Reviews
Lust, gin and grime: ‘Hogarth’s London’ at the Cartoon Museum
If Victorian London belongs to Dickens, the Georgian city is Hogarth’s
Impossible balance: Richard Serra’s sculptures at Gagosian Gallery
The complexity and integrity of Serra’s monumental work is mind-blowing
Review: Love, Lust and Longing in the Freud Museum
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Freud’s collection of antiquities is not for the easily abashed
The Musée Picasso reopens in Paris
It’s been a long and controversial refurbishment. Has it all been worth it?
A cloud of glass in the Bois de Boulogne: the Louis Vuitton Foundation
Despite Gehry’s dislike of the term, his building is a spectacle, as is the art
Review: Conrad Shawcross ‘The ADA Project’
Music, dancing robots, 19th-century algorithms: Shawcross’s latest project was ambitious, but was it worth it?
Muse Reviews: 2 November
Pierre Huyghe’s stange and beautiful work; Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’; and Schiele’s uneasy nudes
Review: Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum
Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female…
Review: ‘Pierre Huyghe: In. Border. Deep’ at Hauser & Wirth, London
Huyghe’s notoriously uncategorisable works are both strange and beautiful
‘Face to Face’: the Clifford Chance collection at Sir John Soane’s Museum
An 18th-century architect’s house is a strange place for a law firm to show off some modern prints…but it works
Review: Jane and Louise Wilson’s ‘Undead Sun’ at the Imperial War Museum
Undead Sun explores the First World War’s nascent mechanics of propaganda, aerial warfare and camouflage
An Aura of Unease: Egon Schiele at the Courtauld Gallery
In Schiele’s vision, to observe, or to have a body is to have a difficulty
Review: Guggenheim Bilbao lets its collection speak for itself
The museum showcases some of its finest works in ‘The Art of Our Time’
SPASIBO: Davide Monteleone’s photos from Chechnya
Monteleone focuses on an apparently shiny, happy new reality…Yet the Italian photographer is playing a sophisticated game
Review: Paula Rego’s powerful pastels at Marlborough Fine Art
Playful and daring, Rego’s pastels and watercolours are a surprise
Review: The Brueghel Dynasty meets contemporary art
We’re fond of the Brueghels because they are rooted in their own time; so it’s odd that this ‘conversation’ works
Review: ‘Rembrandt: The Late Works’ at the National Gallery, London
Self-scrutiny, experimentation, intimacy and contemplation characterise the master’s final years
Review: Haunting new work by Steve McQueen at Thomas Dane Gallery
McQueen’s elegiac new work asks how we can memorialise a life
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
Muse Reviews: 19 October
Matisse goes to New York, the British Library goes Gothic, and Sotheby’s goes to Chatsworth
Beyond Limits: Sotheby’s sculpture park at Chatsworth
It is not just collectors who enjoy the encounter with sculpture in the landscape. The public seems just as keen
Outside the tents: Frieze Sculpture Park
One source of respite from the surrounding art fair frenzy is the Frieze Sculpture Park
Paul McCarthy’s obscene art world
The paintings presented in Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth are invariably obscene. Painted in the artist’s trademark palette –…