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Unknown Dimensions: ‘Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy’
An exhibition of drawings by Renaissance sculptors provides valuable insights into both mediums
Letter: December Apollo
The Rijkmuseum’s new Philips Wing has recently opened with an exhibition of modern photography
The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?
‘AZIMUT/H’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene
Odd Volumes
Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection A student-curated exhibition looks at how books have been variously transformed into, or…
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…
Review: Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum
Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female…
Modern Times
The Rijksmuseum inaugurates its new Philips Wing with its first exhibition of 20th-century photographs. The display, which is drawn from…
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…
Review: The British Library goes Gothic
‘Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination’, from Bram Stoker and to Wallace and Gromit
Physician, philanthropist, collector: ‘The Generous Georgian’ in three objects
The Foundling Museum introduces Dr Richard Mead
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…
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…
Review: ‘Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith’ at RIBA
Edwin Smith’s photographs captured the end of a different age
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
Muse Reviews: 28 September
From ancient Assyria to the Vienna Actionists…a round-up of recent reviews and interviews
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?
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…
The Week’s Muse: 20 September
Fountains, house museums and computer connoisseurs: a round-up of recent comment from the Muse Room
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…
Haunted Screens
German cinema in the 1920s The psychological paranoia of German Expressionist cinema is explored in a new exhibition at LACMA.…
Constable
The Making of a Master This show explores Constable’s influences and techniques, reuniting masterpieces with oil sketches. Works such as Study…
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
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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?