The Big Review
The Big Review: Grayson Perry: Smash Hits at National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh ★★★★☆
The hugely popular English artist has, in this retrospective, set out his case as a chronicler of the British psyche
The Big Review: Gary Simmons: Public Enemy at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ★★★★★
A powerful retrospective of the New York-born artist that is all too timely in its examination of racism in American culture
The Big Review: Georg Baselitz: Naked Masters at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna ★★★★★
Bold pairings of paintings by the contemporary German artist with those of the Old Masters are both provocative and elegiac
The Big Review: Picasso Celebration at the Musée National Picasso-Paris ★☆☆☆☆
A baffling show in which Pablo Picasso’s works become accessories for the British designer Paul Smith’s decorations
The Big Review: Peter Doig at the Courtauld Gallery in London ★★★☆☆
Oblique views of London, Caribbean memories and poetic etchings highlight the itinerant artist’s flair for reinvention
The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★
A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph
The Big Review: Max Beckmann at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich ★★★★★
The show takes a "maniacal and majestic" triptych as its departure point, before using a skilful combination of works and personal effects to provide a deep understanding of the German artist
The Big Review: Vittore Carpaccio at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC ★★★★☆
The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.
The Big Review: Just Above Midtown at the Museum of Modern Art ★★★★★
New York's Just Above Midtown gallery launched the careers of numerous artists of colour, and this five-star exhibition about it is a celebration of the power of art
The Big Review: Alice Neel at the Centre Pompidou ★★★★★
While her New York peers were fighting over the future of abstraction, Alice Neel was urgently capturing life
The Big Review: Milton Avery at the Royal Academy of Arts in London ★★★★☆
The American artist was a brilliant colourist who pushed figuration to its limits but never went the way of “the abstract boys”. Plus, what the other critics said about the show
The sitcom as social critique: Martine Syms foregrounds Black banality in major Chicago exhibition
The Los Angeles artist’s exploration of the Black experience in the US can be poignant, humorous and unsettling, as evidenced in her solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Big Review: the Summer Exhibition 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
The climate theme of this year’s exhibition rings hollow
The Big Review: Fugues in Colour at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris
An intoxicating summer exhibition focuses on five abstract artists—Megan Rooney, Sam Gilliam, Steven Parrino, Niele Toroni and Katharina Grosse. But the chromatic emphasis denies broader interpretations of their work
The Big Review: Donatello in Florence
This unrepeatable show, spread across the Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, reflects the Florentine master’s journey from late Gothic elegance to classical sensuality
The Big Review: Postwar Modern—New Art in Britain 1945-1965 at Barbican Gallery
A show shaped by refugees and immigrants who made new lives on British shores has a war-stained resonance with today
The Big Review: Faith Ringgold at the New Museum
Each work in the Harlem-born artist’s biggest retrospective to date deserves equal attention
The Big Review: 'Allison Katz: Artery' at Camden Arts Centre, London
The Canadian artist’s paintings are full of puns and wordplay, but also possess a bodily power
The Big Review: 'Georg Baselitz—The Retrospective' at the Centre Pompidou in Paris
The German painter has made a clear mark with his brutal expression and upended motifs. But what is his legacy?
The Big Review: Michael Armitage at the Royal Academy of Arts
Probing the legacies of colonialism, Armitage's seductive paintings on East African bark cloth root themselves in a non-European Modernist tradition
The Big Review: Kaws at the Brooklyn Museum
He is a global brand, but can a museum show lend Brian Donnelly’s art any credibility?
The Big Review: Goya's Graphic Imagination at the Met
This urgent and timely show of the Spanish master's works on paper illuminates the artist’s dim view of humanity and his extraordinary imagination
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
The Big Review: Raphael at the Scuderie del Quirinale
The stimulating show in Rome tells the life story of one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance—but in reverse
The Big Review: Andy Warhol at Tate Modern
Can yet another Warhol retrospective tell us anything new about the Pop Art icon?
The big review: Edward Hopper at the Fondation Beyeler
The Basel exhibition on the painter's landscapes takes a fresh look at the American icon
The Big Review: Kent Monkman at the Met
The latest commission for the Met's Great Hall continues the New York institution's upending of the colonial-settler narrative of American history
The Big Review: Troy at the British Museum
With an impressive range of objects, this show evokes the eternal power of the greatest stories ever told
The Big Review: Leonardo at the Louvre
This once in a lifetime retrospective has a freshness and coherence which appeals to public and scholar alike