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Review: ‘British Art at War: Walter Sickert’ on BBC Four
Andrew Graham-Dixon gives an engaging account of the modern artist and marketeer. But what about the war?
Muse Reviews: 21 September
Great British artists in the limelight this week: ‘Late Turner’ at Tate; Christopher Dresser at the Fine Art Society; and Paul Nash on BBC Four
London in Paris: Gilbert & George at Thaddaeus Ropac
Will Gilbert and George’s Scapegoating Pictures have the same impact in Paris as in London?
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…
Review: ‘Jim Dine: A History of Communism’ at Alan Cristea Gallery
Dine turns Soviet-era lithographic stones into contemporary art
‘Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album’ at the Royal Academy, London
Hopper treads the line between documentary and art expertly
Review: ‘British Art at War: Paul Nash’ on BBC Four
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the work of Paul Nash, whose career was deeply affected by the two World Wars
Review: Christopher Dresser at the Fine Art Society
Overlooked for decades, Christopher Dresser is now recognised as one of the most influential figures in 19th-century design
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
Review: ‘That Obscure Object of Desire’ at Luxembourg and Dayan, NYC
Unfortunately these particular obscure objects make for a slightly incoherent show…
Muse Reviews: 14 September
Inedible gardens and Jasper Johns’s regrets…our round-up of recent reviews
Review: ‘Max Weber’ at Ben Uri Gallery, London
Why has the UK waited so long for an exhibition of this artist’s work?
Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets’ at the Courtauld Gallery
Lucian Freud in Francis Bacon’s studio through Jasper Johns’s eyes: a small but powerful show
The greatest hits of London cartography: ‘Mapping London’ at Oxo Tower Wharf
Daniel Crouch Rare Books’ engaging display of maps old and new
Art, or Play? Breaker’s Yard at Sutton House
Daniel Lobb’s installation for children is a nice idea, but what’s it actually for? And can you eat it?
Lookout: Folkestone Triennial turns the town into a gallery
Expect eco-friendly fish and chips, beach huts inspired by Hawksmoor, and crow’s nest hotels
Muse Reviews: 7 September
A round-up of the week’s reviews: including Kerry James Marshall, Al Jazeera’s Rebel Architecture and previews of Turner at Tate and Courbet at the Beyeler
Review: Al Jazeera’s Rebel Architecture
Al Jazeera’s ‘Rebel Architecture’ series challenges the ways in which we view the role of the architect
Review: ‘Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff’ at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Marshall tackles the history of slavery, race politics, black power or social emancipation in bold but ambiguous ways
Muse Reviews: 31 August
Jess, Robert Duncan and their circle; Charles Burchfield; Xavier Ribas; and young painters…
Aaron Curry and Andrew Brischler: the art of process
Two young artists argue for a return to paint and pencil
Review: Charles E Burchfield at the Brandywine River Museum
Burchfield’s fantastical watercolours deserve to be better known
Review: ‘Xavier Ribas: Nitrate’ at MACBA, Barcelona
Ribas’s work highlights the violence and arbitrariness of boundaries and frontiers
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