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Sculpture Victorious
This exhibition explores how and why sculpture proliferated in the Victorian era. Expect rare and impressive objects, images of power, and a…
J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free
This is the first major survey of Turner’s late period, dating from 1835 to 1851. Among the 150 works on…
Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840–60
The salted paper print was an early form of photograph with a distinctive textured finish. Despite being pioneered in Britain, the short-lived medium has…
Muse Reviews: 22 February
Recent exhibition reviews and previews; from sultans, to Sturtevant, to salted paper prints…
Victorian Revivals
Has London ever had such a thirst for Victorian art? A feature from the February issue of Apollo
The Lady Vanishes: ‘Madame Cézanne’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
No pairing of artist and muse was more complicated, ambivalent, or more richly productive
Pure abstraction: ‘Sotto Voce’ and the appeal of the abstract white relief
London’s Dominique Lévy Gallery looks again at the 20th-century trend
Shatter Rupture Break
A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago reveals how various artists turned repeatedly to the idea of fragmentation,…
Review: Agostino Bonalumi at Mazzoleni Art, London
Bonalumi was a pivotal figure in post-war Italian abstraction; finally he’s getting the attention he deserves
Walter Liedtke: 1945–2015
The curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was killed in the Metro-North Valhalla train crash on Tuesday
Honesty or artifice? Self-portraits at Turner Contemporary
Female artists are well represented in this show; a deliberate strategy that prompts a more critical questioning of the genre
Muse Reviews: 1 February
Flesh and sex – the legacies of Rubens and Sade; two views of the 20th century’s torn and tattered art; and the story of Lancashire’s philanthropic industrialists
Jenny Saville rethinks the ‘Rubenesque’ at the Royal Academy
‘La Peregrina’ is like a dip in icy water after Rubens’ opulent works
Muse Reviews: 25 January
The Hudson River School at LACMA; self-portraits at Turner Contemporary; Conscience & Conflict at Pallant House; Poliakoff at Timothy Taylor
Rubens and His Legacy
The impact of Rubens reaches far beyond his immediate Dutch and Flemish followers. This show examines his oeuvre and legacy, and features…
Muse Reviews: 18 January
‘Unseen’ at the Courtauld Gallery; Blake at the Ashmolean; Moroni at the Royal Academy; and sculptors’ drawings in Boston
Unknown Dimensions: ‘Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy’
An exhibition of drawings by Renaissance sculptors provides valuable insights into both mediums
Letter: December Apollo
The Rijkmuseum’s new Philips Wing has recently opened with an exhibition of modern photography
The Way of All Flesh: Berlinde de Bruyckere
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?
‘AZIMUT/H’ at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
In 1959 a flash of activity illuminated Milan’s already vibrant artistic scene
Odd Volumes
Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection A student-curated exhibition looks at how books have been variously transformed into, or…
El Greco in New York
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco, the Met will display nine of the artist’s paintings…
Review: Witches and Wicked Bodies at the British Museum
Nothing stirs the anxieties of Western civilisation like the unnaturally powerful female…
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London’s Italian art invasion
An extraordinary quantity of post-war Italian art has been exhibited, sold and written about this year. What’s behind the rich pickings?