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Aaron Curry and Andrew Brischler: the art of process
Two young artists argue for a return to paint and pencil
Jasper Sharp
39. Adjunct Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Vienna, Austria
What are we to make of posthumous art?
An exhibition of Garry Winogrand’s photography at the Metropolitan Museum includes many posthumous prints. Do they have a place there?
The Week’s Muse: 23 August
Bob and Roberta Smith stands up for art in schools; Alfredo Jaar interrupts the adverts in Times Square; and the utopian appeal of geometric art
Gallery: ‘Portraiture Now’ at the NPG Washington
A new exhibition contends that portraiture doesn’t reflect the self; it constructs it
Review: ‘Multiple Exposures: Jewellery and Photography’ at MAD New York
In focusing on recent innovations, this exhibition risks losing sight of some of the original allure of its subject
‘It’s a building that only reveals itself by experience’. Inside the Clark Art Institute
After its long-awaited redevelopment, the Clark has unveiled an impressive new building designed by Tadao Ando alongside refurbished galleries by Annabelle Selldorf
Review: ‘The Art and Science of Exploration’ at the Queen’s House
A new display of art from Captain Cook’s voyages is compelling, but doesn’t quite tell the whole story
Muse Reviews: 17 August
Perspectives on war: Marsden Hartley’s paintings from Berlin in WWI; and Mark Neville’s photographs and films from Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Gallery: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ at the Cantor Arts Center
Satan, sin and the underworld…selected highlights
Enigmas: Caroline Walker’s lithographs and paintings
The characters in Walker’s works are caught in moments of enigmatic significance, at once inconsequential and charged with possible implication
Apollo 40 Under 40: The Thinkers
Which curators, writers, academics and educators are steering public opinion about art?
Are art installations the new video games?
Playful, interactive, digitally-enhanced: is art straying closer to the video game than ever before?
Review: Mark Neville’s Helmand Work at the IWM London
Mark Neville’s films and photographs from Afghanistan reveal the strange banality of war
Gallery: ‘Landscape, abstracted’ at the MFA Boston
For centuries, painters have experimented with the landscape. Where will today’s artists venture next?
Review: ‘Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913–15’ at LACMA
After three formative years in Berlin, Hartley returned to the US at the forefront of the avant-garde
Gallery: ‘East of the Wallace Line’ at Yale University Art Gallery
Art from Indonesia and New Guinea goes on show at the Yale University Art Gallery
The Week’s Muse: 9 August
A look back over some of the recent news and comment from Apollo’s Muse Room
Stanley Spencer’s Masterpiece: The Sandham Memorial Chapel
Love him or hate him, Stanley Spencer’s First World War paintings at Burghclere will win you over
A good advert for American art? Art Everywhere in the US
Can art add sparkle to the USA’s advertising billboards?
The Hague’s Hidden Treasures: Prince William V’s Picture Gallery
Not all of the Mauritshuis’s treasures are actually in the Mauritshuis
Among the poppies: volunteering at the Tower of London’s war memorial
Paul Cummins’ red field of poppies has been planted by volunteers, and is still growing