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Barbara Hepworth: Within the Landscape
‘Barbara Hepworth: Within the Landscape’ at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal examines the sculptor’s artistic and personal identification with…
Review: ‘Fame and Friendship’ at Waddesdon Manor
A jewel box of an exhibition that opens up important questions about celebrity, patronage and sculpture
Cover Story: June Apollo
Alexander Pope seems to live on in Roubiliac’s magnificent portrait bust, as if the man and his mind somehow inhabited the marble
Review: ‘British Folk Art’ at Tate Britain
The charm and whimsy of ‘British Folk Art’ at Tate Britain isn’t at the expense of rigorous analysis
Gallery: ‘British And German Art After 1945’ at the Sprengel Museum Hannover
Some highlights from the upcoming exhibition
British Folk Art
This summer, Tate Britain will celebrate the diversity of British folk art, with an unprecedented display of objects that will…
Review: ‘Mondrian and Colour’ at Turner Contemporary
Piet Mondrian’s path to abstraction was a colourful one
Gallery: Hendrick Goltzius and Dutch Mannerist Printmaking
Highlights from the Städel Museum’s next exhibition
Gallery: Georges Seurat at the Kröller-Müller Museum
‘Le Chahut’ and ‘Le Cirque’, Seurat’s last two large figure pieces, are among the highlights in this new exhibition
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
Gallery: Highlights from ‘Mondrian and Colour’ at Turner Contemporary
Figurative and abstract highlights from the upcoming Mondrian exhibition in Margate
Review: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, ‘The Strange City’ (Monumenta 2014)
The Kabakovs’ ‘Strange City’ at the Grand Palais isn’t completely alien
Muse Reviews: 11 May
A round-up of the week’s reviews, including Rodin, John Piper, Yinka Shonibare and Joanna Hogg
Degas/Cassatt
Degas’ influence on Mary Cassatt is well documented, less so the way Cassatt shaped his artistic production. Focusing on the…
Gallery: Highlights from ‘Degas / Cassatt’
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art takes a closer look at Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt’s productive artistic relationship
Gallery: ‘Comics Unmasked’ at the British Library
A handful of the British comics currently on display at the British Library
Gallery: ‘To Egypt! The Travels of Max Slevogt and Paul Klee’
A gallery of highlights from the latest exhibition at the Albertinum, Dresden
Comics Unmasked
Art and Anarchy in the UK ‘Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy at the UK’ seeks to raise the profile and…
Muse Reviews: 27 April
A round-up of the week’s reviews: Hindu-Buddhist sculpture, Yelena Popova, Richard Wilson, and contemporary art in Azerbaijan
Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2014: Shortlist Announced
The Art Fund Museum of the Year 2014 shortlist has been announced
Lichtbilder
A history of photography The Staedel Museum is marking 175 years since the invention of photography with a display of…
Interview: Polly Bielecka discusses ‘Sculpture in the Home’ at Pangolin
In the 1940s and ’50s, a series of touring exhibitions brought modern British sculpture in from the cold
Highlights: ‘Somewhat Abstract’ at Nottingham Contemporary
Bridget Riley and Francis Bacon feature in this exhibition of work from the Arts Council Collection
The Week’s Muse: 21 June
The Venice Architecture Biennale, the Battle of Orgreave, digital catalogues, portrait busts and a critique of Richard Mosse… comment from the Muse Room