Architecture Biennale pass the test
Fundamentals: Venice Architecture Biennale
The 14th International Architecture Exhibition is open in Venice. Rem Koolhaas has made some alterations to the usual plan…
Rise and Fall: ‘Progress’ at The Foundling Museum
David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Grayson Perry and Jessie Brennan update Hogarth’s ‘A Rake’s Progress’
The model architect: touring Sir John Soane’s Museum
A number of the architect’s prized models are back on prominent display in Sir John Soane’s Museum
Review: ‘British Folk Art’ at Tate Britain
The charm and whimsy of ‘British Folk Art’ at Tate Britain isn’t at the expense of rigorous analysis
Review: ‘Other Primary Structures: Others 2’ at the Jewish Museum New York
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose… the Jewish Museum revisits its seminal 1966 exhibition of minimalist sculpture, again
Extraordinary structures: The Wind Tunnel Project in Farnborough
The reopening of Farnborough’s flight testing centre is one of the most unusual and remarkable art projects in recent years
Review: Adriana Varejão, ‘Carnivorous’ at Victoria Miro
Taken on their own, Varejão’s drawings lack the sinister, seductive appeal of her other work
Review: Kenneth Clark at Tate Britain
It won’t pull in the crowds, but this niche exhibition rewards those who do visit
Review: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy at the Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum celebrates what is arguably England’s most lyrical and seductive contribution to the fine arts in this focused show
Review: Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow at the New Art Centre
Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon’s collaborative glass sculptures are interestingly out of place in the Wiltshire countryside
Review: Tate’s ‘Matisse Live’
It was an interesting broadcast, but Tate’s tour around its Matisse show gained little from being ‘live’
Review: Baccio Bandinelli at the Bargello
Baccio Bandinelli is arguably the least loved major artist of the Renaissance. This is the ideal opportunity to reconsider his achievement
Review: Richard Long at Lisson Gallery
Richard Long continues to tread his own well-worn path, with a few ill-advised Romantic detours, in his latest London show
Review: ‘Phyllida Barlow: Fifty Years of Drawings’ at Hauser & Wirth
Phyllida Barlow’s drawings are every bit as good as her sculptures
Review: ‘Mondrian and Colour’ at Turner Contemporary
Piet Mondrian’s path to abstraction was a colourful one
A ‘Koonsian Adventure’: Jeff Koons at the Whitney
The Whitney says goodbye to its old building with balloons, by the world’s most expensive living artist…