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Barbara Hepworth: Within the Landscape

‘Barbara Hepworth: Within the Landscape’ at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal examines the sculptor’s artistic and personal identification with…

Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
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Review: ‘Fame and Friendship’ at Waddesdon Manor

A jewel box of an exhibition that opens up important questions about celebrity, patronage and sculpture

22 Jun 2014

The Week’s Muse: 21 June

The Venice Architecture Biennale, the Battle of Orgreave, digital catalogues, portrait busts and a critique of Richard Mosse… comment from the Muse Room

21 Jun 2014

Cover Story: June Apollo

Alexander Pope seems to live on in Roubiliac’s magnificent portrait bust, as if the man and his mind somehow inhabited the marble

19 Jun 2014

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

16 Jun 2014

Gallery: ‘British And German Art After 1945’ at the Sprengel Museum Hannover

Some highlights from the upcoming exhibition

11 Jun 2014

British Folk Art

This summer, Tate Britain will celebrate the diversity of British folk art, with an unprecedented display of objects that will…

Tate Britain, London
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Review: ‘Mondrian and Colour’ at Turner Contemporary

Piet Mondrian’s path to abstraction was a colourful one

3 Jun 2014

Gallery: Hendrick Goltzius and Dutch Mannerist Printmaking

Highlights from the Städel Museum’s next exhibition

28 May 2014

Gallery: Georges Seurat at the Kröller-Müller Museum

‘Le Chahut’ and ‘Le Cirque’, Seurat’s last two large figure pieces, are among the highlights in this new exhibition

21 May 2014

Review: ‘The Power of the Sea’ at the Royal West of England Academy

Interest in maritime art ebbs and flows, but it seems that we have hit a new wave

19 May 2014

Gallery: Highlights from ‘Mondrian and Colour’ at Turner Contemporary

Figurative and abstract highlights from the upcoming Mondrian exhibition in Margate

19 May 2014

Review: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, ‘The Strange City’ (Monumenta 2014)

The Kabakovs’ ‘Strange City’ at the Grand Palais isn’t completely alien

17 May 2014

Muse Reviews: 11 May

A round-up of the week’s reviews, including Rodin, John Piper, Yinka Shonibare and Joanna Hogg

11 May 2014

Degas/Cassatt

Degas’ influence on Mary Cassatt is well documented, less so the way Cassatt shaped his artistic production. Focusing on the…

National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Gallery: Highlights from ‘Degas / Cassatt’

A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art takes a closer look at Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt’s productive artistic relationship

5 May 2014

Gallery: ‘Comics Unmasked’ at the British Library

A handful of the British comics currently on display at the British Library

2 May 2014

Gallery: ‘To Egypt! The Travels of Max Slevogt and Paul Klee’

A gallery of highlights from the latest exhibition at the Albertinum, Dresden

30 Apr 2014

Comics Unmasked

Art and Anarchy in the UK ‘Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy at the UK’ seeks to raise the profile and…

British Library, London
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Muse Reviews: 27 April

A round-up of the week’s reviews: Hindu-Buddhist sculpture, Yelena Popova, Richard Wilson, and contemporary art in Azerbaijan

27 Apr 2014

Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014: Shortlist Announced

The Art Fund Museum of the Year 2014 shortlist has been announced

25 Apr 2014

Lichtbilder

A history of photography The Staedel Museum is marking 175 years since the invention of photography with a display of…

Staedel Museum, Frankfurt
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Interview: Polly Bielecka discusses ‘Sculpture in the Home’ at Pangolin

In the 1940s and ’50s, a series of touring exhibitions brought modern British sculpture in from the cold

13 Apr 2014

Highlights: ‘Somewhat Abstract’ at Nottingham Contemporary

Bridget Riley and Francis Bacon feature in this exhibition of work from the Arts Council Collection

10 Apr 2014