Review
Thomas Dane exhibition in Naples explores the power and precarity of ceramics
Lynda Benglis and Magdalene Odundo join historical figures like Lucio Fontana in a group show that pushes at the limits of what clay can do
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Hollis Sigler at Andrew Kreps to James Turrell’s ode to Ad Reinhardt at Pace
The Big Review: Jasper Johns at the Whitney Museum of American Art
The New York incarnation of this two-venue retrospective of the veteran American artist has sublime moments, but needs a much more thorough edit
Let loose after lockdown: London’s best gallery shows
Plus, Idris Khan on his latest show and James Welling on an ancient Greek Kore
The Big Review—Working Together: the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
An important show reflects a New York collective’s chronicles of Black life amid pervasive discrimination in the 1960s and 1970s
The Big Review: Gauguin and the Impressionists at the Royal Academy of Arts
The London exhibition has many highlights, but viewing this long-planned show is unlike anyone could have envisaged before the coronavirus pandemic
Ready to see some art? The top exhibitions of the summer
Plus, the artist Hassan Hajjaj on a Dr Alimantado album cover
Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana show at the Prado is as much about biography as it is about the art
The Madrid exhibition compares the two artists who were successful in their time but whose reputations later waned
New documentary offers unvarnished view of Clyfford Still
Lifeline/Clyfford Still sheds light on the Abstract Expressionist who despised critics, condemned the work of his contemporaries, and was admired by many
The Big Review: William Blake at Tate Britain
We take an in-depth look at the London survey of the visionary’s work and round-up what the critics are saying
'The guardian of Vincent’s legacy': new biography details devoted life of Van Gogh's sister-in-law Jo Bonger
Bonger's encounter with Trotsky and her tireless effort to preserve the artist's work are explored in the new book by Hans Luijten
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Helen Beard's sexually fluid paintings to Helene Schjerfbeck's unique Nordic Modernism
A mini magnificence: Edouard Vuillard at Bath's Holburne Museum
Odd points of view and tense interior scenes feature in an exhibition of small, precious works from early in the artist's career
A family affair: three generations of Weenix showcased in two-volume magnum opus
The new book features newly discovered appendices, including the profligate Jan Baptist’s three-volume bankruptcy file
Book review | Recent archaeological finds on Keros bring new authoritative scholarship on Cycladic art
Excavation campaigns on the Greek island have raised questions about our knowledge of Cycladic art and culture
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From imperturbable colourful calm at White Cube Bermondsey to Mandy El-Sayegh's information overload at the Chisenhale Gallery
Hockney-Van Gogh exhibition is ‘a tame,though colourful, bit of fluff’
The British artist dominates the Van Gogh Museum’s dubious doubleheader, which offers little to connect the pair
#Menudetoo: naked bodies in the Renaissance explored at the Royal Academy of Arts and in three new publications
Examining the many meanings—and inanities—ascribed to the unclothed human body in Western art
Art as Healer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away
Gerhard Richter’s post-war coming of age is fictionalised on film
Skip the art history lesson—experience Picasso ‘intuitively’ at Musée d’Orsay's Blue and Rose blockbuster
The show promises a continuum in Picasso’s work, a gentle slide, rather than rigidly compartmentalised episodes
Book delves into the Rothschild collection of bizarre objects associated with death and dying
The collection was assembled by baroness Henri de Rothschild
First book on art collection of the draughtsman and cult figure Edward Gorey
Gorey inexplicably left his collection to the Wadsworth Atheneum
Otto Marseus van Schrieck: introducing the inventor of the 'forest-floor' still-life
This splendid book uncovers the Dutch painter who brought the lowliest creatures of the forest ecosystem to life
Prefab(ulous): the story of an 18th-century chapel made entirely in Rome for a church in Lisbon
This fascinating survey offers both detailed commentary and lavish illustrations
What debt does mid-century American abstract painting owe to Monet?
Exhibition in Paris attempts to draw connections between the Impressionist and Pollock, Rothko and friends—with mixed results
Telling us why and how: a groundbreaking study of Veronese’s techniques and paintings
These two books—very different in approach—analyse the process and works of the Italian Renaissance painter
Picture perfect: a 'sumptuous' book on Pre-Raphaelite stained glass
While its terminology is unsteady, the scholarship and production values of this sequel volume are exceptional
Thinking with pictures: how images were used for philosophical thinking in the Early Modern period
A rich and fascinating book on what can rightly be called the art of philosophy
A Käthe Kollwitz renaissance is under way (and about time, too)
A pair of publications shed new light on profoundly socially committed artist