Reviews
How to unlock the Victoria and Albert Museum
There are some very strange objects on show at ‘All of This Belongs to You’. Does the ambitious exhibition succeed in opening up the collection?
The cosmopolitan culture of Deccan India comes to New York
The Met’s exhibition looks set to put Deccani art back on the map
In the Frame: National Gallery celebrates an overlooked art form
For many of us, frames are something of an afterthought, but it wasn’t always so
Muse Reviews: 12 April
Riotous Romans in Paris; the difficulty of Defining Beauty; getting back into Tracey Emin’s Bed
The difficulty of ‘Defining Beauty’
The British Museum’s celebration of the body in ancient Greek art is more complicated than you might imagine – and better for it
Art and/or Architecture in Somerset
Can you live in a sculpture? Is good architecture art? Who cares? And which exhibit stands out at Hauser & Wirth’s Architecture Season?
Powerful, humbling and relevant: Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ at MoMA
This important exhibition should be a wake-up call for today’s visitors
Roman Riot Club: ‘The Baroque Underworld’ draws crowds at the Petit Palais
Vice has always been a draw
Muse Reviews: 5 April
Christian Rosa’s ‘slacker abstraction’; Goya’s witches and old women; and John Skoog’s tribute to Hollywood’s golden age
Gleeful, savage and subversive: don’t miss Goya’s drawings at the Courtauld
Goya let his imagination run riot in his sketchbooks
‘Provisional painting’ or ‘slacker abstraction’? Christian Rosa at White Cube
Rosa’s work embodies a particularly nonchalant branch of contemporary culture
Shadowland: John Skoog’s tribute to cinema’s golden age
Faded cinemas and enigmatic landscapes hark back to Hollywood’s heyday at Pilar Corrias
A strong year for Art Basel in Hong Kong
ABHK is the youngest of Art Basel’s progeny, but it is no less breezily confident for that
Muse Reviews: 29 March
Moore at YSP; Salon du Dessin highlights; Basquiat in Ontario; a bigger and better Drawing Biennial; and Dryden Goodwin’s enigmatic film
Gift-giving: Lynda Benglis at the Hepworth Wakefield
It is satisfying to see Benglis finally given proper recognition in the UK
Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin
Dryden Goodwin’s enigmatic film grapples with history and identity
There’s more to Moore than his monumental sculptures
‘Back to A Land’ at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park looks at the finer points of Moore’s sculptural practice
‘Now’s the Time’: Basquiat’s work at the Art Gallery of Ontario is still relevant
Few artists have garnered as much mystique in life and death as Jean Michel Basquiat
TEFAF Treasures
There are hundreds of exceptional artworks adorning the stands at TEFAF Maastricht this year. Everyone will have their own favourites,…
Muse Reviews: 22 March
George Vasey recommends Raoul de Keyser’s work in Edinburgh; Vanessa Remington introduces the art of the garden at the Queen’s Gallery; and ‘Classicicity’ explores ancient and modern art in tandem
Raoul De Keyser at Inverleith House
De Keyser’s great talent is to keep oppositional ideas in the balance
A K Dolven explores Norwegian landscapes in Birmingham
Peder Balke’s sublime paintings of Norway off-set the contemporary artist’s own exploratory work
What not to miss during Asia Week New York
This may be hard to believe, but not all the best art is in Maastricht this week.
TEFAF Treasures
Personal favourites from Maastricht, including an ancient Egyptian fragment and an unfinished old master painting