Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery review - naïve vulgarity and otherworldly onyx
Duds and gems in mixed show of paintings and sculptures
There are children screaming in a nearby playground. Their voices rise and fall, swell and drop. Interspersed silences fill with the sound of running, the movement and cacophony orchestrated by a boy who leads on the catch tone. It's simultaneously otherworldly and juvenile, adept and improvised – a fitting soundtrack to Anish Kapoor's latest exhibition at Lisson Gallery.
Sea Star: Sean Scully, National Gallery review - analysing past masters
The latest encounter between a living artist and the national collection
Dorothea Tanning, Tate Modern review – an absolute revelation
An artist with a unique voice eclipsed by her famous husband
Tate Modern’s retrospective of Dorothea Tanning is a revelation. Here the American artist is known as a latter day Surrealist, but as the show demonstrates, this is only part of the story. Tanning’s career spanned an impressive 70 years – she died in 2012 aged 101 – but as so often happens, she was eclipsed by her famous husband, German Surrealist Max Ernst.
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory review, Tate Modern - plenty but empty
A major retrospective of the French post-impressionist is huge, but unilluminating
“Slow looking” is the phrase du jour at Tate Modern, an enjoinder flatly contradicted by the extent of this exhibition, which in the history of the gallery’s supersized shows counts as a blow-out.
Nolan: Australia's Maverick Artist, BBC Four review – a lust for life in all its aspects
The gifted painter from Down Under who rocked the art world
Reckless, unstoppable, one step ahead of everyone else, a hell of a lot of fun, utterly charming, street smart – descriptions of the artist Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) poured out from colleagues, rivals, curators, art historians and dealers, not to mention friends and family, in this persuasive film.
Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns, National Gallery of Ireland review - experiments in Pont-Aven
Friendship and rivalry among the Post-Impressionists
In the autumn of 1892 Émile Bernard wrote home to his mother that, following the summer decampment to Pont-Aven of artists visiting from Paris and further afield, there remained "some artists here, two of them talented and copying each other.
'That brick red frock with flowers everywhere': painting Katherine Mansfield
Anne Estelle Rice painted the New Zealand writer 100 years ago, spinning a tale of love, friendship and artistic kinship
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One, Tate Britain review - all in the mind
Otto Dix’s prints at the heart of ambitious survey of British, French and German artists’ inter-war work
Not far into Aftermath, Tate Britain’s new exhibition looking at how the experience of World War One shaped artists working in its wake, hangs a group of photographs by Pierre Anthony-Thouret depicting the damage inflicted on Reims.
The New Royal Academy and Tacita Dean, Landscape review - a brave beginning to a new era
From an institution known for excellent exhibitions to a hub of learning and debate
This weekend the Royal Academy (R.A) celebrates its 250th anniversary with the opening of 6 Burlington Gardens (main picture), duly refurbished for the occasion. When it was dirty the Palladian facade felt coldly overbearing, but cleaning it has highlighted the bands of sandstone and brown marble columns that lend warmth to the Portland stone. Originally built in the garden of Burlington House as the HQ for the University of London, this Victorian edifice turns out to be rather handsome.