Reviews
Review: Kenneth Clark at Tate Britain
It won’t pull in the crowds, but this niche exhibition rewards those who do visit
Review: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy at the Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum celebrates what is arguably England’s most lyrical and seductive contribution to the fine arts in this focused show
Review: Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow at the New Art Centre
Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon’s collaborative glass sculptures are interestingly out of place in the Wiltshire countryside
Review: Tate’s ‘Matisse Live’
It was an interesting broadcast, but Tate’s tour around its Matisse show gained little from being ‘live’
Review: Baccio Bandinelli at the Bargello
Baccio Bandinelli is arguably the least loved major artist of the Renaissance. This is the ideal opportunity to reconsider his achievement
Review: Richard Long at Lisson Gallery
Richard Long continues to tread his own well-worn path, with a few ill-advised Romantic detours, in his latest London show
Review: ‘Phyllida Barlow: Fifty Years of Drawings’ at Hauser & Wirth
Phyllida Barlow’s drawings are every bit as good as her sculptures
Review: ‘Mondrian and Colour’ at Turner Contemporary
Piet Mondrian’s path to abstraction was a colourful one
Review: ‘Symphony of a Missing Room’ at the Royal Academy
Immersive performance art and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition? Surprisingly, it works…
Rothko colours in the US east coast
Rothko’s works have popped up at auction, in Pace gallery and, later this year, at the Harvard Art Museums
Carving a space: the Boros Collection bunker in Berlin
Housed in an old Nazi bunker, the Boros Collection makes a feature of its hard-won gallery spaces
Review: The Fifth Prix Pictet
The Prix Pictet is a prize for art with an argument, and this year’s shortlist is as strong as ever
Review: Bill Viola’s ‘Martyrs’ at St Paul’s Cathedral
‘Martyrs’ is a beautiful series of videos, but it’s overshadowed by Wren’s magnificent architecture
Review: Ben Johnson ‘Time Past Time Present’ at Alan Cristea Gallery
Time stops in Ben Johnson’s intricate paintings of empty architectural interiors
Homecoming: Sergio Larrain’s photographs on display in Chile
Larrain’s powerful work hasn’t been on display in his home country since the 1960s
Review: ‘The Power of the Sea’ at the Royal West of England Academy
Interest in maritime art ebbs and flows, but it seems that we have hit a new wave
Review: Tania Kovats’ bottled oceans at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Oceans’ is a sophisticated response to a multitudinous, powerful subject
Muse Reviews: 18 May
A round-up of the week’s reviews from Paris, Berlin, London and New York
Review: Artists’ Scrapbooks at the ICA, London
The ICA’s Reading Room was put to good use recently with an exhibition of creative scrapbooks
Review: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, ‘The Strange City’ (Monumenta 2014)
The Kabakovs’ ‘Strange City’ at the Grand Palais isn’t completely alien
Hollow memorials? the problem with artists’ houses
A new installation mythologises Van Gogh’s old apartment in London: but such properties are often disappointing