The real O.C. now has a museum that provides a world-class welcome
The new Orange County Museum of Art has a stellar collection from California and a glitzy exterior to match
Nikolai Astrup shines outside Norway
The Norwegian painter gets some overdue recognition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gertrude Hermes gets a room of her own
The sculptor Gertrude Hermes has often been overshadowed by her contemporaries, but the first major exhibition of her work in 30 years is a chance to see her more clearly
The Whitworth reopens
Great art, thoughtful curation and a snazzy café: Manchester’s £15 million redevelopment project is a great success
Go With The Flow: William Morris and Andy Warhol at Modern Art Oxford
All three artists emerge as experts in self-branding. On the whole, I’m sold
Review: Guggenheim Bilbao lets its collection speak for itself
The museum showcases some of its finest works in ‘The Art of Our Time’
Review: Russian Avant-Garde Theatre at the V&A
The modernist designs at the V&A have an air of optimism about them, but we all know how the story ends
Review: ‘Symphony of a Missing Room’ at the Royal Academy
Immersive performance art and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition? Surprisingly, it works…
Review: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, ‘The Strange City’ (Monumenta 2014)
The Kabakovs’ ‘Strange City’ at the Grand Palais isn’t completely alien
Review: John Piper at the Bohun Gallery
A small but ambitious exhibition of the British modernist’s varied work has opened in Oxfordshire
Affected Taste: William Kent at the V&A
How do you like your Georgians? William Kent’s designs come with a liberal coating of gilt
‘Diverse Maniere: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess’ at Sir John Soane’s Museum
The current Piranesi exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum raises interesting questions about original artworks and their reproductions
Art and Life at Kettle’s Yard
‘Art & Life’ is a touring exhibition, but Kettle’s Yard is clearly its spiritual home
Quiet Transformation: ‘A Dialogue with Nature’
The German and British Romantic landscapes at the Courtauld sing rather than shout of a new vision
Arcadia Outlined
‘A World of Private Mystery: John Craxton’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum celebrates the artist’s ‘unfashionably happy’ late paintings
Reflections on Glass
‘White Light/White Heat’ at the Wallace Collection and London College of Fashion reflects on glass as a contemporary medium
Do Come In
‘Immersive’ artwork such as Elmgreen & Dragset’s ‘Tomorrow’ at the V&A is touted as the 21st century’s spin on a gesamtkunstwerk, but has the hyperreal already become familiar?
Only Connect
His work at the Royal Academy strives for poetic significance, but does Bill Woodrow offer anything new?
Calling Time
‘The Show is Over’ at Gagosian Gallery, where painting’s elaborate deferrals of its death-scene extend like a multi-volume suicide note
Romantic Reconstruction
Alan Sorrell’s neo-Romantic work is an antidote to today’s conceptual art, and perfectly suited to Sir John Soane’s Museum
Darkness Visible
‘Paul Klee: Making Visible’ at Tate Modern is rigorous but incurably serious – is it the right setting for such complex and colourful work?
Frida y…
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera make awkward companions at a nonetheless important Paris exhibition
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The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?