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Unknown Dimensions: ‘Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy’

An exhibition of drawings by Renaissance sculptors provides valuable insights into both mediums

12 Jan 2015

Letter: December Apollo

The Rijkmuseum’s new Philips Wing has recently opened with an exhibition of modern photography

8 Dec 2014

London’s Italian art invasion

An extraordinary quantity of post-war Italian art has been exhibited, sold and written about this year. What’s behind the rich pickings?

5 Dec 2014

The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere

Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?

2 Dec 2014

‘AZIMUT/H’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene

11 Nov 2014

Odd Volumes

Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection A student-curated exhibition looks at how books have been variously transformed into, or…

Yale University Art Gallery
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El Greco in New York

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco, the Met will display nine of the artist’s paintings…

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Review: Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum

Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female…

31 Oct 2014

Modern Times

The Rijksmuseum inaugurates its new Philips Wing with its first exhibition of 20th-century photographs. The display, which is drawn from…

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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The City Lost and Found

Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980 How did artists turn the chaotic transformations of these three big cities into…

Art Institute Chicago
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Review: The British Library goes Gothic

‘Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination’, from Bram Stoker and to Wallace and Gromit

14 Oct 2014

ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow

This exhibition surveys the experimental mid-century group of German artists, Zero, and the international network of more than 40 artists…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Egon Schiele – Jenny Saville

Schiele and Saville’s reputations are both built on their uncompromising handling of the human figure in art. For the first time, the…

Kunsthaus Zürich
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Review: ‘Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith’ at RIBA

Edwin Smith’s photographs captured the end of a different age

30 Sep 2014

Review: ‘Constable: The Making of a Master’ at the V&A

If you thought that you knew John Constable’s art, you are going to be in for something of a surprise

29 Sep 2014

Muse Reviews: 28 September

From ancient Assyria to the Vienna Actionists…a round-up of recent reviews and interviews

28 Sep 2014
Timothy Spall as J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh's biopic of the artist, 'Mr. Turner' (2014), Courtesy Entertainment One

Editor’s Letter: Turner mania

As the Art Fund appeals to save Wedgwood, will anything be done to secure one of Turner’s major works for a national collection when it goes up for sale at Sotheby’s?

25 Sep 2014

Rubens and his Legacy

A collaboration between BOZAR, London’s Royal Academy of Arts, and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, this exhibition…

BOZAR, Brussels
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The Week’s Muse: 20 September

Fountains, house museums and computer connoisseurs: a round-up of recent comment from the Muse Room

20 Sep 2014

Review: Bernd and Hilla Becher at Sprüth Magers

An earnest girl in a Hackney pub once told me she was fascinated by motorway flyovers; ‘I just think they’re…

19 Sep 2014

Haunted Screens

German cinema in the 1920s The psychological paranoia of German Expressionist cinema is explored in a new exhibition at LACMA.…

LACMA
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Constable

The Making of a Master This show explores Constable’s influences and techniques, reuniting masterpieces with oil sketches. Works such as Study…

Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Review: ‘Late Turner’ at Tate Britain

It is not painting that is set free here, but the painter, liberated from the often questionable roles into which he has been conscripted in the name of British art

15 Sep 2014